To begin with, the service will be available in 30 places across the country. The postal department would issue railway tickets through the computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters provided by the railway ministry.
Bringing ticket booking facilities to the doorsteps of passengers, Indian Railways will from now allow selling of reserved tickets through post offices.
This will be the first time BJP's prime ministerial candidate holds a discussion with IT, telecom czars.
The Income-tax department has conducted searches at multiple premises of Chinese telecom company Huawei in the country as part of a tax evasion investigation, official sources said on Wednesday. The raids were launched at the company's premises in Delhi, Gurugram (Haryana) and Bengaluru in Karnataka on Tuesday. Sources said the officials looked at financial documents, account books and company records as part of a tax evasion investigation against the company, its Indian businesses and overseas transactions.
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".
'As the demand for transferable skills that can be remotely applied increases, the need for tech-based courses is on the rise/'
The software major has plans to invest Rs 500 crore at Kolkata campus that will create employment for 5,000 professionals. The company is yet to get possession of 90 acres of land assured by the state government. West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said that Infosys had shown apprehension about investing in the state following recent incidents in Singur where Trinamool Congress has been agitating against acquisition of farmland by the state governme
IMD is preparing a concept paper on narrowing its grid resolution from 22 sq km to 10 sq km.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had booked Shubham Shokeen and another former employee Aarti Mandal in the case on the basis of a complaint from the French embassy.
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 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 government has the power to monitor, intercept and even block online conversations and websites.
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.
Overlooked yet capable candidates will now have the opportunity to apply for TCS open requirements.
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.
State-level reports every quarter for service quality and artificial intelligence-based solutions may be officially mandated as part of a set of more stringent, updated quality-of-service (QoS) norms by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) soon. The new norms will also factor in user experience for 5G networks, officials informed Business Standard. In February, Trai asked telecommunication (telecom) service providers (TSPs) to submit updates on measures taken to reduce call drops and lags and raise the quality of connection.
These firms are already affected by falling margins, delays in getting orders and the ongoing financial crisis in their second-biggest market, Europe.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin's Cabinet, including him, would be 34-member strong and he has retained senior leaders like Duraimurugan and over a dozen shall be ministers for the first time.
The first state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US is likely to be a defining moment for Indo-US relationship and both sides are working on a robust outcome document that may take up matters that would decide the contour of the bilateral ties for decades to come, according to people familiar with the planning of the high-profile trip.
'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 former Satyam Computer's founder, Ramalinga Raju, had confessed in early 2009 to having falsified the company's accounts for years.
Computer emergency response teams will be strengthened with ethical hackers who will respond to cyberattacks.
IMD has decided to increasingly use cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in forecasting, both to avoid such glitches and to counter the disruption of normal seasonal patterns as a result of climate change. It has formed various internal sub-groups of senior officials and meteorologists to decide on how best to use AI and ML in predicting cyclone intensity, and in making short-range weather forecasts (those valid for up to three hours) as well as long-range forecasts.
A rogue worm has hit the site, which directs the victim to an IP address, asking to download a fake antivirus.
It is learnt that the SNLTR is also working on Bangla classics.
Concordia University confers honorary doctorate on Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy.
Uber has come up with a technology integration feature called "emergency assistance" that aims to provide public safety authorities with real-time actionable data in case of an emergency during a ride. In the event of an emergency, riders or drivers will be able to share their live location, which shall be updated every four seconds, along with their name and contact details at the swipe of a button on the Uber app with the police. This will lead to saving critical time by providing potentially life-saving assistance by the police.
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.
According to the fresh guidelines that will come into force from Sunday morning, inter-district movement of private vehicles has been restricted and the timings for shops and government offices have been shortened.
The new cabinet, predictably, has a sizeable number of Yadavs and Muslims, though members of other sections of the society also find a place.
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.
'This is a race where every technology can be used by the bad guys and good guys.'
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.
Vishwajit Rane, who had unsuccessfully lobbied for the CM's post, has been given crucial Health and Town and Country Planning Portfolios along with Urban Development, Women and Child, and Forest departments.
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.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B ministry) may launch its review of the government's plan to potentially reserve the crucial C-band of radio frequencies for 5G and 6G telecommunication (telecom) use, said officials. While the incumbent broadcasting operators have warned that the plan will leave "precious little spectrum" for broadcasting services, telecom service providers (TSPs) have pressed hard for getting access to the C-band. In multiple letters to the I&B ministry over the past month, the News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) has said the industry would be left with precious little spectrum for broadcasting services if the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) further allocates the scant C-band for 5G.
An order, issued last year, makes it mandatory for certain electronic products being sold in the Indian market to comply with BIS specifications
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