Initial reservation notwithstanding, the Centre has set the ball rolling on innovative pilot projects by Google and Microsoft for potentially expanding Internet reach in India and had asked Google India to submit a revised proposal with a new frequency band for deploying its Project Loon in India. Google, which had approached the Department of Information…
Mobile data is now such an important part of our lives that it is hard to imagine a world without it. However, Internet penetration in India is still significantly low. According to an IAMAI report Internet penetration in India is around 33.22 percent as of December 2015, and India ranks 126th in the world. To…
KOLKATA, India — Across a bustling intersection from one of the first dead-letters offices, a pale blue sign beseeches pedestrians to join the future. Safely. Several hundred feet separate old, colonial India from the promise of a new, technologically transformed country. An Uber sign urges traffic safety and a gentle nudge for the ride-sharing service,…
India appears set to overtake the US to become the world’s second largest Internet market, but its users face the slowest average connection speeds measured in the Asia-Pacific region, a new report finds. Internet users in India — an expected 462 million people by June 2016 — experienced an average speed of 2.8 megabits per…
There will be no escaping the traffic challan for people in Noida and Lucknow. Breaking the road safety rule will not only slap a challan but also create a profile of yours on the nationalregister of the union ministry of road transport and highways. If you don’t pay your challan and get caught for subsequent…
The government of national capital territory of Delhi (GNCTD) intends to convert all services including internal functioning on the e-platform in a time-bound manner. As part of the e-governance initiatives for G2C and G2B, free Wi-Fi is available at the premises of Delhi secretariat. Both officials and the visitors can access free unlimited internet in…
In a first of its kind e-governance initiative, Rajasthan has created a pioneering IT infrastructure to create a state wide network to deliver citizen services and e-governance initiatives. Christened RajNET—this network will cover all 9,894 gram panchayats, 183 municipal areas along with all district and block headquarters. This is first of its kind network in…
The Pune police on Tuesday inaugurated the Social Media Lab that will help monitor issues related unlawful practices and activities occurring taking place on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube among other sites as well as other websites on the internet. The police have termed the lab as an important instrument step that…
Officers should guard against misuse or abuse of the provisions of Right to Information Act, Shankar Patil, State Information Commissioner, said here on Tuesday. He told officials at the zilla panchayat to use their discretion in deciding on RTI applications that were not bona fide. “If you know that an application has been filed only…
Senior Congress leader and party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s article on sedition and free speech has appeared in the latest edition of pro-RSS journal ‘Organiser’. Singhvi has termed it as a “victory of Indian Constitution”, the fact that the journal repeatedly approached him and he finally agreed to write for it. The Congress leader makes…