A head of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), Shankar Aggarwal is responsible for realising the government’s vision to make services accessible to the common man through the use of information and communications technology. Aggarwal, a 1980 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre and additional secretary (e-Governance), Department of Information Technology (DIT),
Indian IT and Telecom solution provider company Prithvi Information has set a revenue target of USD 600 million (Rs 2700 crore) by end of financial year 2012-13 on expectations of high growth in various segments of the sector. "We are in last stage of consolidation. From now onward we expect organic growth of our company to increase. We are over USD 425 million (Rs 1914.45 cr) in t
Delhi Government today said it will complete the process of registration for issuance of Aadhaar identification numbers to people in the city by October. Divisional Commissioner Dharmendra said already 5.4 lakh people, including 70,000 homeless people have been registered in the city for the issuance of Aadhaar numbers. "Currently registration process was going on in two disricts.
The primary schools under MCD will be linked to the civic body`s Education Department headquarters and zonal offices through internet by July, a move that is expected to boost monitoring of their activities. Chairman of MCD Education Committee Mahinder Nagpal today said this will also help in ensuring transparency in the functioning of teachers. Nagpal said that with the introduction of
Bangalore-headquartered Vijaya Bank today launched a new variant of its debit card product called V-Insta Debit card. This is one of the variants of its Alternate delivery channel products and issued in association with VISA international. The bank`s CMD, H S Upendra Kamath, said: "The future days of banking will be `Green Banking` (paper less banking) using advanced safe and secur
Leading network and application services provider Net4India`s consolidated net profit rose 84 per cent at Rs 21.13-crore for FY 11 as against Rs 11.50-crore in the previous fiscal. The overall sales for the year stood at Rs 304-crore, up 56 per cent from 195-crore in FY 10. "The growth this year came in from across all our service offerings with a robust demand coming from the clie
The country`s third-largest software exporter Wipro today said it has got a scrutiny notice from the Income Tax Department for the assessment year 2008-09. "As a part of regular assessment proceedings for assessment year 2008-09, we have received a notice from the Tax Officer seeking details," the company said in a statement. Though Wipro did not provide details of the notice,
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Chennai-based M S Swaminathan Research Foundation will organise a seminar in Chennai on mobile applications in September that will recommend suggestions for service providers and applications developers on the kind of content and technology via mobile phone to people. "Usually, it is the product that we have which determines our use. But this semi
The company board of Indian telecom equipment maker Kavveri Telecom on Monday approved the acquisition of an RF (radio frequency) company in Europe. "We can not disclose the name of company at the moment but I can say that it has very good RF technology. The revenues of company is around Euros 15 million," Shivakumar Reddy, Managing Director, Kavveri Telecom Products told PTI.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is making fast progress with the rollout of the uniform national payment card and launched the first such card with a regional rural bank on Monday in Varanasi. "We have launched the first gramin bank ATM card with the Kashi Gomti Samyut Gramin Bank in association with Union Bank of India in Varanasi today. The card is called RuPay
The economic offences are more serious than usual crime, directed against a person, as they affect the country and put a question mark on its governance, the Delhi High Court said on Monday while dismissing the bail plea of five corporate honchos in the 2G case. "The offences against body or property generally affect one or a few victims but the economic offences involving exploita
Reliance ADAG executives not only created a "web of companies" but also conspired to circumvent the DoT policy to get maximum out of the 2G scam, the Delhi High Court on Monday said while refusing them bail in the case. ADAG Group MD Gautam Doshi, its Group President Surendra Pipara and Vice-President Hari Nair, who were named as accused in the first chargesheet by CBI, were &
Karnataka Government has decided to install jammers in all jails to curb usage of mobile phones by criminals while in custody, state Home Minister R Ashoka said on Saturday. "It has come to the knowledge of the government that criminals lodged in jails continue their illegal activities and planned to attack their rivals in jails with the help of mobile phones, he said after releasi
US-based software solutions provider Epicor Software Corporation today said it has joined hands with the Hinduja Group to re-enter the Indian market with the launch of its next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution Epicor 9. Epicor is a global leader delivering business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. The company en
Computers may have become a necessity for today`s kids, but a study says that the machines are producing a "generation of weaklings" as children swap outdoor play for screen games and the Internet. The study of 10-year-olds found that the number of sit-ups they could do dropped nearly 30 per cent between 1998 and 2008. And, while only one in 20 kids failed to hold their own we
Private sector lender Axis Bank on Monday announced the launch of `MY MONEY CARD`, an innovative money management tool aimed at the youth. The Card is a prepaid, re-loadable, rupee-denominated card on the VISA platform which enables parents to disburse money to their children staying away from home. The Card can be used for cash withdrawals at ATMs, POS transactions at VISA enabled term
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Saturday said a cyber cell would be set up in each police station in the state to deal with the rising number of cyber and IT crimes. "We will set up cyber cell in all the police stations," Nishank told reporters here. He said there would be coordination between cyber cells at the district and state levels. In this
In a rare honour, Bharti Group chief Sunil Mittal has been invited to the first-ever meet on Internet to be held under the purview of Group of Eight (G-8) industrialised nations later this month in France. Mittal has received the invitation for the meet from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is the current head of the G-8 grouping. "In my current capacity as President of the G-
Doordarshan`s free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) service aims to have a pack of 200 channels on its platform by the end of this year, in a move which could trigger competition and a slash in monthly subscription by other service providers in this space. Currently, DD`s DTH service carries 57 channels including 21 Doordarshan channels and a bouquet of private channels apart from 21 channels of All
In an indication of its turnaround process, IT firm Mahindra Satyam on Monday said it will hire nearly 17,000 people this fiscal as business sentiment improves for the country`s IT industry. "We will hire more than 12,000 people this fiscal and another 5,000 will be hired from campuses, either from engineering or management colleges," Mahindra Satyam, Head of recruitment, M V
