Reporters without Borders reports a slight drop in the number of murdered journalists this year, largely due to fewer deaths in countries ‘at peace’ ‘Rarely have reporters been murdered with such a barbaric sense of propaganda, shocking the entire world,’ said Reporters Without Borders in their annual report released on Tuesday. Paris: Attacks on journalists…
2014 saw a rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits, says a report from Hoot’s Free Speech Hub The state of free speech in India remains a cause for concern judging by the rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits, the…
Maharashtra is the only state to follow the E-Governance in Revenue department helping the citizens to have Search of the Title for the Property, which they can find in minutes of time, said the Settlement and Land records Commissioner of Maharashtra Mr. Chandra Kant Dalvi here today. Talking to UNI Mr. Dalvi said that to…
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, said here today that Rs. 18000 crore worth investments proposals have been received till now for the Digital India Programme, of which 4000 crore worth have been approved and more are in the pipeline. Speaking at the session on ‘The role of ICT and…
The Ministry of HRD is presently implementing the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to leverage the potential of ICT, in teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in Higher Education Institutions in any time anywhere mode. Under the Mission, more than 700 courses in various disciplines…
Slapping terror charges, without compelling evidence, for expressing ideological beliefs in 140 characters on the Internet was uncalled for The arrest of 24-year-old Mehdi Masroor Biswas for posting tweets sympathetic to the Islamic State(ISIS) raises some concerns. Biswas became a victim of his Twitter handle’s (@shamiwitness) popularity, which he operated anonymously until UK-based Channel 4 outed…
Every marketer and ad agency knows that in order to engage with a mass Indian audience ads need to be translated into local languages. At least seven languages form a part of a pan-Indian media plan – Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada – and more, if specific states become important to a…
Mobile technologies are changing the way governments work on domestic policy priorities The emergence of new media technologies and social communication tools has replaced the age-old existing legacy systems, transforming the way we live and think. From a business point of view, technologies such as cloud, virtualisation and consumerisation of IT are a few trends…
National Digital Literacy Mission was launched in Dimapur by Parliamentary Secretary, Information & Communication Technical Education, Science and Technology and Taxes, Tovihoto Ayemi. Speaking on the occasion, he informed that the Department of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India has recently approved the Scheme for IT mass literacy to train about 10 lakh person…
When Lalu Prasad dismissed information technology with his ” yeh IT-yt kya hota hai” ridicule in the early 2000s, little could he imagine how the future would turn its back on Bihar. The state’s IT prospects took a beating in the decade and half that followed Lalu’s derision. Infotech firms looking at the east gave Bihar…