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MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar to attend India Global Forum event on Mar 7-8

Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be attending the India Global Forum (IGF) event at Bengaluru on March 7-8, an official statement said on Sunday.

Policy in 7-8 days to promote pvt sector R&D in railways: Vaishnaw

The Indian Railways will come up with a policy in the next 7-8 days to make private-sector research and development a major part of the railway budget with 90 per cent allocation in the future, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Wednesday. While speaking in the concluding session of a post-Budget webinar on technology-enabled development, the railway minister said the defence and space sector has already broken the silos by opening up research and development (R&D) for the private sector and the same needs to be done in other sectors as well. "We are starting something in the Railways soon. In another 7-8 days, we will launch a new policy where private sector R&D would become an integral part or rather major part of railways R&D budget. "We do hope that going forward, probably 90 per cent of railways R&D budget would be in the private sector compared with 100 per cent in the public sector at present," Vaishnaw said. Vaishnaw, who also handles the telecom and IT ...

Google removes over 100,000 pieces of bad content in India in January

The 104,285 pieces of content were removed under various categories like Copyright, Trademark, Court Order, Graphic Sexual Content, Circumvention, and others

Hoping Parliament clears data protection law by Monsoon session: Vaishnaw

Extensive deliberations are on over various aspects and suggestions related to the draft data protection Bill, and the government hopes to resolve certain complex issues soon, Ashwini Vaishnaw said

Regulation coming to put onus of cyber crime reporting on orgs: MoS IT

The government is coming up with a regulation that will make organisations hit by any cybercrime incidence to disclose it before the government, Minister of State for Electronics and IT said

Bill Gates to address BioAsia in fireside chat with Telangana IT Minister

Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates will speak about the road ahead for life science and healthcare industries at BioAsia 2022, beginning from February 24.

Capgemini views India as more than a delivery centre: Group CEO Aiman Ezzat

The company is increasing the number of centres of excellence in the country this year. Many of these will now focus on technologies like IoT, smart factory, intelligent supply chain

Make Big Tech accountable to communities and society: MoS Electronics & IT

Nations must cooperate to make firms like Facebook, Google answerable: Min

'Superb response,' says Vaishnaw on govt's semiconductor manufacturing push

Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday welcomed the "superb" response from the industry for the government's semiconductor manufacturing initiatives.

India's semiconductor consumption estimated at Rs 1.1 trn in 2020: MoS IT

The minister said that beside Rs 76,000 crore semicon programme, the government has also approved modernisation of SemiConductor Laboratory, Mohali as a brownfield Fab

Govt is aware of possible risks associated with online games: MoS IT

The government is aware of risks and user harms linked to online games involving money transactions, but information technology ministry has no proposal to bring them under the category of gambling

Govt willing to intoduce stricter social media norms: IT Minister

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the Narendra Modi-led government is willing to introduce stricter social media norms and all micro-blogging sites

Over 6,000 URLs, accounts or websites blocked in 2021: Chandrasekhar

He added that the Indian government is committed to ensuring an open, safe and trusted and accountable Internet

Semiconductor mission launched by IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The India Semiconductor Mission is a specialised and independent business division within the Digital India Corporation

Firms can submit proposals for semiconductor fabs, display units from Jan 1

Companies can submit proposals for setting up semiconductor and display manufacturing units from January 1

IT Min tweets 'Intel-welcome to India' after top exec lauds chip incentives

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday took to Twitter to "welcome" Intel to India following a post by Intel Foundry Services president Randhir Thakur lauding the semiconductor design and manufacturing incentives announced by the government recently. Earlier this month, the government had approved a Rs 76,000-crore scheme to boost semiconductor and display manufacturing in the country, in a bid to position India as a global hub for hi-tech production, and attract large chip makers. The move is expected to further India's ambitions to be self-reliant in electronics manufacturing, bring massive investments and result in 35,000 specialised jobs apart from indirect employment for one lakh people. IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday tweeted "Intel - welcome to India." This was in response to a tweet by Intel's Thakur which said, "Congrats to @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw @Rajeev_GoI for Semiconductor design & manufacturing incentives for India as hub for electronics & ...

Vaishnaw welcomes Intel after it lauds govt's semiconductors decision

Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw welcomed Intel to India

Need tighter regulations to deal with cybercrimes: IT minister in Lok Sabha

There is a need for tighter regulations to deal with cybercrimes, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. Replying to questions in Lok Sabha, Vaishnaw underlined the need to have "a lot of discussions and a broader consensus" on bringing "stricter norms" for over-the-top (OTT) platforms to check the telecast of movies and serials that create disharmony among various communities and religions. "This subject of cybercrimes, the way it is affecting our children, actually there is a need to have a consensus for making much tighter regulation. There is no doubt about it," the minister said during the Question Hour. "(Whenever) we make cyber laws tighter by even a little bit and try to implement it, all of our members start shouting that democracy is being throttled and people's right to freedom is being taken away," added. Raising the issue of cybercrimes and children becoming victim of cyber bullying, Congress member Hibi Eden had .

IT min asks bankers to create robust platform for easy credit availability

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw exhorted the banking industry to create an innovative digital platform for providing quick and easy credit to MSMEs, small businessmen, and those at the bottom of pyramid.

MeitY proposes national blockchain strategy for adoption across sectors

Suggesting a multi-institutional model for architecting the NBF, MeitY has said organisations must be identified along with their roles and responsibilities.