In a bid to promote e-governance in government quarters, a delegation from Maharashtra will be in the state for three days from Tuesday to experience the e-governance applications of the government. The members in the delegation include MLAs and senior bureaucrats along with six ministers, among whom some have stepped back due to the launch of the three-day fast by Gandhian Anna
National Population Register, the mamoth digital database of individual identities, has moved the government for financial clearance. The plan of the home ministry to issue identity (ID) cards to over 84 crore residents above the age of 18 years is going to cost the government Rs 6,790 crore. The data once finalised will be part of a confidential database, as reported by
A social activist has filed an FIR against social networking site Facebook and a journalist based in Jalandhar for allegedly asking people to burn the Bhagwad Gita. "The FIR has been registered at Gomti Nagar Police Station on a complaint lodged by Nutan Thakur under various sections of the IPC yesterday," Circle officer Alok Singh told PTI. In her FIR, N
After blocking major file-hosting websites through broadband services provided by Reliance Communications, the company said that it acted in accordance with the law. A Reliance Communications spokesperson told Times of India, "Under Section 79 of th
Information explosion is a reality that all organisations, including governments, have to deal with. Information is crucial to a business, for knowledge management or for regulatory compliance. In this context, Symantec commissioned the ‘2011 Information Retention and e-Discovery Survey’ to understand the critical issues in the field of information management.
It took Ravinder Tiwari just five minutes at the citizen service bureau (CSB) in Lajpat Nagar to get the death certificate of a relative. The details of deaths are updated in the database by the hospitals or select cremation grounds and a person needs to pay `10 to obtain death certificate from a CSB. However, Sameer Usmani, father of a newborn, had to go through a two-step process for
For the past 15 years, 65-year-old retired senior citizen, Vijay Kumar Korgaonkar of Jogeshwari (East) has been regularly visiting the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai’s (MCGM) K-East ward to pay his water bills and periodic renewal of shop licence. He brings along water bills of his neighbours in the society so that they don’t have to make a trip to the civic body. Computeri
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)-Business Council and software industry lobby group Nasscom launched on Thursday a report on using information and communication technology (ICT) for meeting goals of climate change and environment sustainability. "The report, `Sustainable Tomorrow: Harnessing ICT Potential` is an attempt to bring together the entire ecosystem of user
India on Thursday expressed concern over the proposed US Call Centre Bill but said that it is premature to assess the impact of the decision on the domestic IT industry. A bipartisan bill has been tabled in the US House of Representatives to make companies, that move call centres overseas, ineligible for grants or guaranteed loans from the federal government, a move aimed at stem
To curb the prevailing situation of the subsidized fertilizer in the state, the Karnataka government is likely to launch mobile fertilizer monitoring system in January 2012 to the trace the movement from manufacturer to the retailer. For the same purpose, Mangalore chemicals and fertilisers (MCF) limited has been appointed as the nodal agency for Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.
To curb the prevailing situation of the subsidized fertilizer in the state, the Karnataka government is likely to launch mobile fertilizer monitoring system in January 2012 to the trace the movement from manufacturer to the retailer. For the same purpose, Mangalore chemicals and fertilisers (MCF) limited has been appointed as the nodal agency for Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.
Ministry of Interior has constituted a committee to examine draft bill regarding misuse of emails, SMS, MMS in anti-state activities. As per notification issued here on Thursday, the committee headed by Secretary Interior, would meet next week and later brief the Minister regarding the proposed legislation.Other members of the Committee are Secretary of Information Technology, Chairman Pakistan
The government on Wednesday informed Parliament that the information provided by individuals for issuance of UIDAI numbers will be kept confidential. "Adequate safeguards have been provided to ensure individual`s privacy and confidentiality of information," Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. The mandate
Government is planning to digitise non-sensitive files to efficiently deal with RTI applications and improve efficiency in governance, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. "Yes," was the written reply from Minister of State for Personnel and Public Grievances V Narayanasamy to the lower house when asked whether the Government proposes to computerise all non-sensitiv
Armed with a Delhi court order restraining social-networking sites from webcasting any "anti-religious" content that promotes communal disharmony, representatives from Muslim, Christian and other religious communities today met Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal seeking stringent action against such internet platforms. According to a Telecom Ministry official, a group of over
Unable to intercept data on platforms like BlackBerry, Gmail, Nokia Pushmail and Skype, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble recently to discuss intercept mechanism of such communications which would help in combating telecom crimes. This was one of the agenda items at a recent meeting between Sibal and Noble who discussed the potential partn
In yet another attack on the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a team comprising of legal and technical experts on Thursday stood adept to the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on the National Identification Authority Bill, 2010 and said that not much heed has been paid to the report. According to the experts, the report is a severe indict
Karnataka government plans to create a State resident data hub and also make filing of RTI and public grievances by people just a phone call away, a senior official said today. "(The proposed) Karnataka Resident Data Hub will link all databases of Government," Principal Secretary, e-Governance Department, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science and Technology
Department of archives of national capital territory of Delhi on Tuesday signed an agreement with national institute of smart government (NISG), to digitize almost 10 core documents collecting dust in the Capital archives. Most of these archival documents will be made available to the citizens through department’s web portal. “Gazettes, reports, pla
Harried residents frustrated by mounting piles of uncleared garbage can now turn to a young couple`s start up portal to get trash cleared from their homes... free of cost. The couple -- Jegan and Sujatha Jegan, both aged less than 30, started city-based online portal www.kuppathotti.com (trash can) offering services at customers` doorsteps, including collecting old house-hold jun
