From textbooks to your mobile screens, now science will be at everyone`s fingertips! Vigyan Prasar and IGNOU together have launched a free SMS service for mobile users that delivers content on science and related areas. The application -- Science@Mobile -- was launched as part of the two-day National Science Day celebrations by Director of Inter-University Acceler
Yahoo Inc has threatened action against Facebook if the the social networking giant does not pay licence fee for using technologies which the Internet search major claimed come under its intellectual property rights. "We must insist that Facebook either enter into a licensing agreement or we will be compelled to move forward unilaterally to protect our rights," Yahoo sa
India is looking at holding spectrum auctions for the fourth generation (4G) mobile services by the end of this year, besides finalising plans to sell off radio waves for the 2G services, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "By the end of the year, we are actually going to auction 4G (spectrum). That is what our intent is. We have enough spectrum now to share with everybo
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) will issue bio-metric cards to custom house agents in order to check frauds and misuse of services. "Bio-metric smart cards will be issued first in Mumbai in all the three Customs zones. Once this is rolled out, a fraudulent person will not be able to file the documents anywhere in the city as his fingerprint will not match and
In a first, the country`s premier institute AIIMS has given a 12-digit Unique Identification Number (UID) to 89,000 inhabitants of Ballabgarh block near Delhi in order to keep track of health care services being delivered to them. An initiative of the department of community medicine at AIIMS, this 12-digit useful identification facility was aimed at keeping a tab on proper deliv
Allaying fears of foreign electronics manufacturers, India has said it will not pursue protectionism policy and will give level-playing field to all participants. "Look at the policies of world around, we are far less protectionist than any other country in the world. There is no question of India becoming protectionist," Indian Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said.
The Sam Pitroda committee report on rail modernisation has recommended for setting up frequent identification (RFID) tracking system to track trains on real-time basis and to improve utilisation of their coaches, wagons and locomotives. Advocating complete computerisation of railways, the high-power committee has also strongly pitched for introducing e-file system to expedite dec
Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Africa arm of IT major Wipro, today said it has successfully completed digitisation of Employees` State Insurance Corporation`s (ESIC) operations, one of the biggest e-governance projects in the country. Wipro Infotech had bagged the Rs 1,182-crore six-and-a-half-year project `Panchdeep` in March 2009. "We are honoure
Voicing concerns of the publishing industry, the industry experts on Friday urged the government to include ‘copyright infringement’ as part of the copy right act 1957. The industry raised the issue of digital piracy during a seminar also attended by the representatives of the government`s copyright office. Agreeing to the concerns raised by the industry at the semina
The upgraded version of world`s cheapest computing device Aakash will be available at the same price to the students. The government will procure the upgraded version at the existing price of Rs 2,276 and it will be distributed among students at Rs 1,100 after subsidy. "This (Aakash 2) will be launched in April at the same price," HRD Minister Kapil Sibal
With the government gearing up to implement Aadhaar based e-payment system to check pilferage in social schemes, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday called for expanding such pilot projects to more states and areas. His comments came after the Task Force on Aaadhar-Enabled Unified Payment Infrastructure, headed by UIDAI-Chairman Nandan Nilekani, submitted its final repo
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked telecom operators Idea Cellular and Vodafone to provide Intelligence Bureau (IB) identification of subscribers using Internet on their mobile phones. DoT officials said instructions have been issued to Idea and Vodafone to provide the requisite information to IB at the earliest. The security agency had sought details of som
The government on Thursday launched a unique initiative under which graduate and undergraduate college and university students can perform their laboratory experiments online. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal launched www.vlab.co.in, a collection of 91 virtual laboratories containing hundreds of experiments in nine disciplines of science and engineering. Such labs would no
In what could be a major achievement for classroom teaching, Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College (GMC) will now be linked with All India Institute of Medical Sciences through a virtual teaching session. The pilot project by the national knowledge commission aims at upping the medical education standards in the country. It would link the command control at AIIMS Delhi with PGI-
Government public sector unit Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), post the successful bid of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) traffic project, would now handle close to 220 traffic signals in the state, which will involve the installation and modernization of the signals within the GHMC limits. Under the project, which is likely to cost BEL Rs 63.6 crore, all the t
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that the Aadhar-Enabled E-payment system would help in ensuring timely payments directly to the intended beneficiaries while also reduce the time taken, transaction costs and the leakages among others. Speaking after receiving the Final Report of the Task Force on Aaadhar-Enabled Unified Payment Infrastructure presented to him by
To eliminate the pilferage of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the Union government on Wednesday launched the electronic fund management system (eFMS) as part of a pilot project in Karnataka. The system is used for easy transfer of funds from the government to the direct beneficiaries is developed by National Informatics Centre
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed internet portal Yahoo India`s plea for calling of the records of the trial court which has summoned it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. A bench of Justice Suresh Kait directed the registry to produce the records of the trial court. The matter is listed for hearing in the high court on March 1. "Registry of
Telecom tribunal TDSAT on Thursday issued a notice to Etisalat DB on Reliance Infratel`s plea seeking to recover Rs 1,200 crore from the operator. A TDSAT bench headed by its Chairman Justice S B Sinha asked the company to file a short reply within two weeks and posted the matter on March 5 for next hearing. The Anil Ambani group company is seeking to recover Rs 1,
In an effort to bring more transparency, Delhi government has decided to introduce an online system for major infrastructure projects through which the Central Vigilance Commission will be able to monitor them during various stages of their execution. The online monitoring platform has been developed by CVC and the Delhi government decided to introduce it following a communicatio
