A workers’ movement that started in Punjab’s Malwa region last year has started to reach out to the fairer sex too. Women brick kiln workers from across the state will assemble at Bathinda on April 22 as part of the first convention in the state that would be devoted to women workers from the unorganized…
It took me some time to trust the cloud. Growing up with digital technologies that were neither resilient nor reliable — a floppy drive could go kaput without you having done anything, a CD once scratched could not be recovered, hard drives malfunctioned and it was a given that once every few months your PC…
India is currently the world’s second-largest telecommunications market, in terms of subscribers. Voice services have seen consistent growth over the past decade—fuelled by a service that addressed the need of Indians to talk to each other. While they continue to talk, the Indian subscriber is now demanding quality access to the internet for various information…
The country needs programmes for increasing digital literacy in rural areas, and just providing internet access would not be enough, claims a study conducted by a professor of Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedbad (IIMA). The study, titled, ‘Factors Influencing Outcome Expectations and Self-Efficacy in Driving Internet Use in Rural India’, by Rekha Jain, professor of…
If we look at the present scenario, the world is being raised on the internet. No one could have said it better when Eric Schmidt said, “Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” And it is this anarchy which…
TRANSPARENCY:Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav launching computerisation of FIRs at Tallakulam station in the city on Friday.— Photo: G. Moorthy As part of the State-wide initiative to improve transparency and accessibility Computerised registration of First Information Reports (FIRs) was launched in all police stations in Madurai City and Rural police limits on Friday as…
Unnao (UP): Rooting for Muslim women’s right to enter mosques, firebrand BJP leader Sakshi Maharaj on Saturday asked the judiciary to mediate so that they could get their due. “Muslim women should also have right to enter mosques as the Hindu women have the right to enter and perform puja in temples”, Sakshi Maharaj, local…
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Saturday decided to depute its six women members to create awareness about rights of Muslim women enshrined in the Shariyat (Islamic jurisprudence). The Board members, who met at Nadwatul Ulama on Saturday, also directed women members to ensure concerns related to women’s rights as per Shariyat were…
JAMMU: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in an RTI reply has admitted that it has received over 5,000 complaints from mobile subscribers across the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In an RTI reply to the information seeker RTI activist Raman Sharma the DGM(CM) cum Public Information Officer of the BSNL informed that during 11 months’…
In a communiqué issued at the end of the 13th summit of the OIC at Istanbul, the bloc comprising 57 Islamic nations expressed concern over “indiscriminate use of force and gross violations of human rights” by security forces of India in Kashmir. India rejected all references to Kashmir in the final communiqué of the OIC…