The BJP’s student wing ABVP has turned into a big campus bully. Not only has it campaigned against the “forced conversion of Hindu girls”, but it is also against live-in relationships, worked to stop a beer festival in Chennai and raised a number of other ‘serious’ moral issues in Delhi University.
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Sulekha.com, India’s leading platform for ‘local service need fulfilment’, today shared the results of a study undertaken on the online market for CCTV Surveillance in India. Second highest demand for CCTV camera security systems—especially connected ones—is from Bengaluru. The usage is for a wide variety of interesting contexts such as monitoring of kids and pets…
To keep a check on touts roaming in and around the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) headquarters in Bandra, the housing body will be fitted with a full surveillance system. The office will be equipped with high density ultraviolet-fitted CCTVs in every nook and corner.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of world’s largest public platform Facebook, has come out in support of the victims of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo who were killed in Paris last week for the magazine’s sustained work in drawing cartoons that were insulting to Prophet Muhammad and Islam, among other religions. Sharing his own experience in…
My old boss, MJ Akbar, had only one commandment in journalism, so far as I remember. This was (and I am paraphrasing him): write whatever you want about any subject, but never make fun of religion. I am not sure whether this was said because he wanted his newspapers to show respect for religion or…
My old boss, MJ Akbar, had only one commandment in journalism, so far as I remember. This was (and I am paraphrasing him): write whatever you want about any subject, but never make fun of religion. I am not sure whether this was said because he wanted his newspapers to show respect for religion or…
National Association of Software Services Companies facilitated an interaction, between DeitY and the Industry on various challenges being faced by the sector, while participating in various e-Governance projects. The meeting chaired by Shri R.S. Sharma, Secretary DeitY, was attended by senior government officials from DEITY, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance and the Department of…
The scheme, part of the Central government’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), will be implemented in all 30 districts with the setting up of 5,713 CSCs across gram panchayats in the coming months. The CSCs will provide hundreds of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) services such as payment of utility bills, booking of railway…
Sajal Roy had invested ₹1.60 lakh in a common service centre (CSC) of Sahaj e-Village programme at Ramgopalpur village, in South 24-Parganas district of West Bengal, in 2007, with the intention to offer e-governance services. Unfortunately, the e-governance project did not take off in majority of the States, including Bengal. Roy had to depend on…
Electronic learning – the use of electronic media and devices in education – is likely to be as effective as traditional methods for training health professionals, says a study. Students acquire knowledge and skills through online and offline e-learning as well as or better than they do through traditional teaching, showed the findings of the…