A Rajya Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir has fallen victim to cyber crime with an unidentified person hacking his account in a social networking website. G N Ratanpuri, an MP of Farooq Abdullah-le National Conference, approached Delhi Police`s Economic Offences Wing to register a complaint in this regard. "My Facebook account by the name G N Ratanpuri has been hacked by
The government is taking mobile governance seriously. In addition of putting up a draft of the RFP on scaling the mobile services delivery gateway (MSDG) to get suggestions from various stakeholders for a precise tender contract, it has also started a contest on development of the best mobile application on public or government services with a cash money prize of Rs 1 lakh.
After the successful rollout of e-governance which has brought various public services to the computer terminals of the citizens, the next big plan of the government is to step up the mobile governance. The Mobile Seva Project, the single Mobile Service Delivery Gateway (MSDG) through which the citizen services will be provided to the citizens through SMS, IVRS or mobile a
Kapil Sibal, minister of communications and IT, launched the national internet registry (NIR) at Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday. The NIR has been launched under the national internet exchange (NIXI) and will facilitate allocating the IP addresses in India. It will be called ‘Indian registry for internet names and numbers’ (IRINN) in India. NIXI was recognised by As
iYogi, a company specialising in providing tech support services to businesses, on Wednesday partnered with NICE process analytics to be better able to analyse data for its business in the future. Raghav Sahgal from NICE said that the company currently works with technology to analyse masses of information for security related data provided by such places at airports, metros and parliam
Having spent thousands of crores on several e-governance projects, the government is eventually planning to measure its effectiveness through transactions. The idea is to aggregate data on (online) services delivery transactions – at the state and central level—and put it on public domain. In couple of weeks, according to officials of the department of electronics and inform
A website to help Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to pay the fee for filing RTI applications through e-postal order is all set to be launched by this month end. The website will have an option for NRIs to pay the fee of Rs 10 via credit or debit cards to the government while exercising their Right to Information, official sources said. The Department of Personnel and Training, which
JD(U) is using the social media platform to garner support for its March 17 rally in Delhi in support of its demand for special category status to Bihar. The party has started a campaign `Bihar ka haq` on Facebook to draw people mainly of Bihar origin from across the world for the demand, senior JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha, who is close to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and has designed the pa
About 20,000 colleges across the country would be soon connected through video conferencing software which will enable students to attend lectures of well known faculties through online classes. The decision by the central government was followed by a meeting recently between Higher Education Secretary Ashok Thakur and 60 vice chancellors of colleges and universities from across the cou
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that by the end of calendar year, Railways would put in place a Next Generation e-ticketing system which would bring about a "paradigm shift in internet rail ticketing". Mr Bansal announced in the Lok Sabha that a project of SMS alerts to passengers providing updates on reservation status is being rolled out. The Minister said t
Cyber frauds have emerged as a major challenge to the banking sector. Around 8,322 banking frauds cases, involving Rs 52 crore, were reported in 2012, as against 9588 cases involving Rs 36 crore in 2011. In total, cyber frauds involving over Rs 200 crore were reported in last four years. The information was provided by minister of state for finance, Namo Narian Meena, while he replied,
The government`s ambitious national knowledge network project will be implemented within a year. The Rs 5,000-crore project aims to integrate 1,500 research and academic institutions to enable research students and others to interact and keep themselves abreast of development in their respective areas, according to a PTI report. The report quoted R Chidambaram, principal scienti
Assam needs to expedite the pace of public service delivery by simplifying administrative procedures, the World Bank (WB) has told the state government. In a meeting with state chief minister Tarun Gogoi, a four-member WB delegation led by Grace Morgan discussed issues regarding administrative reforms and capacity building, according to a report in Business Line.
Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh will soon have a National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) centre, union minister of state for communications Killi Kruparani has said. She said nearly Rs 50 crore will be allocated for the project. According to a report in Business Line newspaper, NIELIT has 23 centres across the country at present, though
Even as the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has a target to cover the entire population of Bengaluru in one year, inadequate enrollment centres, slow speed of enrollments and cumbersome processes has made it unlikely for the authority to achieve its target. Moreover, this has led to harassment for the residents, who have to wait in queues for more than five hours for enro
Coimbatore residents can now calculate their property tax online, thanks to a couple of value addition on the portal of Coimbatore Corporation, according to a report published in The Hindu. "The new feature relates to property tax and lets the assessee know how the civic body calculates the same," commissioner in-charge S Sivarasu told the daily. An applicant has
E-governance is passé, at least in Kerala. At least in design and in thinking. PH Kurian, principal secretary, IT, with the Kerala government, said that the model of a digital society is unique to Kerala. “It was accepted by the state cabinet in June last year and is the last layer of the e-governance model,” he said. The e-governance model is three layered, e-government, e-g
Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) today organised a national workshop on “Electronic System Design and Manufacturing: Advantage Goa” under the aegis of the department of electronics and information technology (DEITY) and the government of Goa. Inaugurating the workshop, chief minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar promised all suppo
"NeGP has been a good success; 23 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) have started delivering services, ICT infrastructure has been laid sufficiently," Rajendra Kumar, joint secretary (eGov), department of electronics and information technology (DeitY), government of India, said, while elucidating the performance of the national e-governance plan (NeGP) after seven years of its launch.
Kerala will be the first state to achieve 100 per cent enrolment, if not by March then certainly by June, according to P Bala Kiran, deputy secretary, IT, government of Kerala. "2.2 crore residents out of 3.3crore have got their Aadhaar cards; 2.9 crore have been enrolled for either Aadhaar or NPR in the state," he said. "The future is going
