Pushing strongly for de-criminalisation of defamation, political leaders across the spectrum argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that continuing with defamation as a penal offence under a colonial law muzzles free speech in a modern welfare state where truth and public debate are considered the greatest ways to good governance. A Bench headed by…
The Cyber Crime Police arrested two persons from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly hacking the website and email accounts of Mee Seva centre and siphoning off over `13 lakh. The arrested include Mohd. Khasim Khan (40), and Himanshu Shekhar Singh alias Rinku Singh (34), both natives of Uttar Pradesh. The duo hacked the Mee Seva website…
A new smartphone app that monitors patients suffering from chronic cardiopulmonary diseases by analysing the way they walk can warn doctors at the first sign of trouble. Using the health-tracking app, MoveSense, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a patient’s oxygen saturation level can be passively monitored with medical accuracy. Oxygen…
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar and IIT, Bhubaneswar have joined hands to develop a series of e-Health technologies that can radically alter healthcare services delivery systems in Odisha and the country. The premier institutions have set about developing an e-Clinic kiosk that can establish early health warning systems, predicting disease patterns…
The Rajasthan government today announced to launch ‘Aarogya Rajasthan Abhiyan’ campaign to collect and compile health data of rural population in the state. E-health cards will be generated for people living in rural areas during the campaign which will start on August 15 and continue till December 31. Health department employees at Gram Panchayat level will collate data and on the…
Telangana government has embarked on ‘e-arogyam’, an online e-medicine centre in all the government hospitals. The main aim of this programme is to provide quality healthcare services to poor patients in the rural areas. As part of government’s initiative to provide high quality healthcare services to the poor patients and to improve the existing healthcare…
To Inform, Educate & Engage citizens across the country, Digital India Week, from 1stJuly to 7th July, 2015 has been observed all over India. In thisweek, multiple and varied events and activities took place at all the levels. Starting from the National level event, launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister,events were conducted at State and District…
The MoU will come into effect from June5 2015, and will remain effective for a period of three years NATHEALTH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Task Force Health Care (TFHC) Working Group India in the presence of The Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte. Dutch Ministers Lilianne Ploumen – Foreign Trade…
Pakistani intelligence sought to tap worldwide Internet traffic via underwater cables that would have given the country a digital espionage capacity to rival the US, according to a report by Privacy International. The report says the country’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency hired intermediary companies to acquire domestic spying toolkits from Western and Chinese firms…
‘Digital India’ is arguably the most ambitious initiative of the Modi government. There are hurdles on the way, but there are also opportunities. How exactly will ‘Digital India’ roll out? Read here in the first part of an explanatory piece. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India program in Delhi with much fanfare, supplemented…