E-Billing Solutions Pvt. Ltd (EBS), a leading pan-India online payment aggregator, has achieved a significant penetration into the education segment. Over the last 2 years, EBS has doubled the number of education institutes in its portfolio with almost 6 times surge in the number of transactions and around 150% increase in payment volume through its…
5807 gram panchayaths, including block headquarters in Karnataka, would be getting rural broadband optical fiber connectivity under the ‘Digital India’- BharatNet fiber project by Bharath Broadband Network Limited (BBNL), Bengaluru by this year end. BharatNet fiber is a centre -state collaborative project of BBNL to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-governance, e-banking and…
Scaling on the optical fibre network, the nation is all set to march on the digital path this week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a Rs one lakh crore programme aimed at wiping out the digital divide. The programme, envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), with coordination with ministry of communications…
BSNL has been given the responsibility of Digital India project in Bihar and 16 other states. India has been divided into two parts, one which has the internet facility and the other lacking it. This digital divide has to be removed by laying optical fibre in every panchayat to provide broadband connectivity to rural India,…
Manipur Students Federation (MSF), Pangal Students organisation (PSO), All Manipur Art and Culture Students Union (AMACSU) and Manipur Nat Kanba Lup (MNKL) jointly organized a one Day Moral Education Awareness Programme on Wednesday at Human Resource Development School, Ghari. The programme was attended by Kh Serajjudin, President MSF, MA Wakil Alsari President PSO, Th Udoi…
The Indian government will be launching its ambitious project ‘Digital India’ on the first day of July. Around 400 eminent entrepreneurs will be attending the launch. Chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani is also invited for the event. Other corporates that may attend the launch are CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Chairman of Tata Group,…
The Government’s ambitious “Digital India” plan aims to digitally connect all of India’s villages and gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. By the year 2019, the ‘Digital India’ program of the Government of India (GOI), envisages that 250,000 Indian villages will enjoy broadband connectivity, and universal…
Education in India is getting a whole new dimension with the advent of some revolutionary online educational startups. Narendra Modi’s campaign ‘Skill Up’ is luring more organizations to invest in the online education startup space. India’s online education arena is close to $3 billion today, making it the next big thing in India. Analysts envisage…
Elearning startup Sigrid Education has raised an undisclosed amount in an early stage funding from Oliphans Capital. This is Oliphans’s eighth investment in the startup space. With the latest funding, the startup will focus on creating and introducing courses in 50 most prominent test-prep and K12 curriculum areas in the coming 6 months. Also, Sigrid…
Simplilearn, a start-up, which provides professional certification courses, has acquired Silicon Valley-based digital marketing training company Market Motive for $10 million (Rs. 63 crore). Market Move was co-founded by Google’s digital marketing evangelist, Avinash Kaushik. The acquisition will help Simplilearn expand its presence in the U.S. and provide digital marketing courses to working professionals and…