The Centre has given assurance of providing Rs five crore to West Bengal for the digitisation of courts in the state. "I spoke to the Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and he has verbally committed to provide five crore for the digitisation of the courts," Chairman of the Core Committee on IT set up by the state government, Sam Pitroda told reporters here today.
Tamil Nadu today became the second state in the country to be covered by the Passport Seva Kendra project. "Tamil Nadu has become the second state in the country to be covered by Passport Seva Kendra (PSK). Now, the state has four Pass Port offices and eight Passport Seva Kendras," Muktesh K Pardeshi, Joint Secretary and Chief Passport Officer, Ministry of External Affa
Rediff Founder and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan today said e-commerce in India has not yet taken off as expected, but hoped government`s committment to make huge investment to create back-hall broadband infrastructure would give a filip to online shopping. This was because credit card penetration is low in India and failure rate of debit card transaction is 50 per cent,he said.
An amount of Rs 18 crore has been allotted to the district by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for issuing free laptops to higher secondary school students, Higher Education Minister P Palaniyappan said today. Speaking at Sindalpadi village 33 km from here after distributing free mixies, grinders, fans, heads of cattle and laptops to beneficiaries under Special Welfare Scheme, he said
Four years after being charged with misbehaving with a woman air passenger, Kerala Minister P J Joseph faces a fresh controversy as a court today summoned him for allegedly sending "blank" SMSes to a woman from his cellphone. Joseph, a Kerala Congress (M) nominee in the Congress-led UDF Ministry, was asked by first class judicial magistrate Ravi Chand of Thodupuzha in I
UK police are seeking a court order to make the Guardian newspaper disclose their confidential sources that sparked the phone-hacking scandal centered around Rupert Murdoch`s media empire in the country. The British daily Guardian`s revelation in July that police had never properly pursued the News of the World for hacking the phone of a missing murdered girl caused a wave of pub
Popular internet search engine Google and websites like YouTube could be shut down in Pakistan if they did not cooperate with authorities investigating crimes and incidents of terrorism, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has warned. Malik made the remarks at the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency here while interacting with reporters. He urged the websit
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent years as a prisoner in her own home with no telephone or Internet access, says now she is free she is too busy to use Facebook and Twitter. "I just haven`t had the time," the Nobel Peace Prize winner told AFP in an interview at her party offices in Yangon. "If I were to tweet and so on it would take
The number of phones and email accounts being tapped in the country nearly doubled during the month of July, with central security agencies making fresh requests for monitoring 3,420 phone lines and 465 email accounts. A total of 4,350 phone lines and 501 email addresses were under surveillance and fresh orders were received from the Home Secretary recently for monitoring of an a
Passengers at Dubai airport will soon be spared of time-consuming immigration clearance procedures as `smart electronic gates`, which will solve the purpose in just 14 seconds, are being set up, according to authorities who expect around 90 million visitors here in next two years. The smart e-gate, expected to come up by next year, will have a passport reader, which will instantl
The core committee on IT, set up by the West Bengal government under the chairmanship of technocrat Sam Pitroda, today said a baseline study was needed to assess the status of the state vis-a-vis its peers. At its first meeting here, the committee also decided to set up various working groups covering areas such as education and infrastructure to push the growth of technology sec
The Telecom Ministry has asked state-owned TCIL to revisit the proposal to exit from its joint venture with Bharti Group in Rajasthan, as it has not received any dividend despite the JV making profits since 2009-10. Bharti Hexacom, a joint venture between Bharti airtel and TCIL, offers mobile services in Rajasthan. Bharti owns a 70 per cent stake in the JV and the remaining 30 pe
A hi-tech resource centre, set up here jointly under a USD 2 million grant by India to Vietnam to train students and professionals in IT-related areas, was inaugurated today by External Affairs Minister S M Krishna. "I am delighted to inaugurate a modern temple of learning, the Vietnam-India Advanced Resource Centre in Information and Communication Technology," said Kri
The Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot today said the Centre has given special emphasis on developing IT infrastructure in the North-east to bridge the gap in digital divide and there would be no dearth of fund for the purpose. Launching distribution of "Aadhaar" or unique identification number for the north eastern region
Japanese imaging solutions provider Ricoh, which recently made a foray into the Indian IT sector, is eyeing nearly Rs 250 crore in revenues from this venture by 2012-13, a senior company official has said. The Japanese company also said it plans to become a Rs 1,000 crore firm in India by FY`13 and is looking to garner nearly 25 per cent of its revenues from its IT business.
The Government will now track down expectant mothers and newborns across the country to know the status of their immunisation under the recently-launched Mother and Child Tracking scheme. The Health Ministry will appoint a panel of doctors in its Central Monitoring Cell within the scheme, which seeks to track down every single pregnant woman and newborn for progress on vaccinatio
A GPS-based passenger information system will be installed in the Mumbai and Howrah Rajdhanis from this month, enabling passengers to find out the exact location, speed and arrival time of trains on real-time basis. GPS receivers are being acquired to be installed and once the installation is completed, the Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation (SIMRAN) system will be operational
Unable to stick to the time frame to complete proceedings in the trial against former Satyam chief B Ramalinga Raju and nine others accused in the multi-crore Satyam accounting fraud case, CBI has approached the Supreme Court seeking more time to complete the task. In an interim application filed by the investigating agency, the CBI submitted that it would complete the trial proc
With an aim to achieve "zero pendency" of files, Rural Development department of Maharashtra Government has issued an order saying that every employee and officer should take decisions on matters within seven days. Priority should be accorded to files based on urgency of the matter and should be disposed off in a day of two, the Government Resolution (GR) said.
Police today asked cyber cafe owners here to keep a record of internet users after a HUJI e-mail sent from a cyber cafe in Kishtwar district claimed responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast. "We have asked over 200 cyber cafes in Jammu to maintain records of the internet users in their cafes," Senior SP Anand Jain told reporters here. He said they ha
