After setting a target of training one million youths in various employable skills in the next five years, Odisha government on Monday initiated steps for establishment of international standard Multi Skill Development Centers (MDC) in the state, official sources said. "It has been decided that two such Centers, one at Jatani in Khurda and another at Berhampur in Ganjam district wi
To introduce the usage of information technology at peoples` doorstep in rural and mountainous belts in Kashmir, the state Government has set up Khidmat Centres and Community Information Centres (CICs) in the state. The Community Information Centres are in 135 Blocks and 646 Khidmat Centres are functional in Jammu and Kashmir to provide common services to the people, officials of
Competition watchdog CCI has asked its investigation arm to probe the alleged discriminatory practices by global search engine Google relating to its AdWords, sources said. The investigation, according to sources, was ordered after the Competition Commission of India (CCI) found "prima facie evidence" that Google has abused its dominant market position by being discrimi
Content-sharing site SlideShare, acquired by LinkedIn, is hiring for various positions in India and San Francisco. Co-founded by two Indians, SlideShare is being acquired by world`s largest professional networking site LinkedIn for about USD 119 million. SlideShare is recruiting people for as many as 23 positions and about 18 of them are in New Delhi. The company a
The mushrooming of unregistered Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or Internet Telephony has become a security problem as the origin of caller and time of call cannot be ascertained prompting central agencies to ask service providers to come up with a solution within a month. A series of meetings between security agencies, Department of Telecom, National Technical Research Organ
Internet revolution has bypassed rural India with less than half a per cent of families having the facility at home as against 6 per cent in cities, reveals a government survey. "At all India level only about 0.4 per cent of rural households had access to Internet at home as compared to about 6 per cent of urban households," said the National Sample Survey Organisation
President Pratibha Patil on Monday laid the foundation stone for an IT Centre at the Phoenix Settlement in Durban, giving fillip to South Africa`s education sector and capacity building. "This is an important step forward in India`s effort to help generate good quality, cost effective and relevant higher education and skills," Patil said while laying the foundation ston
In order to bring in transparency and accountability in the administration of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), the Maharashtra government has prepared a social network campaign to enable the department to open a communication channel with the stakeholders. State EGS Minister Nitin Raut told PTI that the pilot project will be launched from the EGS commissionerate in Nagpur o
Telecom operator Idea Cellular has added the maximum number of subscribers at 3.32 million due to mobile number portability (MNP) followed by Vodafone (2.89 million) and Airtel (1.21 million) as on March 31, 2012. "Idea Cellular received 9.29 million port-in requests compared to 5.97 million port-out requests, while 11.04 million users wanted to join Vodafone as compared to 8.15 mi
A few days after chiefs of leading telecom companies promised Kapil Sibal solid proof on possible doubling of tariffs, telecom industry body COAI has now said it will first review and analyse Trai`s claim of minimal hike in call rates. "We are going to review and analyse Trai`s calculation. We are trying to find out what is their assumption and what is their calculation methodology
The government has issued close to 45,000 notices to unregistered telemarketers and disconnected nearly 28,000 telephones till April 24 for sending pesky calls and SMSs using private numbers. "The government is aware that several calls and SMSs are being sent from private numbers... 44,810 notices have been issued to unregistered telemarketers and 27,984 telephones have been discon
Top five India-based IT services providers grew 23.8 per cent last year compared to 7.7 per cent growth logged by the overall global IT services market, research firm Gartner said on Monday. Nasdaq-listed Cognizant, which displaced Wipro to become the third-largest Indian IT services provider recently, experienced the highest growth rate of 33.3 per cent amongst the top five IT service
The Centre is planning to draft a legislation to regulate online media and is already holding consultations with the opposition over the matter, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said here today. "The government is planning to impose restrictions on online media and has sought our views on how to go about it. Serious discussions are going on. We want freedom of spee
More than 70 per cent Indians surveyed use online channels in dealing with government services and they want more channels in the future, says a study by IT major Accenture. "...More than 70 per cent respondents use Internet for submitting and tracking government forms and payments and 53 per cent say they want to use more online channels in the future," the study said.
China will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder`s personal informations. The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chip containing informations like the cardholder`s name, his date of birth, photograph and finger prints will be installed in them, a statement by Ministry of Public Security said toda
In an attempt to clamp down on black-marketeering, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today directed officials to ensure that essential commodities reach the beneficiaries at fixed price. During a meeting to review public distribution system, Yadav directed the officials to bring transparency in allotment, lifting and distribution of essential commodities.
Manipur is the first state in the country to complete the implementation of four core infrastructural components of national e-governance plan (NeGP), namely, the common services centre(CSC), state data centre (SDC), the state wide area network (SWAN) and the state service delivery gateway (SSDG). It, however, lags behind most other states in the usage of the created infrastructure. The i
Ending hassles of employers in payment of EPF subscription of employees, the government today started an electronic mechanism that promises to bring transparency and accessibility. The initiative, launched by Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, offers an opportunity to employers to file their returns online from anywhere and anytime. "The hassle
The government has extended integrated online visa application system, which offers secure and hassle-free travel documents to foreigners, to eight more overseas destinations, including Chicago, Perth and Tehran. The Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) system has been made operational at Indian missions at Perth in Australia, Houston and Chicago in
Unique Identification (UID) Number project was launched in Gujarat today with the officials taking biometric fingerprints of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. R S Sharma, Director General of the Government of India`s UID project, took the biometric fingerprints of Modi for his identity card and registered him under the project. The Chief Minister expressed the state go
