The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITy) and IBM India Pvt announced a collaboration to create a robust education and skilling ecosystem that creates critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and next generation innovators through the Common Services Centre Academy. CSC Academy – part of Common Services Centre (CSC) scheme of the Government of India’s flagship Digital…
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Govt of India approves Samsung, iPhone makers for Rs10.5 lakh cr smartphone incentive plan
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•The Government of India has approved applications of Samsung and 3 Apple iphone makers — Foxconn Technology Group, Wistron Corp., Pegatron Corp., to manufacture mobile phones in the country over the next five years. They are among the 16 companies that won approval under the Production-Linked Incentive scheme (PLI). According to the Indian Ministry of…
T-Hub, MeitY and Digital India partner to lead a program for Hardware startups in India
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•T-Hub, which leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem, announced its partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Digital India. As part of the partnership, T-Hub will lead Digital India’s Scale Up program for hardware and IoT startups across India. MeitY, Digital India’s aim is to provide scale up opportunities to the startups…
India bans 59 Chinese origin apps including TikTok amid border crisis
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•Amid an ongoing border crisis between India and China, the Indian government announced that it is banning about 59 apps with Chinese origin in the country. The recent announcement from the New Delhi government comes just days after 20 Indian soldiers were martyred in a violent clash at the Galwan Valley near the Line of…
Govt of India seeks indigenous video conferencing platform due to privacy concerns
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•As the novel coronavirus pandemic led to the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, video conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Meet saw a sudden rise in their user database. Organizations around the world are now moving ahead with their daily tasks via video conferencing through these apps. But their usage has also drawn severe criticism from…