Banks should make financial inclusion more meaningful, says Subbarao
The Reserve Bank Thursday asked banks to make financial inclusion more meaningful and ensure qualitative coverage through proper functioning of […]
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Kaziranga resorts to technology to protect tigers
The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has taken to highly modernised method of saving tigers. There are about 81 to […]
IT rules regulating web content could be repealed in Rajya Sabha
The Left parties have decided to back the annulment motion against the IT Rules promulgated in April 2011 that provide […]
Security breach: Pen drive, laptop missing at South Block
Thieves have struck at the Central Secretariat, this time at the South Block. According to sources, laptop and a […]
Railway Budget: focus on safety, ICT spend likely to go up
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has unveiled the Rail Budget 2012-13 in the parliament today. He started his speech by thanking […]
France enacts Internet piracy law
Taking stringent action against the online copyright infringement, France parliament has passed Internet anti-piracy bill, providing relief to global music industry. The bill was passed in the lower house (National Assembly) by a vote of 296 to 233 on Tuesday and by 189 votes to 14 in the upper house (the Senate) a day later.
China Mounts Cyber Attacks on Indian Sites
India is silently suffering from cyber warfare. China has mounted daily attacks on Indian computer networks both government and private. These attacks are not like hacking or phishing; they are more sophisticated and there is a complete method behind cyber war fare.
McAfee Receives Top Award for Technology Innovation in Mobile Security
McAfee announced that it has received the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Award for strategic technology innovation in mobile security. Frost […]
ITU and Microsoft signs MoU in Connect Africa Summit to track ICT development
ITU Global View, a virtual earth-based online platform to track and help accelerate the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) goals in Africa was launched on 29 October, 2007 on the opening day of the Connect Africa Summit. Governments, along with industry, development banks and international organizations are gathered in Kigali (Rwanda) to mobilize the human, financial and technical resources required to expand the development of ICT infrastructure and ensure it is used effectively in pursuit of the WSIS development goals for Africa.
Global solutions needed to eradicate human trafficking: Heyzer
Human trafficking has become a multi-billion dollar industry and a major human rights concern, which requires the collective effort of the global community to be successfully eradicated, according to a senior official of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
