Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the ICICI Digital Village at Akodara in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat to the nation at an event organised here today to celebrate the ICICI Group’s 60th anniversary. The ICICI Digital Village enables the people of Akodara to use technology in various aspects of life including banking, payments, education and healthcare among…
The online education sector saw a lot of investments this year in the country, along with the entry of new players through acquisitions, new initiatives or partnerships. Additionally, various government policies to encourage e-learning, various MOOC initiatives by universities and the digitization of books underscored the growing importance of e-learning in the country. Let us…
Government censorship of the Internet is a cat-and-mouse game. And despite more aggressive tactics in recent months, the cats have been largely frustrated while the mice wriggle away. But this year, the challenges for Silicon Valley will mount, with Russia and Turkey in particular attempting to tighten the controls on foreign-based Internet companies. Indeed, major…
The Rajasthan Pollution Control Board (RPCB) that receives 125 applications a day hopes to cut the huge backlog as well as workload through e-governance. The initiative is touted by the state government as a common service centre that brings governance – anytime, anywhere. An applicant can submit his/her form online irrespective of the place he…
Hailing the Modi governments ‘Digital India’ campaign as a revolutionary plan to bridge the gap between the digital haves and have-nots Ravi Shankar Prasad said the entire profile of India will change in the next four to five years. Trivandrum: Inspired by the rapid strides made by India’s first telecom and technology start-up in Kerala’s…
As protests by Bajrang Dal activists escalated against Aamir Khan blockbuster ‘PK’, Congress on Tuesday condemned the vandalism and charged that the government was “complicit in its silence”. “Condemn acts of vandalism by Bajrang Dal and other fringe elements against movie PK. Would (PM Narendra) Modi ask CM Gujarat to act against Hooligans? “Or at least condemn it on…
To allow the exhibiting of the film PK to be disrupted by anyone in the name of religion is to surrender to each and every self-styled critic of the creative arts. In a functioning democracy, the freedom of expression is a tenet far too precious to be denied on the whims of persons who may…
The ₹30,000-cr project will help double the optical fibre capacity, says BBNL chief Aruna Sundararajan, former Kerala IT Secretary, who left her footprints on the State’s e-governance and e-literacy, is now part of the Digital India vision. She heads Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), which is tasked with building the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)…
The decision of the government to block 32 URLs has become a subject matter of debate and the question being asked is blocking the right way to go. Should the government be taking down websites or web pages? Should the government be acting against the intermediaries or should it block websites as a whole? These…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 102nd Indian Science Congress 2015 at the Mumbai University. This year’s theme of the Congress is Science and Technology for Human Development. The five-day event will witness deliberations and presentation of papers by the scientific fraternity from across the globe. More than 12 thousand delegates are expected…