Datawind, the maker of Aakash tablet PC, has said it will clear all backlog of paid orders for the commercial version of tablet within next six weeks. "All the paid orders (for tablets with) resistive and capacitative (screens) without SIM will be cleared in next 10 days. But the ones that want tablet with SIM they will be cleared in the next 4 to 6 weeks," DataWind CEO Suneet
The Goa government-owned sugar factory has told the State Pollution Control Board that it runs short of finances to install online air ambient quality monitoring system which is mandatory as per the guidelines of the board. Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd, a state government venture, in its reply to the show-cause notice by Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), has sa
The other major factor, for the tepid response to 2G spectrum, was that 3G spectrum, which was not in existence in 2008, is available now and 4G is also going to be in place soon, Yechury said. "Both the government and the corporates have vested interest in keeping the (2G spectrum) prices low. They want the auction of excess spectrum to be held in low prices. The lower the
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said Department of Posts and state-run BSNL should waive-off fees charged on money transfers by people in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, under the Mobile Money Transfer Service launched on Thursday. ??"I would urge the two departments, as a first step before revising the transaction cost... to ensure that BPL category people, when th
Marking the `13th Foundation Day` of Jharkhand, Chief Minister Arjun Munda today announced that students who pass matriculation would get tablet computers. ?"To prepare the youth to face challenges of the 21st century, tablets would be given to students who have passed matriculation. Talks to this effect are on with the Centre," Munda said while addressing a function on the oc
Odisha today became the first state to roll out electronic fund management system (e-FMS) for payment of wages to MGNREGA workers with bank accounts. This was jointly announced by Finance minister Prasanna Acharya and Panchayati Raj minister Kalpataru Das in presence of RBI`s Deputy Governor Harun Rashid Khan, Finance Secretary J K Mohapatra and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Rural
The IT industry will do exceedingly well in 2013-14 and is expected to meet its projected estimate of 11-14 percent lower end growth in the current financial year, Nasscom has said. IT sector has crossed UD$100 billion mark last year and is expected to reach at least double-digit growth this year, it has said. “The IT-BPM (information technology-business process management
An Odisha minister on Tuesday dubbed as impractical direct electronic cash transfer of subsidies to beneficiaries in backward regions. "How can it be possible when a large number of people in Odisha do not have bank accounts?" Odisha`s Food minister P K Deb questioned. "The basic objective of the public distribution system to arrest hunger among the poor will be d
RailTel, the telecom arm of Railways, is set to provide optical fibre-based broadband network in neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Bhutan. "We are in the process of getting the Rs 80-crore job for providing broadband network in Bangladesh and Rs 10 crore worth contract in Bhutan," said a senior RailTel official. RailTel was created in September 2000 to support
The advanced version of low cost tablet Aakash was launched in Delhi on Sunday by President Pranab Mukherjee. Coming at a price tag of Rs 1,130 for students, the new version `Aakash 2`, which will be made available to students of engineering colleges and universities to begin with, is now powered by a processor running at 1 GHz, has a 512 MB, a 7 inch capacitative touch screen and a bat
With nearly 1,800 mobile phone towers in the metropolis being illegal, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is contemplating action against their operators,BMC Commissioner Sitaram Kunte has said. The BMC has also assured that it would amend its policy on mobile towers and would see to it that not more than two towers were installed on a building. The issue of health hazards d
Google has said that the number of government requests to hand over data from users or to take down web content rose in the first six months of 2012, extending a trend of recent years. In the first half of 2012, Google received 20,938 requests for data from government entities around the world related to 34,614 accounts, according to the US tech giant`s semiannual Transparency Report. T
Integrating unique identification number project "Aadhaar" with various social sector schemes like rural employment guarantee programme and PDS, would yield rich dividends for the government, says a study. According to cost benefit analysis study done by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), the investment on Aadhaar project would provide a return of as
As many as 784 police offices and 581 police stations in Odisha will be covered under the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) of the Central government. Offices of DSP/SDPO, SP, DIG and DG would also be connected through the CCTNS, Director of State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) M Akhaya said here today. The nearly Rs 50-crore programme, taken up under National
Punjab government has provided LCDs and computers in 500 government schools in the state, for which training would be imparted to teachers. The training would commence from November 19 in all the districts of the state, an official spokesman said on Saturday. In the schools where such facilities have been given, teachers would be given training to use the systems and to file a c
The ambitious electronic Direct Cash Transfer scheme, aimed at curtailing corruption in distribution of subsidised items, will be rolled out from January one next year and the entire India will be covered by April 2014. It will be based on the payment platform of Aadhaar which is also to be rolled out speedily in line with the scheme. These decisions were taken on Friday at a me
Over 4,300 new auto-rickshaws fitted with global positioning systems (GPS) have hit the city roads in the last one month, Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami said on Friday. He said another 7,700 auto-rickshaws will soon be made available. Delhi government had started the process for issuance of 12,000 new permits for auto-rickshaws in September, almost a year after the Su
The application of unique identification number, Aadhaar, is not just limited to cleaning the public service delivery system and preventing fraud and fixing leakages. It could install "trust" and authenticate an individual as "real person" in cyber space too. According to a white paper yet to be formally released by the unique identification authority of India (UIDA
The data sharing policy, which aims to increase the accessibility of central government owned data to the public for better planning and development, has got a new buyer - the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI). The authority, confirming to the policy, has launched `public data portal`, hosting "anonymised" data on Aadhaar enrollment and authentication, based on ge
