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…
Science, technology and innovation have become key factors contributing to economic growth in both advanced and developing economies. In the knowledge economy, information circulates at the international level through trade in goods and services, direct investment and technology flows, and the movement of people. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been at the heart of…
The meeting of the United States-India Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Working Group, which promotes development in the ICT sector for mutual benefit was held in Washington, DC, January 14-15, 2015. The Participants noted that the ICT Working Group aims to strengthen collaboration between the governments and private sector of the two countries in the…
India and US have agreed to continue to explore the opportunities for collaboration on implementing India’s ambitious Digital India initiative, with the goal of enhancing digital infrastructure, deploying e-governance and e-services. The initiative is also aimed at expanding the diffusion and use of ICT as a tool to expand economic opportunity, boost productivity, create jobs,…