Last year, Saudi Aramco, which buys naphtha from ONGC, received an e-mail asking it to deposit Rs 100 crore for its latest purchase in a new bank account with Bangkok Bank Public Company Ltd instead of the usual State Bank of India account. The Saudi Arabia-based company did so in September. Same month, it deposited…
Cuttack: Police stations will have to register complaints related to cyber crime reported from their jurisdiction. “They are refusing to register cyber crime cases on the ground that they lack the technical knowledge and expertise to probe such cases and refer it to the Cyber police station in Cuttack. This will not be tolerated any…
“Jab lal lal laharayega, tab hosh thikane ayega.” “Bhagwa jab laharayega, tab hosh thikane ayega.” “Tiranga jab laharayega, tab hosh thikane ayega.” These three slogans are largely symbolic of the three kinds of nationalism seen on campus — left, right and Nehruvian. The first two are extremist, exclusionist, and imported. They selectively adhere to the…
NEW DELHI, Apr 7 : The two day legal awareness program for women from North East States in Delhi is the right initiative and is expected of the National Women’s Commission, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju and added that it has come at the right time. Kiren Rijiju said this…
The robust growth of India’s information technology industry is attributed to a multitude of factors including growing middle class, rising disposable income and various government initiatives such as broadband connectivity to villages, rural electrification and e-governance programs. The government’s “Digital India” program aims to reach every citizen’s home and office. To increase technology penetration across…
Watching television on the go has never been simpler. Doordarshan is rolling out mobile television service that will initially cover 16 cities with plans for expansion into more locations in India. Unlike online video streaming services that have been on the rise in the recent times, Doordarshan’s Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service requires no Internet…
Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to help people easily find quick information in response to symptoms or concerns via its search engine, and now the feature is headed east to India. The company, which…
Pune: Lack of playgrounds and electricity connections, inadequate teachers, no compound are some of the shortcomings found by NGO ‘Samarthan’ in the 97,000 primary schools in the state.A report of the facilities absent in state schools after five years of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act has been submitted to the state government.…
It helps to remind oneself of the scale of Digital India, its magnitude and sweep: to provide e-governance and other e-services everywhere, including 250,000 gram panchayats serving another 400,000 villages. That includes all the backbone and aggregation networks, and institutional processes to get there. The links indigitalindia.gov.in, such as https://www.bbnl.nic.in/, illustrate what’s involved – and…
NEW DELHI: Lack of information-sharing about cyber attacks and adequate skills around cybersecurity are the biggest hurdles to effective prevention from cyber attacks in India, even as organisations around the world are working towards building a common vocabulary around cyber attacks.