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Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) is implementing a scheme titled Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) which aims to assist institutions of higher learning to strengthen their Technology Incubation Centers and enable young entrepreneurs to initiate technology startup companies for commercial exploitation of technologies developed by them. ...

The IT & ITeS sector has also been a major contributor to the Service Sector of the Indian Economy. The trend is expected to grow provided the Government provides an enabling atmosphere for the Private Sectors to innovate, sustain and grow. Manipur’s new IT Policy-2015 is planned to lay the ...

News: The central government has written to chief ministers of all states to allow mobile towers on government buildings within their jurisdiction to check the problem of ‘call drop’ plaguing mobile communication networks. Certain protests against construction of mobile towers in residential areas at many places citing harmful effects of ...

News: India’s postal department is set to launch a pilot programme that seeks to help farmers sell their produce over the Internet, that too without spending a paisa on transport. The plan is to deploy postmasters in villages to collate details from farmers on their produce and upload the data ...

News: The government is planning to train some 3,000 beggars to sing much like the bards of yore about the signature plans like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and many other initiatives on local trains in major cities with a view to popularise them among urban commuter folk. ...

News: The Election commission of India is keen on drafting a model code of conduct for the media to ensure some norms are adhered to during coverage of elections, a proposal which if implemented will mark the first formal code of its kind in the country. The election commissioners want ...

News: Indian posts to inform customers about the status of mails, parcels, money orders and other deliveries through SMS. The postal department has also decided to start tracking their postmen with help of GPS enabled handheld devices by October. This will help locate the postmen visiting the addresses given to ...

News The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry on Friday appointed Veena Jain as director general (news) in Doordarshan will be  reporting directly to the ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Jain, an additional secretary rank official, will also hold charge as officer on special duty overseeing the ministry’s new media wing ...