Soon passengers will be able to book tickets under Tatkal scheme for Duronto trains as Railways Ministry has decided to extend the facility in the premier rail service from April next year. Besides, the ministry has also decided to accept `Aadhaar` cards as identity proof for Tatkal scheme which allows online booking of tickets 24 hours before the day of journey. &
Domestic companies are unprepared to deal with information technology related frauds despite substantial awareness of the same, Ernst & Young India said in its survey. Nearly 85 per cent of the respondents surveyed said their firm have more than 50 per cent of their data in electronic format, while more than one-fourth revealed that their company experienced technology relate
Microsoft Hyderabad on Tuesday announced the successful completion of TOFFEE (Total Offense Free Entity), a traffic awareness initiative organised by the company`s employees in association with the Cyberabad Police. TOFFEE, is a certificate issued by the Cyberabad Police in the form of a sticker, which exempts its holder from being stopped for routine document checks by the traff
In order to improve governance, the Haryana State Innovation Council has decided to frame State Innovation Policy, focusing on four major areas of health, education, water and environment. A decision in this regard was taken in the first meeting of State Innovation Council (SIC) chaired by chief secretary Urvashi Gulati on Monday, an official release said. The Hary
The government is considering issuing new corporate governance guidelines by including good practices like tax compliance, to companies for voluntary adoption, Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Monday. He said during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha that the Voluntary Guidelines for good corporate governance were old as they were issued in 2009 and did not include t
Assam police`s intelligence wing was being modernised and CID personnel would be given advanced training to tackle tech-savvy criminals, Director General of Police Sankar Barua has said. Intelligence wing was being streamlined with a sophisticated laboratory to keep track of cell phone usage for dubious motive, cyber cafes and Internet crimes while CID personnel would be given ad
The government will provide funds to technical institutes with a view to promote awareness and talent in electronic products design and manufacturing. "We have plans to organise 232 workshops on Electronic System Design and Manufacturing over period of two years. DIT will give support of Rs 30,000 for each workshop to UGC- approved institutes for workshops," a Departmen
Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (Irda) Friday said it would take steps to introduce an electronic re-insurance platform for insurers and both Indian and foreign re-insurers. "The proposed electronic re-insurance platform will have to be mandatorily used by insurers and Indian reinsurers as well as foreign reinsurers operating in India," Irda Chairman J Harina
Social networking sites such as Facebook have emerged as the new "honey trap" set by enemy spies prompting government to ask senior officials of paramilitary and armed forces to stop flaunting their career information or at best stay away from such web sites. Cases of such cyber espionage have come to light where officials of paramilitary forces posted in sensitive area
The government will soon issue show-cause notices to five leading telecom firms, including Bharti, Idea, RCom and Tatas, with regard to special audit that found discrepancies in payment of licence fees. According to sources in the know, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to issue notices before raising any demand so that the companies could giv
CBI would be setting up an international high-tech centre in partnership with the Interpol for unravelling telcommunication crimes keeping in mind growing popularity of mobile phones and devices as carriers of senstitive information, vulnerable to hackers. The proposal of CBI Interpol Research and Innovation Centre for Prevention of Telecommunication crime came during the discuss
State-owned telecom services provider BSNL on Friday launched `Choose Your Mobile Number Scheme` across the country. The scheme would provide a new customer with vast range of over one lakh numbers to choose from, BSNL Chairman and Managing Director R K Upadhyay said. The scheme provides access through broadband and also through SMS. Customers can log on to the BSN
The Telecom Ministry is likely to auction one slot of broadband wireless access (BWA) licence spectrum on pan-India basis after getting back airwaves from the state-run PSU BSNL. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has given in-principle approval to the proposal of BSNL to surrender its BWA licence in nine circles, out of the total 22 service areas for which the telecom operator had
CBI, in its third charge sheet in 2G spectrum case, has said Loop Telecom Ltd was a Essar Group company "under a corporate veil" and even Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) and Department of Telecommunications (DoT) "chose not to investigate" and allowed it "to rest". The "vague" MCA report on the DoT`s plea to examine the allegations agai
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Saturday urged a Delhi court to make P Chidambaram an accused in the 2G case for his alleged role in allowing two telecom firms to earn windfall profits by offloading their shares to foreign firms. Deposing as a witness in support of his private complaint, he told Special CBI Judge O P Saini that the then Finance Minister was also culpable
Ailing state-run telecom companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) are yet to recover Rs 6,444 crore as dues from subscribers for non-payment of bills. For BSNL, which operates all over the country, barring Delhi and Mumbai, the amount is Rs 5,341 crore, while MTNL which offers services in Delhi and Mumbai, has to recover Rs 1,103 crore fr
State-owned telecom services provider BSNL, which is awaiting telecom ministry`s nod for its voluntary retirement scheme, is seeking government assistance of Rs 12,000 crore for implementing it. BSNL CMD R K Upadhyay said the company has proposed to the Government to fund compensation package of the VRS scheme. "The total cost of VRS (if one lakh employees opt
Successful implementation of e-governance in VAT administration would help prevent tax evasion besides checking corruption and Bihar government was trying its use in tax administration to make it more developed and viable, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi said on Friday. Modi was speaking at the inauguration of a workshop on `e-governance in VAT administration` jointly organi
With a view to bring transparency in the functioning of government offices, the district administration has decided to install close circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in the offices involved in delivery of public services. These cameras will not only keep help in keeping watch on the work being done in the offices, but also allow the Deputy Commissioner and the Sub-Divisional Ma
The government on Thursday held a dialogue with social networking firms seeking their views on effective use of these platforms and is also working on guidelines for its own officials on how to make good use of the social media to reach out to wider population. The discussion came a few days after IT and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal asked Internet firms to ensure that no defamato
