Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2015 for India in 8 slides

Mary Meeker’s legendary annual Internet Trends report is here. For her 2015 report, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers executive has focused separately on India and China as the two leading Internet markets. Meeker fancies India for its unique mobile Internet dominated ecosystem and highlights three key areas – smartphones, global apps, and mobile e-commerce…

Khushi Baby: A High-Tech Way to Track Infant Health

It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world. “Appreciating the cultural nuances is extremely important when attempting to propose an intervention…

AP CM launches Meekosam Portal

Looking for a platform to report your grievances to the government? Here’s a portal that will allow you to file grievances instantly. www.meekosam.ap.gov.in, launched by Chief Minister Sri N. Chandrababu Naidu today, will be a platform where you can report about local problems, give suggestions and post related photographs/documents. The portal will record your grievance…

Agriculture specific mobile applications for farmers to be introduced soon by the govt

The Union Government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile applications to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development. “A large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to the farmer…

Fulfill international obligations and respect human rights: EU Official to India

Occupying nations have to fulfill the international obligations and respect the human rights, this was stated by Silvio Gonzato Director, Human Rights and Democracy, European External Action Service (EEAS) responding the question, about the massive abuses of rights by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir, raised by Abdul Latif Bhat, Director Kashmir.Foundation, who participated in an…

Minister’s pat for Kannur district panchayat

The developmental activities of the LDF-ruled Kannur district panchayat that serve the people cutting across political lines are exemplary and can be emulated by other district panchayats, Rural Development Minister K.C. Joseph has said. Inaugurating the Development Centre of the district panchayat here on Tuesday, he said the Development Centre was a means for the…