The NDA government is committed to improve tele-density, voice and broadband penetration and ensure quality of services to both rural and urban areas to achieve the vision of Digital India, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “The focus of the department of telecommunications is to create the communication infrastructure for enabling e-services like…
Mobile service providers say the government will find it extremely difficult to achieve all-round development if they are not allowed to set up more cell tower to boost wireless communication. Small spectrum, fewer number of cell towers with low capacity to handle more calls and growing numbers of subscribers are some of the challenges that…
Hacking, publication of obscene contents, credit card and banking frauds among other cybercrimes have registered an annual increase of more than 40 per cent in the country in the past two years. According to Home Ministry statistics, as many as 71,780 cyber frauds were reported in 2013, while 22,060 such cases were reported in 2012.…
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) organised a mega event and an exhibition at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi on 25 December to celebrate Good Governance Day. The event was inaugurated by Union Minister of Communications & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, and attended by officials of central government and its agencies, industry…
The NDA government is committed to improve tele-density, voice and broadband penetration and ensure quality of services to both rural and urban areas to achieve the vision of Digital India, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in New Delhi Thursday. “The focus of the department of telecommunications is to create the communication infrastructure…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has offered to collaborate with the Centre in providing last-mile internet connectivity, especially through Wi-Fi technology.
He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad to explore the company’s participation in the Centre’s ‘Digital India’ programme.
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In a major initiative that may revolutionize the general education sector, Kerala is all set to introduce multi-media “Digital Collaborative Textbooks” (DCT), the first of its kind in the country, in government schools. This digital textbook will comprise information contributed by persons around the globe in audio or video formats, besides the scanned soft-copy of…
Home minister Gulabchand Kataria and social justice and empowerment minister Arun Chaturvedi are among those who received threatening the emails Jaipur: Sixteen ministers in Rajasthan have received threatening messages on their official email IDs purportedly sent by terrorists group Indian Mujahideen prompting the police to further strengthen the security arrangements in the state. Home minister…
As social media has emerged as a key communications tool, the External Affairs Ministry has come on the top among various ministries and government departments in terms of its presence on digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+. On the micro-blogging site Twitter, Indian Diplomacy with its @IndianDiplomacy handle (the official account of India’s Public Diplomacy,…
Internet giant Google is in talks with the IT Ministry to roll out optical fibre-based broadband services as part of the Digital India programme. Google plans to roll out a fibre network in a small area as a showcase project. According to top officials in the IT Ministry, the discussions are at an initial stage.…