Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has offered to collaborate with the Centre in providing last-mile internet connectivity, especially through Wi-Fi technology.
He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad to explore the company’s participation in the Centre’s ‘Digital India’ programme.
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In a major initiative that may revolutionize the general education sector, Kerala is all set to introduce multi-media “Digital Collaborative Textbooks” (DCT), the first of its kind in the country, in government schools. This digital textbook will comprise information contributed by persons around the globe in audio or video formats, besides the scanned soft-copy of…
Home minister Gulabchand Kataria and social justice and empowerment minister Arun Chaturvedi are among those who received threatening the emails Jaipur: Sixteen ministers in Rajasthan have received threatening messages on their official email IDs purportedly sent by terrorists group Indian Mujahideen prompting the police to further strengthen the security arrangements in the state. Home minister…
As social media has emerged as a key communications tool, the External Affairs Ministry has come on the top among various ministries and government departments in terms of its presence on digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+. On the micro-blogging site Twitter, Indian Diplomacy with its @IndianDiplomacy handle (the official account of India’s Public Diplomacy,…
Internet giant Google is in talks with the IT Ministry to roll out optical fibre-based broadband services as part of the Digital India programme. Google plans to roll out a fibre network in a small area as a showcase project. According to top officials in the IT Ministry, the discussions are at an initial stage.…
Prime minister Narendra Modi proposes to provide a clutch of citizens’ services electronically as part of his government’s efforts to put in place “an effective, accountable and transparent” administration. Committing his regime to ‘good governance’, Modi said his team would make governance simple and effective in a phased manner without putting a huge burden on…
Government plans to have all Cabinet files including Cabinet notes in electronic format from next month. This is being seen as a major step towards creating paperless offices across the board at Centre. “The government’s intention is that from January onwards, we must have all Cabinet files in an e-format. Normally, hard copies of bulky…
With Tamil Nadu government’s push for increased e-governance in the state, Tamil Nadu has secured third slot from last year’s eighth in e-transactions across the country this year. The state also plans to add more than 300 public services to electronic mode soon and also launch 600 additional common services centres in the state. Gujarat…
The NDA government is committed to improve tele-density, voice and broadband penetration and ensure quality of services to both rural and urban areas to achieve the vision of Digital India, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here Thursday. “The focus of the department of telecommunications is to create the communication infrastructure for enabling e-services like e-banking, e-commerce,…
To mark the Good Governance Day, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today announced that the limit of postal life insurance has been raised from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, besides launching one-month rental-free MTNL broadband and landline combo plans on new bookings. The 21 schemes he announced also included support for international patent…