The robust growth of India’s information technology industry is attributed to a multitude of factors including growing middle class, rising disposable income and various government initiatives such as broadband connectivity to villages, rural electrification and e-governance programs. The government’s “Digital India” program aims to reach every citizen’s home and office. To increase technology penetration across…
Watching television on the go has never been simpler. Doordarshan is rolling out mobile television service that will initially cover 16 cities with plans for expansion into more locations in India. Unlike online video streaming services that have been on the rise in the recent times, Doordarshan’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service requires no Internet…
Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to help people easily find quick information in response to symptoms or concerns via its search engine, and now the feature is headed east to India. The company, which…
Pune: Lack of playgrounds and electricity connections, inadequate teachers, no compound are some of the shortcomings found by NGO ‘Samarthan’ in the 97,000 primary schools in the state.A report of the facilities absent in state schools after five years of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act has been submitted to the state government.…
It helps to remind oneself of the scale of Digital India, its magnitude and sweep: to provide e-governance and other e-services everywhere, including 250,000 gram panchayats serving another 400,000 villages. That includes all the backbone and aggregation networks, and institutional processes to get there. The links indigitalindia.gov.in, such as https://www.bbnl.nic.in/, illustrate what’s involved – and…
NEW DELHI: Lack of information-sharing about cyber attacks and adequate skills around cybersecurity are the biggest hurdles to effective prevention from cyber attacks in India, even as organisations around the world are working towards building a common vocabulary around cyber attacks.
On the question of promoting and protecting the rights of children, Justice Madan B Lokur of the Supreme Court brooks no delay on the part of the authorities. In two cases, heard by Justice Lokur recently, satisfactory outcome led him to dispose of one, and in another, he warned the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA),…
Does freedom of speech not apply to Baba Ramdev? That’s what BJP president Amit Shah wants to know. Absolutely, it does. Baba Ramdev, if you remember, decided a Sadbhavna (compassion) rally was the perfect setting to thunder “Koi aadmi topi pehan kar ke khada ho jaata hai, bolta Bharat Mata ki Jai nahi bolunga, chahe…