NEW DELHI: India is poised to become the world’s leading market for Cloud, and for US software major Oracle, Cloud is a force-multiplier that the country must embrace to leapfrog into the digital era, a top company executive has said. India is uniquely positioned to benefit from Cloud-based solutions for three reasons. First, there are…
Indian government, assisted by Internet service providers, has just issued a new warning to those who visit forbidden websites in India: the offenders may get a three-year jail sentence plus a fine of Rs 3 lakh ($4,465 USD). If the warning starts to be actually employed to punish the offenders, almost every Internet user in…
A policy or a law has no utility unless it is implemented. Thanks to the sluggish execution, the national cyber security policy (NCSP), aimed at building a secure and resilient cyber space to ensure economic stability and strengthen national security, has been reduced to a mere 10-page government document. Unveiled on July 2, 2013 by…
Internet connectivity is one of the biggest challenges facing the country’s youngest bank, Bandhan Bank Ltd, as it opens new branches across states, Chandra Sekhar Ghosh Founder, Managing Director and CEO said.
Previous attempts by the tech giant to provide the public with internet access were stopped in their tracks. In February India’s telecoms regulator blocked Facebook’s Free Basics internet service app, ruling in favour of net neutrality protestors.
India, the largest democracy in the world that houses 1.25 billion, is to remain the fastest growing market with already 330 million internet users as of 2015. Rural areas will provide with estimated 75 pc new users by 2020, who are expected to consume data in local languages.
In the recent times, there has been an increase in violence against women in India. In a country where women are worshipped as Goddesses, hundreds and thousands of women are being ill-treated every day. Violence against women and children is being manifested in various forms – physical, economic, sexual and psychological – cutting across culture…
New Delhi, August 22: Union Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi is most popular as the poster-child for Animal Rights issues in India. And thus, it’s no wonder that when the idea is to ridicule animal right activists of India and to convey a message that animal rights don’t supersede human rights, she…
BJP President Amit Shah said on Sunday nationalism was being questioned in the name of freedom of expression and “propaganda” against nationalism could not be considered as freedom of speech. “It has become a fashion for some people nowadays to question nationalism. This is being done in different places and new theories are being planted.…
A senior Indian minister appeared Sunday to support police in a row over free speech that saw Amnesty slapped with sedition charges for an event about the disputed Kashmir region. Police in the southern city of Bangalore filed the initial charges last week following complaints that slogans on independence for the troubled region had been…