Aimed to improve the access of farmers for receiving information and services throughout the crop cycle, Agriculture e-governance scheme was launched in Kashmir Division with a view to further empower the farmers of the valley and bring them closer to the state department’s several other provisions.
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There has been a series of technology-based initiatives announced by the NDA government after assuming power. While some of them like Digital India and MyGov are explicitly about technology, many others such as prime minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana etc have technology as the prime building block.
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Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that information technology (IT) will play an important role in providing good governance to people.
Government of Jharkhand is serious about introducing E-Governance in every sphere of governance so that fruits of development initiatives reach to the targeted populations.
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As India moves towards becoming the world’s second largest Internet market, the need for privacy and data protection is of critical importance to safeguard interests of netizens, activists have said. According to Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), which provides free legal services to developers of free and open source softwares, Europe is having an “intense”…
As one of newest and most constantly evolving branches of law in the US, Internet legislation has emerged along with the thirty year old medium it represents. Although the Internet had modest beginnings in the military and academic fields, according to recent statistics, today’s usage puts it in the hands daily of over 100 million…
The six-month-old video on WhatsApp showed six men sexually assaulting two women. Sunitha Krishnan was at first stunned. But something needed to be done. The Bangalore-based women’s rights activist decided to shame the rapists. She edited the video to protect the identity of the victims and uploaded two clips of the assault on YouTube and…
Visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Monday indicated Colombo’s keenness that India extend support to it during next month’s UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva during which a report on a US-sponsored “war crimes investigations” is to be filed.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council will defer the key report on Sri Lanka’s conflict, due in March, to September 2015. In what appears to be a clear shift in stance, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday said he had made a recommendation to the Council “to delay the consideration…
North Korea says it will respond “very strongly” to a conference in Washington on Tuesday about its widespread human rights abuses and says the United States ignored Pyongyang’s offer to attend and defend itself. Puzzled conference organizers said the event was open to the public.
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An entrepreneur who has won a patent for a digital veena, and also designed a mechanism that fires rockets at a command from a computer aboard the Indian Air Force’s Jaguar aircraft? Incongruous but true. The entrepreneurial career of G Raj Narayan, 66, founder and managing director of Bengaluru’s Radel Group, has been guided by his…