Reuters Market Light now available in local post offices
Reuters Ltd has partnered with the Maharashtra Postal Department to distribute sell and support Reuters Market Light (‘RML’) service across the state.
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Call for broadband community centres in Malaysia
Alcatel-Lucent is bringing broadband based community centres in order to deliver high-speed Internet services to rural folk in Malaysia.
NDC endorses XI Plan draft
The National Development Council (NDC) has praised the Eleventh Plan Year plan. In the first year, the Eleventh Plan envisages an average nine per cent GDP (gross domestic product) growth and a growth of 10 per cent during the terminal year 2011-12.
ADB provides US$ 21 million to develop ICT in South Asia
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is granting &21.2 million for the development of ICT in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal by improving the availability of affordable broadband Internet connections.
Department of Telecom (GoI) may not increase spectrum fee
The Department of Telecom may not increase the spectrum fee beyond the prescribed INR 1,651 crore for an all-India licence as it feels mobile tariffs could go up if operators have to pay higher charges. The Government had kept the fee for an all-India license at INR 1,651 crore, which comes bundled with start-up spectrum, so that operators could roll out services faster and at affordable prices. This objective has not been accomplished as most of the rural areas are yet to get connected.
Bio-metric passports for India soon
India’s Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, E Ahamed,recently said at the lower house of the India Parliament- Rajya Sabha,that e-Passports would initially be introduced for diplomats and officials as a pilot project by the middle of 2008. Based on the experience of the pilot project, the government would then issue e-Passports in the ordinary category, which could take another year.
Government of India Seeks to Enable e-Governance through SOA
The Government of India is looking at Service Oriented Architechture (SOA) to bring greater efficiencies to administrative processes and to enable e-Governance. The National Informatics Center (NIC) has been entrusted to introduce e-Governance standards, which will be based on SOA.
