The Punjab government on Thursday introduced a new step to simplify pension payment to its retired employees or their dependants by allowing them digital life certificates. According to a state spokesman, necessary amendments have been made in Para 13 of the instructions issued by the finance department on June 13, 1977.
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With ‘Digital India’ and ‘Smart Cities’ becoming buzzwords for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry is expecting some big-ticket announcements to encourage investments in broadband rollout and local electronics manufacturing.
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A day-long ‘National Workshop on Human Rights Defenders’ organized by the National Human Rights Commission concluded here today by emphasizing that the governments need to evolve an environment in their functioning to attach importance to the work of Human Rights Defenders.
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Gary Norcross, President and Chief Executive Officer of banking and technology payment solutions services provider FIS, says cyber security risk poses the single biggest threat for global financial services companies. In an interview with Business Today on Wednesday, Norcross said the financial sector will witness more cyber attacks in 2015 compared to 2014. “Data compromise…
These days, whenever we step out of home and even at home, one thing that constantly surrounds and accompanies is a gadget. Our dependence on some of these devices is so high that they are described by some as their extra appendages. Despite giving such an important place to them in our lives, we often…
India’s semiconductor industry has said that the absence of an Electronics Commission has been deeply affecting the ESDM players and the ecosystem, and so there’s an urgent need to set up an ‘Electronics Commission’ in India.
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The dark clouds against secularism and rational thought are gathering speed and taking on a diabolical hue if the attempted murder of veteran Communist Party of India leader Govind Pansare and his wife, Uma, in Kolhapur is any indication. Pansare who on Monday was returning after his morning walk accompanied by Uma, were shot at…
The Delhi high court Thursday reserved its verdict in a petition filed by Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, against not being allowed to board an aircraft departing for the UK on 11 January where she was going to meet some British lawmakers. Justice Rajiv Shakdher reserved the judgment after hearing extensive arguments from Pillai’s lawyer Indira…
‘One Library Per Village’, a state based organisation, has partnered NASSCOM Foundation to organize a Digital Literacy Week (DLW) from February 21. During this period, two village Libraries, Dr. B R Ambedhakhar Library at Kakkathanam ,Vilangara and Thrikkannamangal Public Library, Kottarakara in the district will have a special free training session, according to National Digital Literacy Mission…
Tirur municipality in Malappuram district has been declared totally digital literate. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy announced here on Wednesday that Tirur had become the first municipality in India to complete the e-governance digital literacy programme. As many as 13,000 families in 38 wards of the municipality were made digitally literate through a two-month campaign spearheaded…