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…
With an aim to transform education with the use of technology, Microsoft India has launched Edu-Cloud, a cloud computing-based offering that will enhance digital learning and teaching in schools and higher education institutions. Sri Chaitanya Schools is one of the first K-12 education networks to adopt Microsoft India’s Edu-Cloud for its teachers and students in…
Uniken, a digital security firm, raised Rs 12 crore from Exfinity Venture Partners, a Bengaluru-based venture capital fund formed by veterans like T V Mohandas Pai, V Balakrishnan, Girish Paranjpe and Deepak Ghaisas. The funds will be used for international expansion and to establish market leadership in India. Uniken provides a digital connectivity and access…
Uniken, a digital security firm, has raised Rs 12 crore from Exfinity Venture Partners, a Bengaluru-based venture capital fund formed by veterans T V Mohandas Pai, V Balakrishnan, Girish Paranjpe and Deepak Ghaisas. Uniken’s digital connectivity and access platform, REL-ID, enables growth of digital connections, securely.
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The government today said that the details of the proposed Right to Privacy Bill are yet to be finalised as it responded to a query in Parliament on a reported request by intelligence agencies that they be kept out of its purview. “The drafting of the Bill is at the preliminary stage and the details…