NASSCOM Foundation, the social development arm of NASSCOM, today announced Saksham, the scholarship management system of the National informatics Centre (NIC) Lucknow as the winners of the Social Innovation Honours 2013. The awards, organised in partnership with Genpact, celebrate innovations that promise to bring social change in India. Participants from across public, private and not-
`Spiderman`,`Chinaking`...These are not Hollywood blockbusters. Rather they are two software programmes related to cellular technology that are giving a headache to central security agencies. These software programmes are believed to help in changing International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) of mobile phones manufactured from China. The IMEI number is a 15-digit uni
Election campaign for the February 23 Assembly polls in Meghalaya through SMSes or through social networking websites will be under the scanner of the Election Commission. "The social network could be used for `pay and promote posts` by aspiring candidates and such posts would be considered as advertisements and included in the election expenditure of the concerned candidate,"
Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva will inaugurate 16th national conference on e-governance in Jaipur on February 11. The annual conference is jointly organised by departments of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) and electronics and information technology (DEITY), government of India. During the two-day conference, the government will also confer nat
With the help of `Eklavya-V`, a software slated to be brought into operation from February 5, the Ahmedabad police will be able to easily get all the information about the vehicles seized by them. Using this software, police will be able to send messages about such vehicles to the Crime Branch, which will subsequently SMS the details to the concerned policeman. "If a police
Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of notices to state and Central governments on PIL relating to section 66 A of the Information Technology Act. A division bench headed by acting Chief Justice K Sreedhar Rao also ordered issue of notices to social networking sites Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter in response to the petition filed by Rohan Bhammar and Varun Nair, two law grad
Going with the Centres National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) for complete automation of the commercial tax administration of all states and union territories, the Arunachal Pradesh department of Tax and Excise is all set to implement the same under Mission Mode Project for Computerization of Commercial Tax (MMPCT). Joint Commissioner, Tax & Excise T Jongkey said this yesterday during a
Under attack for loopholes in regulation of public transport in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has issued directions to install alarm system in all DTC buses so that women travelling on them can use the facility whenever in distress. While reviewing the functioning of the Transport department at a meeting, Dikshit asked it to improve enforcement of various laws to ensure
Social media may have grown massively blurring lines between print and broadcasting but regulations have not been able to keep pace with technological developments, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said on Tuesday. Speaking at a function organised by Amity University in Noida, he said the growth of social media has reshaped the communication paradigm in the past five
Any customer applying for a second mobile connection in Jammu and Kashmir will be under police scrutiny from February one. In case police fails to submit its reply within next 10 days, the Telecom operator can issue the second connection, a Department of Telecommunication (DoT) communication to telecom operators in the state said. Besides, public sector undertaking BSNL, other o
Hughes Communications India (HCI) has received a contract worth Rs 24.6 crore from Punjab government. Hughes will supply and operate satellite-based network to deliver content to students in educational institutions throughout the state, HCI said in a statement. Hughes will connect about 2,960 schools with educational content and lectures either pre-recorded or set up as live te
To provide one-stop clearance platform for investment proposals, government launched an online portal `eBiz`, developed by IT major Infosys on January 28 in Agra. `eBiz` will provide all business and investment related regulatory services across central, state and local governments on a single platform. "This project aims to create a business and investor friendly ecosystem in In
To strengthen its surveillance efforts, the Corporate Affairs Ministry has plans to establish a data analysis and dissemination system for companies registered in the country. Such a plan, also aimed at bringing in more transparency, comes against the backdrop of instances of corporate frauds and misappropriation of money through registered companies coming to the light. The Min
The Central Information Commission (CIC) which regularly asks government offices to promote transparency by placing information on their web portals is struggling to update its own website and has put the onus of poor maintenance on Data Entry Operators - contractual employees at a very basic level. The commission in its recent meeting threatened to deduct salaries of data entry operato
To provide one-stop clearance platform for investment proposals, government has launched an online portal `eBiz`, developed by IT major Infosys. `eBiz` will provide all business and investment related regulatory services across central, state and local governments on a single platform. "This project aims to create a business and investor friendly ecosystem in India ... ther
In the face of stiff opposition from trade unions, retirement fund body Employees` Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) may put "in abeyance" its decision to make it mandatory to furnish Aadhaar number for its over 50 million subscribers and new members. "Amid the pressure from trade unions, the EPFO is likely to put in abeyance its office order issued to field staff for co
The growing presence of Chinese telecom companies in Maldives and Nepal has put security agencies on alert over fears their equipment used for infrastructure development there might be bugged and misused for intercepting any communication between India and the two countries. The concerns by the Central Security agencies which have been conveyed to the Telecom Department here came agains
The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the US Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch, was taken over early today and replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed.
Chandigarh police has rolled out an online crime tracking mechanism that will help in increasing efficiency of the law-enforcement agency through the use of information technology. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), which is part of the National E-Governance Plan, will help keeping a track of the anti-social elements by maintaining their crime records, besides
