NIIT Healthcare Technologies has implemented MASH at Antelope Valley Hospital in California. The program is named MASH because it enables healthcare providers to Manage, Analyse, Sustain and Harness patient information. Patients of the Antelope Valley Hospital emergency room, the second busiest ER in the state, are using a customised iPad to check in, verify and [...]
Over the next four years Cisco Systems will increase its workforce in India by about 60 percent. This will be the first large-scale recruitment by Cisco in India after it announced a 15 percent cut in global workforce in mid 2011. Much of the hiring will be for the company’s research and development centre [...]
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Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office Pulok Chatterjee, Secretary (Presonnel) P K Mishra, Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar and Advisor to Prime Minister Sam Pitroda, are in the high level search-cum-selection committee that will soon take a decision on who will be the next chief of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of [...]
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Email service providers such as Yahoo, Gmail, Microsoft and others could soon be asked to route all emails accessed in India, through servers based here, even if the mail account was registered or made in a foreign land. The move comes in the wake of instances where security agencies could not have a real-time access [...]
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RIM, the maker of BlackBerry, has finally set up its server in Mumbai. The home ministry has been insisting that RIM should set up its server in India to enable the security agencies to make lawful interception of its messenger services. In the recent meeting held at the Union Home Ministry, officials of the [...]
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With the intention of furthering the long-term growth of e-Governance in Madhya Pradesh, the process of computerising about 23,000 village panchayats has begun. The objective is to bring public utility services through three-tier panchayats under National e-Governance Programme. The e-panchayat scheme will bring government machinery closer to citizens. There will be more efficient interaction [...]
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With its recruitment rules failing to woo back executives who have left for the department of telecom (DoT), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is being forced to tap the private sector to rebuild its senior management team. Last year, in November, a large number of the Indian Telecom Service (ITS) officers deputed to BSNL [...]
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The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet has decided to set up 400 public service centres under the Public Services Guarantee Act. The State Cabinet’s meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Of the 400 centres, 313 will be set up at the block level and 87 in urban centres. The centres will accept applications from [...]
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Sushobhan Sarkar has been elevated as Managing Director in the Life Insurance Corporation of India. The order to this effect was issued on February 17. Earlier Sarkar had headed LIC Mutual Fund. Prior to taking over charge as CEO of LIC Mutual Fund, he was executive director in charge of investment department at LIC. [...]
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Cyber criminals have targeted as many as 27 websites belonging to Andhra Pradesh government. Ironically, this hacking happened on the same day when the government in the state was planning to present a “paperless budget.” The hackers did not deface the homepage of the sites but added an extra link on it with the URL [...]
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