Jammu and Kashmir has bagged the National Award for e-Governance for the best district-level initiative in the country. The Department of Administrative Reforms, Ministry of Personnel and the PMO have selected Jammu and Kashmir for National Award e-Governance 2014-15 for the best district- level initiative in the country, an official spokesman said today. The award…
Rajasthan may be the number one state in terms of IT-enables services, but it lags behind several states, including Himachal Pradesh, in e-transactions. As per eTaal, a portal of the department of electronics and information technology, Rajasthan doesn’t figure even in the top five states in terms of e-transactions per 1,000 population. E-governance continues to…
President of the United States, Barack Obama, recently requested Congress to pass legislation to increase cybersecurity. This would be to aid private industry as well as government security. There have been recent computer breaches that have increased the threat to national security and so Obama has capitalised on this growing concern. Mr Obama hopes to increase the…
The IT firm anticipates an increase in demand driven by the NDA govt’s Digital India programme New Delhi: Accenture Plc., which has 40% of its global big data analytics team based in India, plans to tap the country’s high-end analytics market in anticipation of an increase in demand driven by the government’s Digital India programme.…
Even as the Narendra Modi government promotes Digital India and private investments in defence production, it remains wary of non-government players in the satellite communications (satcom) sector. Recalling the Antrix-Devas imbroglio of 2010, the PM-headed department of space (DoS) is learnt to have expressed reluctance to expedite an application of the US-headquartered Hughes Network Systems…
Opposing the criminalisation of homosexuality, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that doing so breeds intolerance by violating basic rights to privacy and freedom.
He also said that the fight for human equality must be inclusive and should set aside all differences, including those “based on sexual orientation”.
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A training programme on “para–legal and advocacy skills” was conducted by Legal Cell for Human Rights (LCHR) at Guwahati from January 8 to 12, for Adivasi youth social activists from tea gardens of Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Udalguri, Sonitpur and Nagaon districts.
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Rajasthan may be the number one state in terms of IT-enables services, but it lags behind several states, including Himachal Pradesh, in e-transactions.
As per eTaal, a portal of the department of electronics and information technology, Rajasthan doesn’t figure even in the top five states in terms of e-transactions per 1,000 population.
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You know that character in most horror films-he’s usually some grumpy old guy or some crazed social outcast-who warns unsuspecting (usually) teenage victims of their impending death? The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report is kind of like that guy, completely filled with doom and gloom but offering damn good advice on how to stay alive.
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The Central Silk Board (CSB), under the Ministry of Textiles, has taken up a project to identify potential areas forsericulture expansion, using remote sensing and geographical information system (GIS) technology. Under this project, using RS and GIS technologies, the CSB has identified land suitable for sericulture in about 108 districts spread over to 26 states. Out of this, 41 districts from 8 North-Eastern states…