With the launch of a pilot automation and networking project, Jammu and Kashmir is set to switch over to online public libraries. "The launch of the automation and networking project of the public libraries is a significant initiative to switch over from manual to online libraries," Director Libraries and Research Khalid Bashir Ahmed said. He said in the
British Foreign Secretary William Hague issued a warning on Tuesday to countries that try to restrict Internet freedom as he opened a global conference designed to set up cyberspace "rules of the road". Government officials, technology firms, NGOs, bloggers and security experts from more than 60 countries are at the two-day talks in London, although the main speaker, US
India has called for global coordination to ensure that Internet continues to thrive without the fear of its misuse. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Information and Communications, told the London International Cyber Conference that "given the nature of the task and the fact that IT networks can be attacked from anywhere in the world and that digital footprints are easy
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday expressed the hope that introduction of e-payment system by the government will help in increasing transparency and in reducing corruption. "A transparent payment trail would ensure the entire payment processes trackable ... this would be major initiative for good governance and would be an important tool in reducing corruption,&qu
Telecom consumers will now be able to send up to 200 SMSes per day from a SIM, as against the earlier limit of just 100 SMSes per day imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). "The authority has received representations from some of the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMSes per day per SIM. The authority has considered these re
Andhra Pradesh Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced launch of `Choose Your Mobile Number` scheme and introduction of CDMA mobile service from Tuesday. Under `Choose Your Mobile Number` scheme, the prospective customer will be able to pick any number from a list of about one lakh numbers, displayed on the website www.ap.bsnl.co.in, without any premium, AP Ci
The perpetrators of Monday`s hacking attack on the official website of West Bengal CID has been traced to Lahore and they had routed it through a US proxy server, a senior agency official said. "The hacking was done by little-known organisation Muslim Liberation Army yesterday from Lahore and the proxy server was traced to America," DIG, CID, (SOG), K Jayaraman told rep
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday launched the website of the fourth state finance commission here. The state`s finance commission is the country`s first commission to have website on which people can post their suggestions. Profile, organisational structure, functioning of the commission and reports of previous finance commissions have been made avai
A Wikipedia-style website launched which provides information about the journalists behind the bylines. News Transparency is a creation of Ira Stoll, the founder of another website called FutureOfCapitalism.com and the former managing editor of the now defunct New York Sun. In a statement on its home page, newstransparency.com, the website said yesterday its goal i
The Income Tax Department will introduce a separate permanent account number(PAN) application form for non-residents in which NRIs, PIOs and entities having interest in India will have to provide additional information to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The new form--49AA-- will help the department gather information on non-Indian entities and individuals, like Persons
Former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami on Monday said the Aadhar card issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India should include the names of a woman`s father and husband, in order to avoid confusion stemming from different surnames. "Married women generally use their husband`s name as their surname. But in PAN cards they ask for their father`s name. So,
The UIDAI, which issues national identity cards to citizens, on Tuesday said it generated two crore Aadhaar numbers in the month of October. "In another major milestone, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) has generated two crore Aadhaar numbers in the month of October, 2011, alone," an official statement said. The UID
Mobile phones are fast moving beyond their primary role of voice communication and becoming multi-tasking devices as the number of wireless subscribers in the country totals 89.2 crore, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) said. With prices of mobile handsets coming down and disposable incomes going up, people are changing handsets quite often.
Youth in the country represent the powerhouse of the global economy but the quality of education continues to remain a matter of "concern", HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "Western nations and east Asia reaped the benefits of the demographic dividend, now the fruits of this dividend are seeded in India, the Middle East and Africa. The youth here represent the po
Technology giant HP has scrapped the plans to spin off its personal computer unit, about a month after the ouster of its former CEO Leo Apotheker who had mooted this proposal in August last as part of the strategic overhaul. "HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off Personal Systems Group (PSG). It is clear after our analysis t
Hackers have hit the website of Nigeria`s top anti-corruption agency over a government official suggesting tighter Internet control in Africa`s most populous nation. A group of hackers calling themselves NaijaCyberHacktivists claimed the attack on Friday on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission`s site, which saw its usual home page replaced with a warning from the group.
Hackers target hundreds of thousands of `Facebook` accounts nearly 600,000 times daily, the popular social networking website has revealed. `Facebook` is the largest social networking site in the world with more than 800 million members who spend more than a total of 700 billion minutes on the site per month. Out of more than a billion logins to the website every 2
Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Milind Deora on Saturday reviewed the strategy for revival of state-run telecom equipment maker ITI with its senior executives. "We have to revive and we want to revive ITI," he told senior executives of ITI at a presentation held on the company`s revival strategy, a company release said. The
India`s hotlines with other countries may take some time to be set up as the Government now plans to rope in Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for encryption of the communication system. A high-level meeting was chaired by National Security Advisor Shiv Shanker Menon to consider various options for setting up hotlines with other countries, official sources said
Loss-making BSNL may get financial compensation for maintaining unremunerative services, like its offerings in rural areas as part of the Universal Service Obligation, or would be allowed to take a commercial decision to continue or exit from such services. "...if BSNL is being asked (by DoT) to maintain an uneconomic service and not to exit from it even if its commercial de
