Security of the state Internet network being used by central and local administrations will be beefed up, the home affairs ministry said today, after the country came under a massive cyber attack, known as the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, early this month. The Ministry of Public Administration and Security said it will put intranets of city, county and ward offices as wel
BJP legislator Damodar Naik today expressed his anguish over uploading of his and Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat`s pictures on a porn website. Raising the issue in the state assembly, Naik said a clipping of his speech against the website and Kamat`s reply during the last assembly session was uploaded on this website. Naik had raised the issue about the website portraying Goan
In first such project in the country, Delhi government has nearly completed digitisation and mapping of all underground and overground assets like telephone lines, water pipes and other public utilities in three-dimensional digital format. Under the project, the government will soon unveil a unique portal comprising images and digital details of all the overground and underground utiliti
The Bihar government will begin distributing health cards under the New Generation Health Guarantee scheme, to 3.4 crore children from tomorrow. The health cards would be distributed to children till 14 years of age and special camps would be organized in government schools and sub-primary health centres (SPHCs) throughout the state for the purpose, Principal Secretary (Health) Amarjeet
What happens inside a jail has traditionally always been a taboo. There is severe sense of beliefs, some of them even uncanny, about jails. Prisoners living in extreme inhuman conditions with no freedom to - forget anything else - even think freely is what we know as the reality. Amidst this, for a jail administration to dare think of being in full public glare 24x7, serving itself on the platt
Not satisfied with the services you get from the nation`s largest lender SBI and want to get back to the bank on the same? Forget the pen and paper to write it down or even email the same; just message "Unhappy" and your issue will be resolved within 48 hours. After seeing the huge response for the scheme, which has been on pilot test since October last year at select centres,
For better implementation of various e-governance initiatives, over 1,400 offices of the Haryana government have been connected with the State Wide Area Network (SWAN), an official spokesman said here today. Another key project involving setting up of the State Service Delivery Gateway is also being implemented. It would not only facilitate data-sharing, but would also bring about integr
J-K government today said that a project costing Rs 5.67 crore has been prepared for implementation of E-governance in municipal bodies in the state. Replying to a question in the Legislative Council, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development Nasir Aslam Wani said the department has hired the services of NIC for implementation of E-governance project and its applications includ
Search giant Google today accused the Chinese Government of blocking its Gmail service in the country, after month-long online disruption that coincided with an Internet campaign calling for protests like those in the Arab nations. Google started getting complaints about interruptions in access to Gmail service ever since the "Jasmine" uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt last month,
Aviva Life Insurance today announced a tie-up with Suvidhaa, a leading Services Commerce (S-Commerce) player in India, to launch its new payment renewal service across 500 cities and 10,000 touch-points. This service will provide Aviva customers a hassle-free option to walk into any Suvidhaa outlet, provide some basic information for verification and pay the renewal premium, a press rele
Indian entities have strong intentions of increasing their IT spending in 2011 as compared to their peers in China and many other nations in the Asia Pacific region, according to global research group Gartner. With Indian economy seeing good growth, spending on IT is expected to increase in the coming years, Gartner`s Research Analyst Yanna Dharmasthira said. "Among the Asia-
Fuelled by the sustained growth of the online travel industry, the Indian e-commerce market will gallop at an impressive growth rate of 47 per cent to over Rs 46,000 crore in the 2011 calendar year, a report said. "This growth is primarily driven by the online travel industry, which contributes 76 per cent to the total net commerce industry in India today," a report released by
Nearly 10,488 people from India donated USD 193,657.88 to Wikimedia Foundation/Wikimedia, during the annual fund raising making India as the sixth large donor to the organisation. United States ranked first with 328691 donors donating USD 10,038,417.59, according to Tinu Cherian, Wikipedian. In 2009/10, India ranked 16th in terms of donation with 2,956 individuals from India donat
The US military has procured a "spy software" which will let it secretly manipulate social media websites, like `Facebook` and `Twitter`, by using fake identities to spread propaganda, a media report said. The US Central Command has purchased the US dollars 2.7 million programme -- developed by San Diego firm Ntrepid -- which allows one military user to create multiple personas
In order to boost manufacturing of indigenous equipment, the Centre may extend preferential status to `Made in India` products in the New Telecom Policy, 2011 (NTP`11). "Broader telecom policy will include measures appropriate to encourage domestic telecom manufacturing. Some aspects have been considered by committee of secretaries, and preferential status for domestic manufacturers
Indian IT giants like TCS, Infosys and Wipro have decided to call back their employees from Bahrain, following the political unrest in the country. "The developments in Bahrain are unfortunate and we are closely monitoring the situation there. We have around 40 employees based out of Bahrain (60 expatriates including dependants)... Around 17 expatriate employees (36 people in
Just at the click of a mouse button, you can now get all of Earth`s data, thanks to researchers who have developed a software which reveals all historical and geological information about our planet. The free software, called GPlates1.0, developed by an international team led by Sydney University, allows anyone to easily visualise the Earth`s tectonic plates, continents and oceans far ba
India will showcase its unique mission to curb bio-piracy and share its experience of protecting traditional knowledge in front of representatives from 38 countries at an international conference here. The conference -- `Utilisation of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a Model for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge` -- will be inaugurated by Science and Technology
Bihar legislative council has undertaken modernisation of its library by digitalising the proceedings in the House since 1922 as part of its centenary celebrations, its chairman Tarakant Jha said today. The proceedings of the legislative council since 1922 as well as the books in the library will be digitalised for the posterity, he told the House. The council members may read boo
The Malaysian government has decided to introduce biometric registration for foreign visitors to tackle cases of forgery, overstaying and misuse of visas. The National Foreigners Enforcement and Registration System (NERS), to be introduced at all 96 entry points to monitor the arrival and departure of foreign visitors, will become effective June 1. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin
