Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is arguing in favour of freedom of speech in the Supreme Court after the filing of some defamation cases against the AAP leader. But Kejriwal-led government in Delhi has decided to take legal action against media for news that might be “defamatory” in nature. The Directorate of Information has issued…
India is a young country on the move. More than half of the country’s population is under 25 years of age and every year 10 million people join the workforce. But despite these encouraging numbers, the country faces a potential shortage of 250 million skilled workers by 2022. A report from the UK India Business…
The party tents are up and bleacher stands are in place on the Columbia University’s beautifully apportioned Commons (public yard) that will bring together some 45,000 people — undergraduates, graduates, Doctorates, their families, the faculty, and the university administration—to celebrate the value of higher education at one of the great universities of the world where…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ campaign has got a big boost from his home state with Gujaratis accounting for highest use of e-governance services offered by various state and central government departments. Over 69 crore transactions were made by Gujaratis in 2014, amounting for 32% of the total in the country. These services were…
Getting a passport made or renewed would be as smooth as a Google search, I had hoped. Filling the online form and uploading it on the Passport Seva site, under the ministry of external affairs, wasn’t all that tough. The steady flow of SMSes and emails after that reminding the applicant – me, in this…
Following a series of measures initiated to impart transparency and efficiency to processes involved to start and run industry and enterprise in the state, Government of Uttar Pradesh has now begun the integration of State industrial and business related services into the national e-Biz Mission Mode project. In this regard, a two-day workshop was started…
The present e-governance system in Berhampur Tahasil Office has failed to benefit the people as it was expected to do. Some people prefer the manual procedure instead of the electronic one. E-governance which refers to the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for delivering Government services was implemented in 2012 in Ganjam district. Since…