The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has asked NHAI and states to strictly adopt e-tendering system for better transparency in highways projects, saying it is not being properly implemented. "E-tendering system which has been proposed by the ministry for better transparency of works on the national highways is not being followed for some of the projects in some states
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has asked NHAI and states to strictly adopt e-tendering system for better transparency in highways projects, saying it is not being properly implemented. "E-tendering system which has been proposed by the ministry for better transparency of works on the national highways is not being followed for some of the projects in some states
British telecom firm Vodafone`s Indian arm on Monday contested the proposal of one-time charge for extra spectrum held by service providers beyond the contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz, saying this is in violation of the contract. "...Any suggestion or action on part of DoT or TRAI to charge one-time fee on spectrum (2G) beyond 6.2 Mhz is legally untenable as the consideration has
Supply of laptops to India is likely to be delayed as production of its critical components from Thailand, a major manufacturing hub, has got disrupted due to floods there. IT hardware industry body MAIT said disruption in laptop supplies could hit even the big government projects for which orders have already been placed. "The recent flood in Thailand has aff
GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in October, taking the total GSM subscriber base to 625.41 million. This is 1.15 per cent increase from September, when GSM operators added 6.52 million new users. In October, the growth was led by Uninor which added 2.66 million new users, taking its total user-base to 32.31 million at the end of October, 2011, the data released b
Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam on Monday entered into an agreement with the Moscow-based IT security and anti-virus solution firm Kaspersky Lab to offer managed security services to telcos. "Mahindra Satyam is already in talks with telecom service providers to provide such solutions. As soon as they launch their managed services, we will launch our services through them.
Pakistani mobile phone operators today deferred the implementation of an order to block nearly 1,700 offensive and obscene words from SMS messages, saying they were holding discussions with the telecom regulator on the issue. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority recently issued two lists of offensive English and Urdu words and terms -containing 1,106 and 586 items respectivel
An Indian Institute of Information Technology would be set up at Mirza town near Guwahati on the lines of IIT, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Monday. The project has been conceived in public-private mode with the Centre and Assam government and leading industry partners as stake holders, Gogoi told reporters in the state capital. "This is in response to the Union HRD Min
The Goa Government has decided to give priority to local Information Technology entrepreneurs (IT) in the two model industrial estates planned in North and South districts. The estates are planned at Quittol in remote Quepem taluka and Pissurlem, a village in the iron ore mining belt. Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Chairman Manguirish Pai Raikar, who is also a Direct
IIT Mumbai alumni and Microsoft veteran Bharat Shyam has been appointed the new chief information officer (CIO) of Washington state. Shyam`s appointment was announced by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire on previous Thursday. "I am incredibly impressed with Bharat," Gregoire said in a statement. "With nearly 20 years of experience at Microsoft, he brings a deep un
A criminal case on Sunday was registered against an unidentified person for posting pictures related to various religions in an objectionable and distorted manner on the social networking site Facebook, Indore police said. "We have received complaints that the distorted pictures belonging to various religions are being posted on the Facebook through a profile with a link,&qu
Fresh communal violence on Monday broke out in Rajasthan`s Dungarpur town, about 130 km from Udaipur, as members of a community pelted stones at shops and vehicles protesting objectionable comments against a religion on social-networking site Facebook. The violence in Dungarpur town was a sequel to last night`s tension in Udaipur over the comment on Facebook. Protesting the comme
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said his government has no intention to ban popular social networking site Facebook in the Valley in the wake of protests over alleged blasphemous comments on the site. "Stop the rumour-mongering. Government has no intention of banning Facebook. Only a request to block certain blasphemous pages has been made," Omar wrot
Incidences of stone-pelting were witnessed in Aurangabad and Jalna districts during a bandh called by members of a minority community to protest objectionable religious pictures being posted on social networking site Facebook, police said. However, there were no reports of anyone getting hurt, they said. Demanding the arrest of the person who posted the pictures, protesters alleg
Anna Hazare returned to blogging on Tuesday, a fortnight after he fell out with his former blogger, whom he accused of airing his views without his authorisation. In his new blog, Hazare introduced a fresh agenda -- development of 100 model villages to curb corruption -- apart from the Jan Lokpal bill, electoral reforms and decentralisation of power. For developin
Goa`s policy for Information Technology (IT) industrial units, which has been hanging fire since long, would be in place by next month, a senior official of the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) said in the state capital. The GCCI announced on Monday that Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has assured them to approve the draft IT policy in the state cabinet by December 10. G
The government on Monday launched a national online examination system which can be adopted by colleges and universities to make tests hassle-free and more transparent. "The conventional paper-oriented manual examination system is time-consuming, inefficient and unfriendly to the environment," a statement by the C-DAD quoted HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, who launched launch
China`s registered microbloggers crossed 300 million, much to the disquiet of the government which is mulling measures to regulate the microblog network. China has seen a boom in its microblog sphere over the last two years. Statistics released on Monday at the 11th China Internet Media Forum in the central province of Hubei show that the number of microbloggers crossed 300 milli
Imagine reading emails and text messages on your contact lenses which are linked to internet. It may sound a bit utopian, but scientists claim that your imagination could soon turn into a reality. In fact, the futuristic technology has taken a step nearer, thanks to an international team which claims to have developed a prototype lens that could potentially provide the wearer wit
Facebook has reportedly admitted tracking which sites its users visit even after they log off, thanks to plug-ins and cookies. Facebook, which has more than 800 million active users, also keeps close track of where millions of non-members of the social networking site go on the web, even after they visit a webpage for any reason only once, the `USA Today` reported.
