Nethra* was a school friend. When I shook the small-town dust off my Batas and went away to a big-city college, we naturally lost touch. Five years later, a mutual friend called. “Did you hear? She passed away.” Within a few hours, my Facebook timeline was flooded with posts from her wall. Friends and cousins…
If tech clairvoyants and futuristic movies are to be believed, paper money is on its way out. In its stead, digital money will become the preferred choice for all financial transactions in the not-too-distant future. Supporting the digital wave is a host of new digital offerings promising ‘anytime and anywhere’ access to your money and…
COSMOS monitors online attendance of teachers and students in schools, which are tracked on administrative website, mobile app and tablets of COSMOS through biometric device. For this biometric devices are installed in several schools and a target has been set to install them in all 2054 government schools of Balrampur district to monitor the regularity…
Parliamentary secretary agriculture and chairman NSAMB Dr. Benjongliba Aier has stressed on usage of fertilizers, saying until this was given due importance productivity would go down and the “Vision 2025: Food for all” might not be achieved. Addressing the review meeting of the department of Agriculture at the conference hall, directorate of the Agriculture here…
The Delhi government has been working towards encouraging use of m-governance and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red-tapism from the system, stated Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Government of NCT of Delhi, while addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do Business’ organized by FICCI. Sisodia assured…
Plastic Aadhaar cards will be issued at the e-governance service centres functioning at taluk offices in the district. Voters who want to get the plastic card can visit these centres from 9.45 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. during working days. Collector S. Palanisamy inaugurated the issue of plastic Aadhaar cards to voters at the Taluk Office…
You are sitting in your cubicle busy working on a client proposal that you need to discuss with your boss in the evening. A cellphone ring interrupts your train of thought. The person in the next cubicle answers the phone in a loud voice forgetting that nearly everything he says can be heard from 10…
Irked after a lawyer attached copies of the personal diary of an 11-year-old in the documents submitted in a custody dispute case, the Delhi High Court has issued directions to protect the privacy of children in custody and matrimonial disputes. The court of Justice S Muralidhar, in its order issued on Thursday, noted that there…
Google must respect the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ court ruling on all its sites, not just those it says target EU countries, the French data protection authority has ruled, giving the company 15 days to comply. The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) ordered Google to remove the affected search results…
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), a unit under the department of telecommunications (DoT), has begun technical and operational testing of its servers, linked to the servers of mobile operators. Once in operation, it would enable security agencies to tap phones, intercept and monitor calls without keeping telcos in the loop. However, the requisite…