News: Google India, in partnership with Tata Trust announced the launch of an initiative named ‘Internet Saathi’ which aims to impart Internet literacy to women in rural India and help them use the technology in their daily lives. With this joint venture, Anandan,VP and MD of Google Southeast Asia and ...
Read More »Bengaluru schoolgirls develop Sellixo android app
News: Five girl students from Bengaluru, made India proud by becoming world-beaters at the Technovation Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco on June 24, for developing mobile app named Sellixo. Team Pentechan, all 9th standard students (14 years old), from the New Horizon Public School (NHPS) reached the summit at the ...
Read More »How does Aadhaar card work?
News: The Aadhaar card is a Unique Identification (UID) number, which would serve as proof of identity and address all over India and are saved in a central database. The aim is to prove the successful use of the Aadhaar APIs (Application Program Interface), which were already provided to the ...
Read More »Indian postal department should aggresively market its products: Ravishankar Prasad
News: Union Communications and IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad called on the postal department employees to aggressively market its products, including postal services, e-commerce, banking and insurance. Prasad said he wants to make a turnaround and aggressively market the products like e-commerce, banking and insurance apart from the core postal services. He has assured that there ...
Read More »India in the top ranking space nations: China report
News: India to be ranked in the top rankings of space-faring nations , as it is the only Asian country to send a spacecraft to Mars. India became the first Asian country to successfully send a probe to Mars in 2014, marking a breakthrough in its space capability. The Beijing institute ...
Read More »Nasscom signs MOU with Symantec for building skilled cyber security professionals
News: The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and cyber security firm Symantec, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for ‘Building cyber security skills. The MoU was signed between R. Chandrashekhar, president, Nasscom and Michael Brown, president and CEO, Symantec. Nasscom stated that the Sector Skill Council, Nasscom ...
Read More »Free Wi-Fi at Taj Mahal started
News Tourists visiting Taj Mahal will now be able to upload selfies or photographs clicked with their loved ones directly from the 17th century monument of love. BSNL has made special arrangements to introduce the facility with support from Quadgen, a Bengaluru-based company. Facility Half-an-hour free Wi-Fi Internet facility in ...
Read More »10 crore enrollments in the social security schemes
Nearly 10 crore of the Indian citizens have been enrolled under the recently launched 3 social security schemes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has showed immense happiness towards this achievement and has mentioned “Enthusiasm of people towards social security schemes and efforts of banks have been very gladdening. They made this record ...
Read More »China draws inspiration from India’s Software City: Looking for a Contract
News The historic city of Xi’an in northwest China is busy developing a new software city inspired by the Bengaluru model. Local authorities are looking up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for assistance in this regard and want him to sign a contract with the Chinese government to this effect ...
Read More »Spectrum Auction and Digital India
News India bids for airwaves crossed Rs 1 lakh crore or $18 billion, making the spectrum auction the biggest ever sale of spectrum by value. Benefits The auction has opened a number of new opportunities for subscribers in new circles for 3G services in 2100 Mhz band and LTE in ...
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