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Jun32017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

What Indian users really do on the Internet

Indian consumers are choosing on-demand internet shows over television soaps and reality shows, and thereby adopting bandwidth intensive entertainment apps due to a significant drop in mobile internet rates after Reliance Jio's 4G rollout, says Mary Meeker's 2017 internet trends report. Messaging and utility apps, however, still rule the roost in terms of most downloaded non-gaming Android apps in the country. Here are some key findings.Indian consumers are choosing on-demand internet shows over television soaps and reality shows, and thereby adopting bandwidth intensive entertainment apps due to a significant drop in mobile internet rates after Reliance Jio's 4G rollout, says Mary Meeker's 2017 internet trends report. Messaging and utility apps, however, still rule the roost in terms of...

Jun32017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Elon Musk praise India’s aim to move to an all-electric fleet by 2030

National, Technology, USA

Tesla founder Elon Musk hailed India’s aim to move to an all-electric fleet by 2030, on a day when President Donald Trump said the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Tesla enthusiasts in India may indeed have much to look forward in the coming days, as Musk responded positively to a tweet from Anand Mahindra, who prodded him to bring his electric cars to this country. Musk welcoming India’s move comes close on the heels of the Canadian-American businessman announcing his resignation from all three positions on the Presidential Councils, over Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. “Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk tweeted, not hiding his dismay at the move. While he was upset with the US President, ...

Jun32017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

RGI urges states to safeguard Aadhaar data collected for National Population Register exercise

National

After Information and Technology (IT) Ministry, the Union Home Ministry has also woken up to the challenge of avoiding leakage of Aadhaar details, realising it too had recorded the Aadhaar numbers of people during National Population Register (NPR) exercise. Registrar General of India (RGI) has recently written to all states that the Aadhaar details collected during the NPR exercise also need to be safeguarded – which may well be a logistical nightmare given such details exist in form of paper documents at the level of not just state departments but also district and even sub-district levels. All this data was to be used for issuing Resident Identity Cards to all above 18 years – a project to which Cabinet is still to give its approval. Leakage of Aadhaar details of people and the uni...

Jun22017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

ISRO in news over heavy-lift rocket launch on June 5

National

An anxious Indian space establishment is keeping its fingers crossed over the launch of its new and most powerful rocket on June 5. On that evening, the indigenous GSLV-Mark III makes a bid to breach a heavy-lift rocket club that can put four-tonne satellites into space. The U.S., Russia, Europe, China and Japan are already there. The first development vehicle, called GSLV-MkIII D-1, is slated to fly from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 5.28 p.m., says the Indian Space Research Organisation. The success of the first full flight of Mk III will mean that soon, Indian communication satellites can be lofted into space from within the country. It will also improve ISRO’s ability to reach heavier satellites to both — the higher geostationary transfer orbit or GTO of 36,000 ...

Jun22017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Job cuts exaggerated, to hire 20,000 this year: Infosys COO

National

IT services major Infosys today said it will hire 20,000 people this year as against only 400 people being asked to leave on performance grounds and termed reports of large-scale job losses as "overstated". Infosys COO UB Pravin Rao said the technology-driven transformation presents new opportunities for companies like Infosys. "With respect to all the talks of layoffs, it's regular performance based things that we do every year. The number is really 300-400, which is consistent with what we have seen every year," Rao told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. He said the country's second largest software exporter is "creating more jobs, adding more people and letting go of only minuscule number of people, purely from performance related per...

Jun22017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Trump decided to pull the United States from the Paris Climate Accord

USA

Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of the US from the Paris agreement on climate change, saying he wants to "renegotiate" a fairer deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers. Mr Trump, who has made pulling out of the pact – which has been signed by almost 200 nations – a central plank of his run for the presidency, said that in withdrawing he was keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first. He said that "if we can get a deal, that's great. If not, that's fine." The President had been put under extreme pressure by allies around the world to stay in the agreement, and although the administration said his views on the subject were "evolving" – having previously claimed climate change was a "hoax" – Mr Trump refused to be backed into a corner. He said ...

May312017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Normalcy restored in Kashmir Valley after 3 days of restrictions and strike

J&K

Normalcy returned in Kashmir valley today after three days of restrictions and strike in the aftermath of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat in an encounter with security forces. There were no restrictions anywhere in Kashmir, officials said, adding life was going on normally across the valley. Shops, offices, fuel stations and other business establishments opened here this morning, while public transport resumed after three days, the officials said. They said similar reports of restoration of normalcy were received from other districts of the valley. However, the officials said classwork in all schools and colleges in the districts of Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama and Budgam has been suspended for the day as a precautionary measure. They said all higher secondary schoo...

May312017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Link Aadhaar with PAN Card: Send SMS to 567678 or 56161 to link both unique identity numbers

Information

Linking Aadhaar card to Permanent Account Number (PAN) card has now become a mandatory procedure for filing Income Tax returns. For this, the Income Tax Department has launched a slew of initiatives that would help individuals get done with the process hassle free as early as possible. But if you still haven’t linked both the unique identity numbers, here’s a golden chance! The IT department on Wednesday rolled out an SMS facility and urged taxpayers to link their Aadhaar card with PAN card. The IT department issued advertisements in leading national newspapers and mentioned how both the unique identity numbers of an individual can be linked by sending an SMS to either 567678 or 56161.

May302017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh orders strict adherence to BJP’s vision document

Uttarakhand

Describing BJP’S vision document as an “article of faith” for him, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has told all government departments to follow it verbatim and deliver on commitments made to people. Rawat who held a meeting with officials on the party’s vision document here yesterday asked all departments to tailor their proposals strictly in accordance with the commitments made by the party in its vision document for Uttarakhand assembly polls 2017 and submit them to him. Making it clear that no negligence on their part in this regard will be tolerated, the Chief Minister said the vision document is an “article of faith” to him which has to be followed verbatim. “All promises made in it have to be delivered on fully in a time-bound manner and departments mus...

May302017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Cyclone hits Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands evacuated

Bangladesh

Cyclone Mora made landfall in Bangladesh today damaging several houses and packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from the coastal areas. In a special bulletin, Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the severe cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ moved northwards over North Bay and started crossing Cox’s Bazar- Chittagong coast at 6:00 AM (local time). It is likely to move in a northerly direction further, it said. Under its influence, gusty or squally wind with rain or thunder showers were continuing over North Bay and the coastal districts and maritime ports of Bangladesh., the Daily Star reported. Maximum sustained wind speed within 64 km of the cyclone centre was about 89 kph rising to 117 kph in gusts or squalls, it said. ...