When was the last time the Indian Parliament debated anything related to the internal affairs of an alien nation? Forget alien nation, the record of nearly 20-plus years shows that our political parties are busy pulling each other down in Parliamentary debates and very few, if any of these debates have been about or in…
There are some 18 million children living on the streets in India, according to data compiled by UNICEF (2000). Fifty four of them, along with a collective of some 14 civil society organisations from India and Nepal, met with officers of the UN Convention on Child Rights (UNCRC) this week in New Delhi to put…
Search engine giant Google has launched new health cards in Knowledge Graph, which anyone in India could use to search for health information and get it more quickly and easily. Google’s initiative is supported by Apollo hospitals and Columbia Asia hospitals for this feature in India. When users searched for a common health condition, the…
BENGALURU: Rapid exploration of technology has forced the human race to sharpen their computer skills as it is the next thing to look out for. Going with the same trend, Indian culture is going through a digital upheaval that eliminates manual efforts by weaving computerized waves in working sectors, educational institutes, and government sectors. It…
NEW DELHI: Google is working on optimising voice-based search to work even in less connectivity or zero connectivity zones. The solution is being built keeping in mind emerging countries, especially India where Internet connectivity is quite patchy. In an interview, Anjali Joshi, vice president of product management for Search at Google said that California-headquartered firm’s…
WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encryption for all its services today. This means that all user calls, texts, video, images and other files sent can only be viewed by the intended recipient, and no one, not even WhatsApp itself, can access this data. This guarantee of user privacy creates new concerns for the government. WhatsApp will now…
Only about a fifth of India’s roughly 1.2 billion people are online, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, and the world’s biggest technology companies are clamoring for this large, untapped user base. Facebook recently tried (and failed) to implement its“Free Basics” internet program, and Google is also vying for the vast Indian internet…
During the past few months, social news and conversation website Reddit has taken steps to address online abuse. On Wednesday, Reddit went a step further by announcing that it would provide people with a blocking feature to protect themselves against harassment on the site. It would ban abusive users from sending messages to others on…
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Kohima has commenced conducting “ICT skill training program for state government employees” under the theme “preparing northeast for digital India”, Thursday. Delivering a keynote address, director in-charge NIELIT Kohima, Er. Lanuwabang mentioned that the training program was part of the ongoing nationwide Digital India initiatives, with the…
New Delhi: Nowadays, with the increasing use of Internet, many people have become avid social media users. Some of them have become so addicted that they often update and post every minute detail of their life on the social media. But we often tend to forget that social media is unsafe with the increasing cases…