Alleging that Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai’s deposition before a British parliamentary committee would have been “prejudicial to national interest”, the home ministry has in an affidavit before the Delhi high court attacked the practice of western countries issuing annual reports of their assessment of human rights violations in other countries.
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Odisha Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance in killing of a RTI activist Ganesh Chandra Panda in Berhmpur in last December. The commission has asked the Superintendent of Police of Ganjam District to file a report within four weeks. Commission’s order came to the response of a complaint filed by rights activist Akhand. Last December,…
The $146 billion Indian IT industry has navigated the ever-changing world of technology with remarkable alacrity and is now gearing up for the next wave from which a lot many things digital are expected. This time, however, it might be a lot more different as the momentum will be driven not just by large Indian…
The Narendra Modi government plans to leverage its flagship Jan Dhan Yojana (JDY) as well as the Aadhaar cards issuance programme to make India a ‘less-cash’ economy on a similar ‘mission mode’ with clearly defined outcomes and timelines.
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Introduction of tax holidays will help new-age digital companies and entrepreneurs expand their business and provide growth impetus to the fledgling industry, IAMAI said on Sunday. “The software and ITeS industry, which is among the most visible sectors in India today, had benefitted significantly from the fiscal support provided by the government in the form…
In this era of the all-pervasive cloud, it’s easy to assume that the data we store will somehow be preserved forever. The only thing to fret about from a posterity perspective, we might think, is the analog information from days gone by — all the stuff on papers, tapes and other pre-digital formats that haven’t…
UK doctors have stored 1,600 beating human hearts in digital form on a computer to better understand the relationship between people’s genes and heart disease. Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Sciences Centre at Hammersmith Hospital are scanning detailed 3D videos of the hearts of 1,600 patients and collecting genetic information from each volunteer.…
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expressed its concern over the growing rate of cyber crimes which are specifically targeting the financial institutions and asked corporate to be proactive about their security.
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A Cyber criminal, who is on the Interpol and the FBI’s most wanted list and was involved in defrauding several companies and individuals of over $50 million, was arrested today from Pakistan’s biggest city.
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