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The National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) was launched from Amritsar in Punjab for 12 cities in the country including the Holy city of Amritsar, the centre of Sikhism to be the first under this project. Government of India has sanctioned Rs. 69.31 crore as 100% grant for Amritsar city. Union Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting Shri Arun Jaitley launched this Yojana at Amritsar in the presence of Union Ministers Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, and Shri Vijay Sampla, and Chief Minister of Punjab Shri Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal. Foundation stone was also laid today, to make Amritsar-Bathinda-Ganganagar Highway Four Lane and for Hrike by Pass project which are worth Rs.1100 crore. Also, a Rehabilitation Centre, Amritsar – a project worth Rs.5.66 crore, was also inaugurated... Read more

Taking the honourable Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India forward, Videocon Telecom has took another big initiative and has announced 1GB free Data for all its female subscribers coming aboard. Under this initiative, the telco talked about women empowerment and declared 1GB free data that will be extended as 100MB per month for 10 months for all female subscribers. This benefit will be over and above any other data benefit provided to subscribers at the time of acquisition. As per Videocon Telecom, the percentage of data users among female users is slightly less than males, and this initiative will definitely increase the data penetration among female subscribers. The telco will also be providing a help-line for first time data users on know-how of internet and data usage on mobile phones. The telco also announced free and unlimited access to government’s web portal, the National Portal of India i.e. india.gov.in andindia.gov.in/hi for all its subscribers. This will enable ea...

D-Link (India) Limited has been awarded as the ‘Best Enterprise’ in the field of IT & Computer Networks, and  its Executive Director & CEO Tushar Sighat has been acknowledged as ‘Manager of the Year.’ The Socrates Award Ceremony held on 1st July 2015 at Fairmont Le Montreux Palace – Switzerland, in association with the Europe Business Assembly (The Socrates Committee – Oxford). Tushar Sighat CEO dlink1 D Link honoured with the European Business Assembly AwardElated on receiving the prestigious award, Tushar Sighat, Executive Director & CEO – D-Link (India) Ltd. said, “This is yet another proud moment for all of us at D-Link as we continue to grow & achieve new milestones of success. D-Link’s journey in recent times has been extremely rewarding, with our employees & business partners/ associates showing highest level of commitment & perseverance in achieving business goals. I accept this award with utmost humility & am honoured to be receiving the ...

A global study, commissioned by CA Technologies, has revealed that Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations, despite noted challenges in implementation. 44 percent of the Indian respondents have already implemented a Big Data project while 36 percent plan to implement one in the coming year. In addition to this, 12 percent of the Indian respondents have stated that they have implemented four Big Data projects to date. ca technologies logo e1425889028205 CA Technologies Study discloses the State of Big Data InfrastructureThe study, titled ‘The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance’, has revealed the top five major obstacles Indian organizations need to overcome for successful big data project implementation. Those are, insufficient existing infrastructure (33 percent), organizational complexity (25 percent), security/compliance concerns (28 percent), lack of budget/resources (25 percent), ...

With the government committee endorsing the concept of net neutrality, its recommendations have raised some major concerns for consumers and start-ups. Those hooked to applications like WhatsApp, Skype and Viber may no longer be able to make free domestic calls (barring negligible data charges) through these voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services. However, instant messaging and international calls through these services will remain free, if these recommendations are implemented. whatsapp vibre skype No longer free calls available on WhatsApp, Viber, SkypeAnother suggestion by the committee that zero-rating platforms be treated on a case-by-case basis and clearance sought from telecom regulator TRAI opens up the worrying possibility of discrimination in favour of established, cash-rich internet application providers. This could potentially stifle innovation and kill the burgeoning start-up culture in the country. On the positive side, it did not recommend any regulatory con...