Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday launched e-registration of properties in all the 130 tehsil and sub-tehsils of the State to mark the completion of 100 days of his government. Declaring that he wanted to provide a corruption-free governance, Mr Khattar said already a CM window has been opened in every district headquarters…
The Indian Army plans to use e-governance extensively and has an formidable plan for a cloud database which may retailer all unclassified details about soldiers. “Things like certificates and different details about soldiers may be saved in a cloud. This will probably be accessible from anywhere and save time,” military sources stated Tuesday. This is…
As part of its e-governance initiatives, the Andhra Pradesh government would soon put in place an IT-enabled platform to make the entire system of payments and disbursements online. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, known for his IT-savvy ways, held a meeting with finance department officials on the plan to implement the Comprehensive Financial Management System…
Indian Army is aiming for a highly encrypted Cloud storage system for itself, similar to that of Google, to store data as it is working towards becoming a “100 per cent digital” force. Army sources, however, said the infrastructure for a Cloud storage system already exists but has not been made operational because of the…
The Centre is all set to facilitate efficiency in governance through a series of programmes that include digital literacy and electronic delivery of services, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative. “Online on-demand digital signature is being developed, which has a very transformational architecture. The day is not far when every…
China will ban from March 1 internet accounts that impersonate people or organisations, and enforce the requirement that people use real names when registering accounts online, its internet watchdog said on Wednesday. China has repeatedly made attempts to require internet users to register for online accounts using their real names, although with mixed success. Read…
China has announced that users of blogs and chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing that they will avoid challenging the Communist political system, further tightening control over Internet use. The announcement follows what technology companies say are official efforts in recent weeks to block virtual private…
The State government’s failure find a chairperson has delayed the formation of the State Human Rights Commission despite appointing two of its members. An official source on Monday said that the political department had made two attempts to get a Chairperson, but without success. Both former Chief Justice of High Court of Meghalaya T. Meena…
The rights perspective is missing in the draft of the National Health Policy-2015, said the National Human Rights Commission’s Core Group on Health. It also said that the public health system in the country needs to be made accountable and participatory. The reconstituted core group, which met here recently to review the 2015 draft, observed…
The head of a U.N. inquiry into last summer’s conflict between Israel and Gaza said on Monday he would resign after Israeli allegations of bias due to consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Canadian academic William Schabas was appointed last August by the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council to…