Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India plan could get delayed with the Department of Telecom (DoT) set to miss the deadline to connect 50,000 gram panchayats through an optical fibre cable network. The broadband network in these gram panchayats was supposed to be completed by March 31, but at the current pace of laying cable,…
India has one of the largest and fastest growing populations of Internet users in the world, which is estimated to be around 190 million as of June 2014 and growing rapidly. India already has the third largest Internet population in the world today, after China with 620 million and the US with 275 million. Read…
With the India-U.S. Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies (WG-ICT) meeting in Washington D.C. a week ago, the Internet is finally at the front and centre of the National Democratic Alliance government’s foreign policy. The WG-ICT was set up in 2005, following Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to the U.S.
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C Ravi Varma assumed charge as DCP of the crimes and detective department of the Hyderabad City Police. The position was previously held by G Pala Raju, who has been transferred to Andhra Pradesh. Varma has earlier worked as the Superintendent of Police, Vigilance and Enforcement of the erstwhile Government of Andhra Pradesh.
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Revealing your password or debit card pin can wipe off your bank account. This was the lesson learned by a innocent housewife today. Kamla Upadhyay, wife of a retired bureaucrat from Uttarkhand got a phone call few days ago, caller told her that her debit card is going to be blocked in few days so…
Singapore is gearing up for a crackdown on cybercrime with the launch of a central agency and the appointment of a minister in charge of cybersecurity, the government said, as the wealthy city-state grapples with a rise in online crime. In recent years, Singapore has struggled to combat cybercriminals, who have committed offences including stealing…
A Chinese official says that “harmful information” must be managed following reports that China is blocking VPN services that let users access censored online content. Wen Ku, director of telecoms development at the Ministry of Industry and Information, declined to elaborate on what “harmful” meant and did not respond directly to the reports over the…
We’ve known for a long time that federal authorities have a lot of license plate readers at their disposal, some of which they surely use for nefarious purposes. However, new details have emerged that show exactly how nefarious those purposes are. Does secretly spying on millions of Americans and seizing property sound nefarious enough to care?
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Consumer durables company Panasonic, in partnership with Reliance Communications, launched Cloud Video Intelli-Surveillance solution for Indian enterprises. The solution will combine Panasonic’s expertise in surveillance cameras and video analytics with Reliance’s countrywide network and data centre infrastructure.
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It will take another two days to restart the two suspended Agra development authority (ADA) websites which were hacked on Sunday allegedly by a Moroccan hacker. The private firm, responsible for the maintenance of the websites, has reportedly asked ADA permission for redesigning the sites as they have not been reviewed since their launch. Read…