With an aim to give impetus to the information technology (IT) industry, Madhya Pradesh government has decided to give land to IT companies on a 99-year lease period instead of the present 33 years. The state government has issued orders for making this amendment in the Information Technology policy, official sources said on Thursday. Now, land to industrial houses making invest
Indian Government has no plan to manage content on Internet but there should be a mechanism to redress complaints of aggrieved citizens, Telecom and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday. He also asserted the country has the sovereign right to bring all media networks, including social media, under Indian laws. "The government will not be involved in man
Enterprise data services provider Tulip Telecom on Wednesday said it has bagged a Rs 87.23-crore order for hosting data centre space from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Under the three-year contract, Tulip Telecom will host UIDAI servers from `Tulip Data City` based out of Bangalore, Tulip said in a statement. The duration of this project is for three year
The government has introduced e-procurement system in public sector units under the industries department from tomorrow to make available services and raw materials required by them, an official press release in Thiruvananthapuram said. The system had been set up with the technical assistance of National Informatic Centre. The arrangement was being made to make more transparent
As part of efforts to enhance maritime security, the Centre today launched the Rs 132 crore National Automatic Identification System (NAIS), which will ensure effective search and co-ordination besides broadcasting warnings to merchant ships. Describing the project as the "most important component of coastal surveillance," by the union Government, Shipping Minister G K Vasan s
Highlighting that mobile services were not impacted by the worst ever blackout, GSM industry body COAI on Thursday asked the government to address the issues faced by operators to avoid a situation similar to what happened in the power sector. "The major failures in the power supply grids of the North and East zones had brought the daily lives of more than 60 crore people and busin
Workers under the MNREGA across the country would soon get their payments directly, a step taken by the Government to weed out corruption in the ambitious rural job guarantee scheme. "It will check bogus identity. It will reduce delayed payments. It will bring payments to the beneficiary rather than the beneficiary coming to the payments," Rural Development Minister Jairam Ram
GPS equipped motorcycles, CCTV- fitted cars and reflective jackets are some of the steps taken by the Punjab government to modernise the state police. Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today approved an ambitious Rs 112 crore modernisation plan for the state police, an official said here. Under the project, Rapid Rural Police Response System would get 585 GPS equipped mo
NIIT Technologies Ltd, an IT solutions provider, has bagged a Rs 35-crore order from the Tobacco Board to implement e-auction of tobacco in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. G Kamala Varhana Rao, Chairman of the Board, said NIIT will implement an IT solution in 100 days that will facilitate e-auction of tobacco and eliminate market intermediaries. e-Auction is likely to start in Nov
Mumbaikars can soon log on to the internet to post their grievances and suggestions with regard to traffic woes. The Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to set up websites for the recently formed high powered committee and zonal sub-committees to address the city`s traffic problems within two weeks. On June 6, the state government had formed a high powere
The Uttarakhand government has sanctioned a sum of Rs 76.23 crore as part of its efforts to expand the network of e-governance in the state. The state would also have its own data centre by the end of this year and the initial proceedings in this regard have been completed with the help of software firm Wipro, said an official release. Chairing a meeting of state project executi
Postal Department is launching an instant money remittance scheme, mobile remittance scheme, in tie-up with the BSNL infrastructure by next month, Chief Postmaster General (Kerala Circle) Sobha Koshy said on Sunday. In the first phase the scheme will be implemented in selected states like Kerala, Bihar, New Delhi and Punjab, Mr Koshy told reporters after releasing a special postal cover
In yet another move to provide clarity on taxation issues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday set up a committee to look into such matters pertaining to IT sector and research and development related activities. The panel, headed by former Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman N Rangachary, will be in addition to the one set up to review the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GA
As many as 80,000 cyber crime related complaints have been registered with police in Kerala in the last one year, of which 50,000 relate to harassment of women through new hi-tech devices, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said in Thiruvanathapuram on Monday. He told reporters here that the number of cyber crimes are on the increase in the state with 80,000 complaints lodged in
The objective with which the Madhya Pradesh government had implemented Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act seems to be moving towards its fulfillment with eight states replicating it. The eight states which have replicated the Act are Bihar, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand, an official release said in Bhopal on Tuesday. Not
A conference to discuss the challenges in cyber security was organised in the capital on Sunday. The conference witnessed deliberations between black hat hackers and government cyber security experts. It laid emphasis on how to secure and manage information against risks more efficiently. During the conference, the cyber security experts observed that applications on platforms, such as
Karnataka government would instal CCTV cameras at strategic locations here and in other major cities of the State to help detect incidents of crime, Home Minister R Ashoka said on Thursday. "The process is on to instal CCTV cameras in (different) circles of the city, as also in Mysore and Bellary. We will instal them in different places....smaller cities", he told the Assembly
Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) on Thursday announced that it has tied up with Mojostreet, a mobile application provider which helps people discover tourist locations nearby. "The partnership will make it easier for tourists to find information about nearby tourists spots, hotels, restaurants, banks, travel agencies and much more their mobile phones," AP
Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to computerise records of 15,000 Wakf properties. It is also the first state where Rs 80 lakh grant is given to Wakf Board, an official release said in Bhopal on Thursday. Madhya Pradesh Wakf Board has 14,702 properties in the form of mosques, burial grounds and dargahs, worth about Rs 52,000 crore and is nearing the top s
As many as 44,000 multiple user IDs have been deactivated by IRCTC in its efforts to weed out agents from unscrupulously cornering general and Tatkal train tickets through the e-ticketing system. "We have launched a concerted drive against unscrupulous agents and deactivated 44,000 multiple user IDs till now. A handful of agents were trying to corner the tickets through these IDs c
