On the one hand, Prime Minister Modi maintains a high pitch on Digital India, a vision of Internet-enabled people, rich and poor, making use of e-governance and other Internet-enabled services spanning education, healthcare, finance and commerce, to take advantage of the opportunities offered by a connected globe. On the other, the government chooses policies that…
he Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Kalraj Mishra today launched the e-book of the Ministry of MSME featuring details of schemes, e-governance initiatives, budget announcements, etc.
The E-Book initiative of MSME is an entrepreneur-friendly step and can be accessed at the Ministries website: https://msme.gov.in/WriteReadData/Whatsnew/MSME%20eBook%202015-07012015.pdf, according to an official release.
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The fag end of 2014 was specked with amazing events, unprecedented in India’s business history. It marked the next phase of mobile telephony revolution in India and saw the launch of a major mobile-based e-governance initiative. For those born in 1990s, the first leg of the mobile revolution, which began 20 years ago with grant of mobile licences and…
The e-governance was launched at Manapparai taluk on Wednesday Residents of the taluk could get essential certificates of the Revenue Department from seven designated Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACBs) in the district. Applicants can get community, income, nativity, first-generation graduate, and widow certificates from the PACBs at Manapparai, Muthupudaiyanpatti, Azhipatti, Maravanur, Vellaipoolanpatti, Malaiyadipatti, Anampatti, Mondipatti,…
With initiatives like e-visas, e-FIRs, e-praman patras and now Mobile One, one can see e-governance shaping up as it was envisaged more than a decade ago, making a citizen’s life easier as a netizen. For the citizen, a concept which originated in ancient Greek city-states and granted rights along with duties, these initiatives make life easier. For…
Promises to fight terror, questions about Islam and the limits of freedom of expression filled up Twitter after gunmen shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Witnesses said they heard the gunmen shouting “we have avenged the Prophet Mohammad” when they attacked…
Security has shot up to the top of the agenda of many companies following the recent array of cyber attacks. Three-quarters of CIOs in a recent surveycalled it their top priority, up from 59% last year. It’s why many investors expect billions of dollars will flow into this area in 2015. Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson even…
Security has shot up to the top of the agenda of many companies following the recent array of cyber attacks. Three-quarters of CIOs in a recent surveycalled it their top priority, up from 59% last year. It’s why many investors expect billions of dollars will flow into this area in 2015. Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson even…
When SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son met prime minister Narendra Modi last October, he made it a point to tell him that unless India addressed the problem of acute shortage of spectrum—Indian telcos have an average of 12-13 MHz of spectrum against a global average of 50 MHz—there was very little chance of Digital India succeeding.…
Google is ready to help India implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Digital India” initiative, and the government has a well laid out plan to realise it, said Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf. Cerf was speaking at a seminar organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ( FICCI) here on Tuesday.…