In a bid to minimise threats, prevent crime and safeguard public areas, the Gujarat government has decided to install CCTV-based City Surveillance and Intelligent Traffic Management System (CSITMS) in major cities of the state. Initially, the system would be installed in cities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Gandhinagar and Somnath. In all, 167 traffic junctions an
A technical glitch in the telephone as well as computer network in Delhi Secretariat on friday affected work in various departments, including the Chief Minister`s Office. No landline was working through the day and some computers were also affected because of the fault. Officials said the telephone network was not functioning till evening. "We
Google News, a computer-generated free news site provided by Google Inc that aggregates stories worldwide, is expanding its customization options for non-English-language readers this year, the creator of the news service said recently. In an interview with Kyodo News, Krishna Bharat, who is Google`s distinguished research scientist, said he expects the site`s news personalizatio
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said his Government was committed to provide adequate funds for the modernisation of lower courts. "The Government is bound to provide adequate funds for the modernisation of courts, from district to taluka level. We have taken firm steps in this regard," he said. Chavan was speaking as a chief guest at t
Doctors in Britain are asking their patients to email their symptoms rather than making an appointment under a new scheme which aims to save the UK`s National Health Service up to one billion pounds a year. The results would be picked up by doctors at the end of the day or during free time between appointments; people suffering from conditions like heart failure, diabetes or lung
Activists and researchers today raised doubts over security of the data being collected for the Unique Identification (UID) project and its public utility. "The personal information being collected for the UID would be stored in a central database system without assuring protection against data theft. There could be a possibility of profiling, tracking and surveillance with
The Indian Air Force is planning to introduce a health information card in the form of a memory chip for all its personnel to ensure easy access to treatment during any emergency at any of its hospitals. Once this card is available with them, they will not have to carry voluminous documents containing their medical history, Director General Medical Services, (Air Force) Air Marsh
The rural India is expected to fuel the growth in mobile phone services in the next four years, as cell phones become a vital tool for the government in its financial inclusion programme, according to Global consultancy group Deloitte. Deloitte said that low penetration levels of mobile phones would provide more business opportunities for service providers. The pap
Driven by smart December quarter earnings, IT major Tata Consultancy Services has become the country`s second largest firm in terms of market valuation, lagging behind corporate leader Reliance Industries. TCS, which was the top gainer among the country`s 10 most valuable companies in the last week, saw its valuation surging by Rs 18,378.11 crore to Rs 2,37,330 crore in the week.
Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has launched a landmark telemedicine service in the country in an effort to boost health care in the rural areas with the financial and technical assistance from India. The SAARC telemedicine centre has been established with an assistance of Rs 3.05 Crores from the Government of India under the SAARC telemedicine network project, according
Infosys Technologies Ltd CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan has said the Information Technology sector in India is in another growth phase. "In 2008, the industry saw growth coming down to single digits. Most IT companies stopped hiring employees and stopped expanding. Fortunately, growth is back and most companies are hiring in large numbers again. The top five companie
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today inaugurated the newly-expanded facility and a world-class Flight Operation Centre of US-based technology company Honeywell International here. "The first phase of the facility has been constructed at a cost of Rs 100 crore and employs 600 people. After if is fully commissioned by the year-end it will have more than 1,00
A teenager hailing from Jharkhand was today arrested for allegedly posing as a Pakistani national and sending a death threat through an email to industrialist Anil Ambani. 17-year-old Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, a student from Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, was arrested from his home town and was being brought to Mumbai, Additional Police Commissioner (Crime) Deven Bharti said here.
Expressing an urgent need to check rising frauds, the RBI wants Indian Banks` Association (IBA) to set up a training institute in collaboration with lenders to impart forensic investigation skills to bank staff. "To enhance investigation skills of the staff in the fraud risk management group, a training institute for financial forensic investigation may be set up by banks un
In a bid to upgrade Jammu and Kashmir libraries, University of Kashmir will soon start digitising eight million pages of various books. "In the first phase, eight million pages from books in various libraries of Jammu and Kashmir will be digitised," an official of the University said. He said old and rare books which are in private possession will also be
A boy allegedly made an obscene MMS of his cousin and circulated it among his three friends following police have arrested the accused. Agyeya made the MMS of his aunt`s daughter and later circulated to his three friends, who later started blackmailing the girl`s family. The girl`s father, a resident of Kalyanpur village, registered a complaint saying that a youth
Google Inc, fresh off announcing a management shake-up, will give a USD 100 million equity award to outgoing Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who in April will be succeeded by company co-founder Larry Page, says a media report. "Google ... will give a USD 100 million equity award to outgoing Chief Executive Eric Schmidt," the Wall Street Journal reported. It
Google may have taken back seat in China after its protracted row with Chinese censors last year, but the American company`s former country chief Kai-fu Lee today emerged as leader of the country`s burgeoning micrco bloggers with over 10 million visitors. Lee is the second micro-blogger, after sporting icon Liu Xiang, to win so many visitors, state run Xinhua news agency reported
Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who was found guilty of breaching bank secrecy laws over his transfer of client data to the online website Wikileaks, has been remanded in custody, press reports said today. The former chief operating officer at private bank Julius Baer`s subsidiary in the Cayman Islands was detained yesterday because he risks destroying evidence, his lawyer Gand
Popular social networking site Facebook is being blamed for a growing number of marriage splits in the UK as love rats are caught flirting online. According family lawyers in Britain, flirtations on the website are now becoming a major factor in breakdowns and the problem has become so great that almost every divorce they have dealt with in the past year has involved the website.
