By exposing the names and addresses of foreign relatives, the cyber theft of private information on US security clearance holders by hackers linked to China will complicate the deployment and promotion of American intelligence professionals with special language skills and diverse backgrounds, current and former US officials say. Officials fear that China will seek to…
Minister for Information Technology, Youth Services and Sports Moulvi Imran Raza Ansari has said that significant progress in the field of core IT infrastructure has been made, adding that State Data Centre is fully functional. He said 5 State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) services have already been launched and touched the mandated number (1109) of…
The excise and taxation department of UT administration has come up with e-registration for the taxpayer identification number (TIN) under the Value Added Tax and Central Sales Tax Act. It is part of the Commercial Tax-Mission Mode Project under the aegis of the Central government for efficient delivery of services to the business community. On…
After having worked as a labourer at a construction site and in agriculture fields, life of two girls from a rural area in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh took a major turn when a common service centre owner and software professional Tanuja Raichuria picked them up to work for an e-governance project at Common Service Center…
There were days when people used to write to ministers talking about their grievances and were responded back which later faded. Now, our tech-savvy Prime Minister is bringing those old times back by ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’. Previous governments have tried incorporating e-governance but all they could manage was hollow promises which were never fructified.…
He says his characters sometimes surprise him, exert influence, like the created binding the creator. Unassuming and gentle Amitav Ghosh on Thursday spoke about how history fascinated him, how relating everything to Vedas could distort their original spirit and how the state was incapable of ensuring freedom of expression. The prolific author was in the…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns “FOLLOW-UP OF RECOMMENDATIONS: INDIA” The Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN (CSCHR) presents a summary of the salient features of the follow-up report of the Special Rapporteur (SR) on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, which…
YouTube announced plans on Thursday for a “newswire” of eyewitness videos and a separate project on videos related to social justice and human rights. In partnership with the social news group Storyful, the YouTube Newswire will be “a curated feed of the most newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day, which have been verified by Storyful’s…
In Plato’s Republic, the Greek philosopher writes of the Ring of Gyges, a magical ring that renders the wearer invisible and thus allows him to perform any action without being discovered. In such a situation, asks Plato, why would the wearer still act morally? Conclusion: morality is only a social construct that evaporates once there…
D’Ocracy D.E.M., beloved husband of T.Ruth, loving father of L.I.Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope, Justice, expired on June 26”, read an obituary in The Times of India’s Bombay edition. It was late (very late) June, 1975. A few nights before, late on 25 June, a few minutes before midnight, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed imposed a…