He said social media companies are free to do business in India but they have to be accountable to the Indian Constitution and laws.
Companies, industry associations, law firms and individuals have pointed out the lack of clarity on how the changes are worded and said it would violate user privacy.
They described the functioning of the interlocking system which prima facie seemed to have been part of the problem which led to the accident, in which at least 275 people were killed.
Train running information system will be installed at rail premises to facilitate dissemination of information about trains on real time basis.
Has Vijay Shekhar Sharma given up on the bank? For now, he seems to be on a save-OCL mission. The bank will face its logical end, observes Tamal Bandopadhyay.
Smaller cities like Pune and Noida score better than 'Vibrant' Gujarat's Ahmedabad.
Better marketing, more recyclers needed, say hardware makers.
Anjali Ryot was killed along with another German tourist on Wednesday night in the crossfire, californianewstimes.com news portal reported.
A former official of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China has been executed for taking bribes and embezzling US$ 1.97 million.
Satyam Computer Services Limited on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited for setting up its development centre in Kolkata.
Indian start-ups breathed a sigh of relief after the UK government facilitated the acquisition of the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB's) British arm by HSBC. In a bid to allay fears, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FIDC) announced recently that it had transferred all deposits of start-up-focused SVB to a newly created bridge bank and all depositors would have access to their money. President Joe Biden also sought to reassure jittery depositors that they can have confidence that the US banking system is "safe".
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, invites applications for admission to its M Tech programme in Distributed and Mobile Computing.
The Plano, Texas-based company (including MphasiS) employs more than 27,000, whereas HP India has an employee base exceeding 29,000. The acquisition was approved by the boards of the two companies. The acquisition would be a wake-up call for Indian IT services, according to analysts. In terms of market share, EDS is next to IBM with a share of 3 per cent and HP occupies the fifth position with 2.3 per cent.
The affidavit further said that the IT Rules impose a host of obligations on a company in relation to the security of the data collected by it in the course of its business.
The proposed policy is increasingly becoming an item of negotiation, as the US pushes hard to change India's stance.
A number of projects aimed at attracting IT investment nearing completion in cities like Madurai, Coimbatore and Trichy.
'As the demand for transferable skills that can be remotely applied increases, the need for tech-based courses is on the rise/'
The administrators or creators of a WhatsApp group cannot be held vicariously liable for any objectionable content posted on it by any of its members, the Kerala high court has held.
'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.
Describing information technology as a change-agent, Modi said IT has the power to transform the country in several ways.
More people using the internet for financial and e-commerce transactions has led to job creation in a niche segment. Specialists who can help deal with rising technology (tech) frauds are in high demand amid the surge in electronic transactions during the pandemic. Demand for tech fraud experts has risen upwards of 35 per cent, reveals employment and human resource services company TeamLease Services.
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and the finance minister were in the commercial capital to participate in a road show organised jointly by the Gujarat government and Confederation of Indian Industry for the Vibrant Gujarat summit, slated for January next year.
The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) in a press release revealed that the Ministry's Secretary, in a virtual interaction with Twitter officials, expressed his deep disappointment to Twitter leadership about the manner in which it has unwillingly, grudgingly and with great delay complied with the substantial parts of the order.
The MMS had allegedly been put on the website of Bazee.com for sale.
Defining "modern medicine" for the first time, the National Medical Commission (NMC), in its code of conduct, has introduced a major change, proposing the use of "Med Dr" as a prefix for those registered under the NMC Act, 2019, as practitioners of modern medicine.
American electronic chip maker Texas Instruments on Wednesday said engineers at its India research and development centre were developing a single chip solution for mobile phones.
The new mantra was to align Apple's ambition with the government's, focusing on Modi's favourite themes of Make in India, employment generation and India as a high-tech export hub.
The Indian government on Tuesday posed 14 questions to WhatsApp on its "invasive" changes in Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
The top court also asked the Centre to submit its report in January on the notification of rules by which social media misuse can be checked and liability could be fastened on intermediaries to decrypt messages.
Mastek Ltd has been awarded a 10-year contract by Syntegra, BT's system integration arm, for an initial sum of 27 million pound as part of the national programme for information technology within the United Kingdom's National Health Service.
The Make in India Week has become a platform for two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states to jostle for the number one destination in India for investor funds.
Telecom gear makers say will take six to eight months for the top 10 cities to have some reasonable coverage of 5G network services.
Acknowledging India's prowess in information technology, GE Aircraft Engines has said it intended to develop software for digital electronic control systems for helicopter engines in this country as part of its long-term strategy.
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