Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will lend a helping hand to India in selecting 100 towns that will be turned into smart cities under a flagship project of the Modi government that has made little progress since it was announced eight months ago.
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United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein sharply criticized a prominent Myanmar monk on Wednesday for what he said were sexist and abusive public comments about a U.N. special rapporteur.
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United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein sharply criticized a prominent Myanmar monk on Wednesday for what he said were sexist and abusive public comments about a U.N. special rapporteur.
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In the run up to President Barack Obama’s visit, Human Rights Watch – an influential human rights group – has stepped up its lobbying in both Washington and Delhi. It wants the US to raise issues of attacks on civil society groups and insecurity of religious minorities with India, and India to raise the Senate…
In December, reportedly following an intervention by the prime minister, the government informed the Supreme Court that it would reconsider Section 66A of the IT Act, a law that has gained notoriety from being bluntly wielded against soft targets ranging from cartoonists to university professors, among others. Now, in affidavits responding to PILs questioning the…
Communications and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the centre will take the help of private companies to deeply entrench Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Digital India” programme in the system so that it starts yielding results. Inaugurating the 23rd Convergence India 2015 expo organized by Exhibitions India, Prasad said, “India is in…
A report in The Guardian has claimed that British electronic spy agency GCHQ was involved in the hacking and surveillance of a large number of journalists belonging to some of the big names in the media industry.
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A report in The Guardian has claimed that British electronic spy agency GCHQ was involved in the hacking and surveillance of a large number of journalists belonging to some of the big names in the media industry.
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Technological advances are to explode 10 times faster than even the Internet boom in the 1990s, top tech tycoons told the global Davos elite Wednesday, but also warned that security threats would be worse this year than ever. As the world’s political and business movers-and-shakers opened their annual meeting in the Swiss ski resort of…
Bangalore based online education platform,Simplilearn which provides professional certification courses has raised close to INR 90 crore from Mayfield India with participation from existing investors Kalaari Capital and Helion Ventures.
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