Joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India programme, top lender ICICI Bank has launched its own ‘digital village’ project while adopting an entire village in Gujarat to provide services ranging from cashless banking to digitised school teaching.
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The Narendra Modi government will utilise the upcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Gandhinagar next week to woo NRI and PIO entrepreneurs to invest in six flagship programs, including Digital India, Make in India, Clean Ganga campaign, Swachh Bharat and skills development initiative.
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The Narendra Modi government will utilise the upcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Gandhinagar next week to woo NRI and PIO entrepreneurs to invest in six flagship programs, including Digital India, Make in India, Clean Ganga campaign, Swachh Bharat and skills development initiative.
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During the occasion of the Science Congress on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need for digital connectivity and its significance. He equated it with school education and claimed it was a “basic right” for children, much like education. This was said by the PM while inaugurating the 102nd Indian Science Congress in Mumbai. He…
The central government announced that “Make in India” has become its largest and fastest growing digital initiative with 2.1 billion impressions on social media. In the process, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion initiative has “left behind every other government department like the MEA (ministry of external affairs), home ministry or the ministry of…
In the US, President Barack Obama’s recent statement, urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue regulations embracing principles of “net neutrality” (NN)—seen by some as the gold standard for supervising internet traffic—created quite a stir and inevitably had cross-border effects, including in India. A series of articles appeared in the local media, both supporting…
The mellow rays of the winter sun glinted off the drum major’s baton as the colourfully attired brass band marched past the Chief of the Army Staff to the stirring strains of Deshon ka Sartaj Bharat at the end of the Army Day parade. In the speech that followed, the Chief exhorted the Army to…
Report 2014 saw a rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits, says a report from Hoot’s Free Speech Hub The state of free speech in India remains a cause for concern judging by the rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits,…
BJP national president Amit Shah on Friday said every individual had the right to freedom of expression including those who opposed the film PK. He was responding to a question seeking his opinion on the row over PK and issues thereafter. Asked about the film, Shah said, “I don’t want to comment on this, but each individual, including those opposing…
The State government on Friday constituted an expert committee to formulate the policy framework for implementation of e-governance at all levels. The move comes in the wake of a Central government panel’s recommendation for mandatory ICT skills among government employees. It had suggested that basic ICT skills should be a must even at the entry…