THE NATIONAL DIGITAL COMMUNICATION POLICY 2018

Indian-American Garima Verma named digital director in Office of the First Lady

Verma, who was born in India, grew up in Ohio and the Central Valley of California. She served as an audience development and content strat...

WhatsApp tweaks privacy policy to share more user data with Facebook

WhatsApp's updated privacy policy and terms of service allows WhatsApp and Facebook to share user information with businesses and third-par...

India's economy could prove to be 'most resilient' in subregion over long term: UN

"India's economy could prove the most resilient in the subregion over the long term. FDI inflows have been steadily increasing and positive...

Reliance Communications' resolution may hit a bump as banks mark its account as fraud

Resolution applicants Reliance Jio Infocomm and UV Asset Reconstruction Co. Ltd (UVARCL) may want to seek indemnity from any investigative ...

Emergency no 112 to be available for disaster relief in 2 years; alert protocol in 4 yrs: NDMA official

The NDMA is also working to roll out a common alert protocol that will use all communication mediums like SMS, mobile apps, radio and telev...

TEMA appoints former telecom secretary R Chandrashekhar as Digital Empowerment Council Chairman

Chandrashekhar played an instrumental role in laying down the country's first electronics manufacturing policy in 2012 as the IT secretary.

Centre mulls new policy that can reduce India’s logistics costs by 5% over next 5 years

National Logistics Policy, 2020 entails handing out a a unique logistics account number to logistics service providers, track and trace, an...

Cabinet clears public WiFi venture to drive broadband adoption

Millions of data-hungry consumers across India will soon enjoy top download speeds and quality video experience anywhere and at all times w...

As India Inc works from home, the challenges of adopting 5G become glaringly obvious

Experts say the future wave of 5G use cases won’t have any meaningful impact unless India’s fragile digital infrastructure quickly sees a c...

‘Enabling the new normal’ to be theme of Times Network’s Digital India Summit

In its latest edition the summit will drive the theme of ‘Enabling the New Normal’, taking cognizance of the new reality of the world disru...

IIMs defend single-year MBA Degree citing IIM Act, National Education Policy

In July this year, the education ministry had told the IIMs that their decision to award a degree instead of diploma for the course violate...

On U.S. digital rights, Biden presidency could be 'a real opportunity'

As the Democratic former vice president lays the groundwork for his administration, 10 U.S.-based digital rights and racial justice groups ...

Telcos still hopeful of reduction in spectrum price, doing regular follow-up on NDCP: COAI

The DCC, the apex decision making body of the Department of Telecom (DoT), in May had approved the spectrum auction plan subject to the Uni...

Dept of Space doesn't want to free up any spectrum in 26 Ghz MM wave; telcos fret

At a time when telcos want the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the sector regulator to ensure both millimeter-wave spectrum and ...

New education policy aims to achieve twin objectives of inclusion, excellence: President

Addressing the Visitors' Conference on 'Implementation of National Education Policy 2020 in Higher Education', the President said the polic...

Broadband services to reach in all villages by 2022: MoS Telecom, IT Sanjay Dhotre

The national mission aims to accelerate the growth of digital infrastructure, bridge the digital divide, and provide affordable and univers...

AGR verdict brings certainty; DoT should now focus on ease of biz, industry profitability: BIF

Broadband India Forum has also urged the Department of Telecom (DoT) to take quick decisions on a spate of recommendations which have alrea...