IMD is preparing a concept paper on narrowing its grid resolution from 22 sq km to 10 sq km.
The income-tax department has created various functionalities under its Project Insight, which will provide the 360-degree profile of taxpayers, including new and non-filers to gauge their accountability and tax liability. The tax department had on March 15 put out instructions for tax officials for accessing the insight.
The information technology sector in West Bengal is likely to see addition of 20,000 jobs in 2008. The state currently has about 300 small to big sized companies and employs 55,000.
The 15 ministers were sworn in on Sunday for the expanded Gehlot cabinet, fulfilling a key demand of former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot whose rebellion last year shook the state's Congress government.
When the subscriber reaches superannuation or the age of 60, 60 per cent of the total corpus accumulated in NPS can be withdrawn as a lump sum.
The connectivity will not only improve delivery of government schemes but will also empower people, he said while talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi.
The department of information technology, Government of India will submit its proposal by next month to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, a non-profit organisation responsible for managing the internet's domain name system, including IP address space assignments based in California, USA.
According to officials in the state IT department, as part of the 2009 incentive scheme, the sop is currently available for all IT companies looking to set up or expand base in Kolkata.
The government has the power to monitor, intercept and even block online conversations and websites.
These firms are already affected by falling margins, delays in getting orders and the ongoing financial crisis in their second-biggest market, Europe.
'The message is not clear whether we are wanted.' 'All this could adversely impact our strategy in India and also investments.'
Three TMC leaders Amit Mitra, Bratya Basu and Rathin Ghosh were sworn-in virtually. Mitra is unwell and both Basu and Ghosh are recuperating from COVID-19.
The former Satyam Computer's founder, Ramalinga Raju, had confessed in early 2009 to having falsified the company's accounts for years.
The share of non-resident Indians (NRIs) and overseas investors in Indian mutual funds has been declining over time, despite adding half-a-trillion rupees to holdings over the last five years. Mutual fund holdings for the segment went up from Rs 0.95 trillion as of December 2018 to Rs 1.54 trillion as of December 2022, shows Business Standard analysis of data from the industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). Their share in overall mutual fund assets has fallen from 4.2 per cent to 3.9 per cent during the same period.
'He told senior journalists a few days after the Babri Masjid demolition, 'Jo hua theek hua. Maine isliye hone diya ki BJP ki rajniti hamesha ke liye khatam ho jaye.'
A rogue worm has hit the site, which directs the victim to an IP address, asking to download a fake antivirus.
Fifteen Cabinet ministers and 28 Ministers of State were sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
Computer emergency response teams will be strengthened with ethical hackers who will respond to cyberattacks.
Concordia University confers honorary doctorate on Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy.
India will have 100 million Internet users and 20 million broadband connections by 2008-2010, Brajesh kumar, secretary, department of information technology, said on Monday.
The government on Monday published a draft data policy for public consultation, which says all data collected, generated, and stored by every government ministry and department will be open and shareable barring certain exceptions. Also, detailed datasets that have undergone value addition could be monetised by the government. The policy document, called "Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022", prescribes that a regulatory authority called the Indian Data Council (IDC) and an agency by the name India Data Office (IDO) will oversee framing metadata standards and enforcement, respectively.
A large number of information technology companies in India are becoming stricter with departing employees and are asking them to serve the full notice period to ensure that business activities are not affected by a sudden shortage of manpower.
Objectionable social media posts against ministers, members of Parliament and the state legislature, other elected representatives and government officials shall be counted as cyber crime and warrant penal action, says a missive issued by a top police official in Bihar.
'The idea is to have a separate and independent consultation on non-personal data, and decide the contours of how it should be regulated, whether as guidelines, rules, or a separate policy,' said a senior official at MeitY.
The government has proposed to give a Rs 1 lakh crore (Rs 1 trillion) investment subsidy to the country's electronics industry over a period of next 10 years, to give a boost to the sector, a key official said on Wednesday.
British students are using Indian expertise in information technology to complete their course assignments by posting them on outsourcing websites and buying the completed coursework.Called 'contract cheating' in academic circles, lecturers in computing department in universities are in a tizzy since such coursework is of high quality and difficult to detect through normal plagiarism detection software.The students pay amounts ranging from 5 to 50 pounds for the complete work
The DIT will have the software ready by end of September which will help decode 22 languages recognised by the Constitution.
An order, issued last year, makes it mandatory for certain electronic products being sold in the Indian market to comply with BIS specifications
The United Kingdom on Friday announced a joint investment package with Tata Steel worth 1.25 billion pounds, including a government grant of 500 million pounds, for the country's largest steelworks in Wales that will help protect thousands of jobs and boost the British economy. The government's grant has been dubbed as one of the largest British government support packages in history and a "defining moment" for the country's steel industry.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday conveyed to US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin India's concerns over Washington's decision to provide sustenance package for Pakistan's F-16 fighter jet fleet.
The govt withdrew the draft encryption policy which made it mandatory for storage of all messages, including social media, for 90 days.
The Standing Committee on Information Technology has decided to have briefing on allocating spectrum for the existing services and introduction of 3G services from department of telecommunication, an official communication said. Mobile operators have been demanding additional spectrum from the Government for 2G services, where they have more subscribers.
The government has warned the users of social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter of a virus that is spreading through these sites targeting the members.
The attackers are not confined to information infrastructures and geographical boundaries. They exploit network interconnections and navigate easily through the infrastructure. More worryingly, these cyber criminals are becoming more skilled at masking their behaviour.
Tharoor put the blame for the logjam in Parliament on BJP and accused the saffron party of reducing the "temple of democracy to a rubber stamp for its agenda or worse, a notice board to announce its unilateral decisions".
IT majors like IBM, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat have shot letters to industry bodies -- Nasscom (for software) and MAIT (for hardware) -- and the department of information technology, protesting over the inclusion of clauses which allow for 'multiple standards' and 'royalty on software' versus a 'single' standard and 'free' software.
The budget proposes to enhance the allocation to the Department of Information Technology from Rs 1952 crore in 2008-09 to Rs 2802 crore in 2009-10. The budget proposes allocation of Rs 600 crore towards establishing National Knowledge Network, Rs 900 crore towards e-Governance programme, Rs 550 crore towards National Informatics Centre and Rs 125 crore for Centre for Development of Advanced Computing for undertaking R&D.
The dreaded mass-mailing worm expected to strike computers across the world today has kept the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, set up by the Department of Information Technology, on its toes.
The statement added that Goel was removed from the post of DGP for not taking interest in departmental work.
