The government has allowed companies to send notices and documents to their shareholders and members electronically in order to facilitate paperless communication.
Within the next two years, verification and scrutiny of returns will happen electronically through anonymised back offices manned by tax experts and officials. It will function without any personal interface between taxpayers and tax officers. Both the taxpayer and the tax officer will not know each other -- who is scrutinising whose return, and at which place, points out Kuldip Kumar, partner and leader personal tax, PwC.
The government also wants to ensure that content meant for radicalising youths, from outfits like Islamic State, doesn't find circulation in India.
Paytm plans to induct 5,000 manufacturers and sellers; has started programmes to identify and train new sellers.
The Orwellian surveillance State is here. And here to stay, asserts Virendra Kapoor.
'Many already toe the line, those on the fence will be nudged to stand with the government even more, those who are critical will face trouble soon.'
In a strange irony, the Twitter account of none other than Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Milind Deora was suspended by the micro-blogging site.
'Unless the economy is sound in the country how can only three movies collected so much business in a single day?'
HCL Technologies Ltd said on Tuesday its wholly-owned subsidiary HCL Australia Pty will enter into a partnership with La Trobe University, Australia, on Wednesday to work together on issues of mutual interest. \n
The elephant in the room will permeate the conversations, predicts Rup Narayan Das.
'This is the first time the US has formally recognised the threat India faces from terrorist organisations based in Pakistan.'
The young minister of State for Communications and Information Technology shares his views on how his professional education has helped him shed the stereotypical image of a politician.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India has made its policies transparent and predictable and clearly defined the procedures for businesses.
The department has warned taxpayers that illegal 'mobile applications' circulating in the webworld for smartphones, especially Android and BlackBerry phones, 'may not be according to the department's data structure' and parameters.
'When the Americans are talking about colonising Mars by 2030, India cannot be lagging behind.'
W12 Studios will be part of TCS Interactive, further strengthening the already impressive array of creative and experience services it offers
'The highlight of the interview process is it is robotic.'
India's national security strategy needs to be revised periodically since the global and regional geopolitical situation is dynamic, points out Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Digitisation is changing the banking business. This shift has resulted in a change in banking job profiles.
The Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham announces admissions the Bachelor of Technology admissions for its three Schools of Engineering.
Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, A Raja on Wednesday assured that the Indian IT sector that the ministry was doing its best to convince the government that the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme should be extended beyond 2009.
'If there are any incidents of cyberattacks, they should immediately inform CERT.'
The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay invites applications for its Distance Education Programme aimed at industry professionals, college faculty and eligible graduates.
Telcos propose licence regime for apps like WhatsApp, Skype.
Pichai will visit India accompanied by the heads of various Google business units
The government has the power to monitor, intercept and even block online conversations and websites.
'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi.
St Peter's Institute of Higher Education & Research opens admissions to its BE, BTech, ME and MTech courses.
Intel Corporation chief operating officer Paul Otellini on Monday advised Indian CEOs in the information technology industry to accelerate Wi-Fi (wireless networking) adoption in order to continue its growth in a technology savvy global economy.
'Section 153A is not meant to protect fragile sentiments of the majority Hindu community who choose to get offended by slogans celebrating the success of the Pakistani cricket team.'
Chongqing, a populous economic hub in south-western China, is hoping to become Asia's largest manufacturing base for information technology products.
The application makes it easy for IBM partners and clients like Polaris to build an entirely new class of cloud-based social business apps.
Indian information technology software and services industry is truly the lighthouse of modern India.
Privacy is liberty itself. And in ruling on it, the Supreme Court must not only seize the concerns of today but also gaze into the future, says Apar Gupta.
The reshuffle had politics at its heart, so the biggest complement of new ministers, both Cabinet rank and below, came from UP, which will see assembly elections in a few months.
Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot on Monday said that the Congress was contemplating taking legal action against Janata Party president Dr Subramaniam Swamy for making 'allegations' against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Gandhi family on 'flimsy grounds'."All the allegations that he has been making in the 2G spectrum case, particularly against the prime minister and others, are totally baseless and unwarranted," he said.
The government plans to issue UID numbers to 600 million people by 2014.
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