In order to promote m-governance (mobile-governance), Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the information technology professionals to find out ways to provide maximum possible services through mobile phones. “I urge you to explore ways to provide as many services as possible through mobiles. Let us bring the world into our mobile phones,” Modi tweeted at…
Eminent scientist and former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam has made a pitch for laying optical fibre for transmitting data along with power lines to help achieve India’s digital vision. This will be an effective solution to the challenge of laying fibre cable underground in order to achieve the target of the Digital India…
The union government under its ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme has decided to use the Aadhaar number as a “digital identity” for the purpose of mobile banking. The Aadhaar number would be linked with the mobile number as well as the bank account number of the individual. The announcement was made by the secretary, Department of Electronics & Information…
The Centre is all set to launch an array of people-centric digital services under its ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme, a top official said here today. These services include digital lockers, cloud sharing, electronic signature, WiFi hot spots and e-textbook project among others. The details about upcoming services under ‘Digital India’ were shared by Secretary in the Department of Electronics & Information Technology…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has yet again decried the delay in repealing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) 1958. The World Report 2015 released globally by the US-based organisation said, AFSPA, which has been in force for decades in Northeastern States and Jammu and Kashmir, has provided effective immunity to members of the armed…
Russia said on Thursday it had barred four more U.S. citizens from its territory in retaliation for Washington’s decision to expand the number of Russians blacklisted over suspected human rights abuses. Last month, the United States added four names to the so-called Magnitsky list, named after lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian jail…
The three-day Camp Sitting of the National Human Rights Commission, presided over by Member, Shri S.C. Sinha from 27th to 29th January, 2015 concluded at Circuit House, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh today. He was assisted by Shri C.K. Tyagi, Presenting Officer, Shri A.K. Parashar, Joint Registrar (Law), Shri C.S. Mawri, Assistant Registrar (Law) along with other…
United Nations support for a planned military operation against Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could be in doubt because Congo named a general accused of rights abuses to head the offensive, diplomats and officials said on Friday. General Bruno Mandevu was appointed on Sunday to head a Congolese army (FARDC) operation against…
Hearing a PIL petition by H M Farookh, a native of Sampangi in Kolar district, a division bench comprising Justices K L Manjunath and S Sujatha dismissed the petition, stating that there is no merit in the petition. The petitioner had submitted that by appointing Justice Nayak as chairman of the Law Commission on June…
District magistrates (DMs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) have been ordered to inform National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) about custodial deaths in their jurisdiction within 24 hours. This was stated by NHRC member SC, who was a part of commission’s team that inspected the Naini Central Jail and took stock of the condition in which…