The National Optical Fibre Network is an initiative under “Digital India” programme to connect 250,000 gram panchayats by December 2016, through broadband optical fibre network. Once completed, it will facilitate delivery of multiple e-Services including e-commerce, e-education and e-governance.
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Union Cabinet meetings will soon go paperless. The government is finalising a plan to put all Cabinet notes on Kindle devices, which ministers will use at meetings and return to the Cabinet Secretariat immediately after.
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In connection with the launching of Agriculture e-governance Scheme in Kashmir Division, a meeting of Divisional Level Agriculture Officers and Chief Agriculture Officers of Department was held here under the chairmanship of Director Agriculture Kashmir, Peerzada Mushtaq Ahmad Shah.
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The D. M. Harish Memorial Government Law College National Moot Court Competition, one of the country’s only international events of this kind held privacy as the key topic for this year. “We are beginning to move into a world where technology as much as it is evolving us, is simultaneously even destroying us. The irony lies in…
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, urged tech firms as well as the government to safeguard the consumer right to privacy as well as their data by deciding to work together in the President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity summit held on Friday at Stanford University.
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India’s first Wi-Fi enabled tribal taluka Khedbrahma, India’s first Wi-Fi enabled urban centre Modasa, India’s first Digital Village Akodara- all these landmarks belong to Gujarat. The visionary leadership of Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has not only brought the state on digital map of India, but also has earned the title of ‘Smart State’ for Gujarat…
Cyber crime is one of the major challenges before the legal field. The graph of cyber crime is showing an upward trend for the past several years. However, criminals go scot free in the absence of substantial proof, saying that, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis exhorted the youth to work in this area in and ensure…
Alleging that Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai’s deposition before a British parliamentary committee would have been “prejudicial to national interest”, the home ministry has in an affidavit before the Delhi high court attacked the practice of western countries issuing annual reports of their assessment of human rights violations in other countries.
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Odisha Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance in killing of a RTI activist Ganesh Chandra Panda in Berhmpur in last December. The commission has asked the Superintendent of Police of Ganjam District to file a report within four weeks. Commission’s order came to the response of a complaint filed by rights activist Akhand. Last December,…
The $146 billion Indian IT industry has navigated the ever-changing world of technology with remarkable alacrity and is now gearing up for the next wave from which a lot many things digital are expected. This time, however, it might be a lot more different as the momentum will be driven not just by large Indian…