Tokyo: Information technology ministers of the G7 countries, during a meeting in Japan on Saturday, agreed to tackle the digital divide by bringing internet access to more people, and pushing for policies free of political censorship. The plan set out by the ministers of the G7 countries – Japan, the US, Germany, Britain, France, Canada…
Washington: Religious freedom in India was on a “negative trajectory” in 2015 as religious tolerance “deteriorated” and religious freedom violations “increased”, a US report on international religious freedom said on Tuesday. In its annual report, the Congress-mandated US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) asked the Indian government to publicly rebuke officials and religious leaders…
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A tablet-based application that helps to identify some of the poorest girls in eastern India has the potential to prevent human trafficking, early marriage and child labor, according to a charity which has developed the app. The GPower, or Girl Power, app developed by Accenture Labs and the charity Child…
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of people in southern India took to the streets on Tuesday to demand a fast investigation into the rape, murder and mutilation of a woman whose death has drawn comparisons with a 2012 gang rape that forced a change to the law. Indian police are looking for a…
Indore : By the end of this year, people of Indore district, particularly those living in panchayats, would be able to get high-speed internet and online services under e-Governance as laying of optical fiber cable (OFC) is going on at full tilt. In future, all 170 services, scheduled to be delivered online under e-Governance would…
For schoolchildren, summer may be synonymous with fun. However, it doesn’t bring cheer to all. The vacation season also sees a spurt in child marriages. They are not restricted to the bastion of backwardness that north Karnataka is but are also rampant in IT City Bengaluru. According to Anita Shivakumar, chairperson of the Child Welfare…
Pakistan’s snooping agency ISI is spying on Indian security forces using malwares through mobile gaming and music applications such as Top Gun, mpjunkie, vdjunky, talking frog, the government said on Tuesday. Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state for home affairs, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary also said Pakistan’s spy agency was making efforts…