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IT minister chaired a "brain storming session" with the academia, IT industry and government officials in Panaji to understand the gap existing between the manpower and the industry requirement

DoT has exempted "Mobile user equipment/mobile handset", "server", "smart watch", "smart camera" and "point of sale devices" from "prior mandatory testing and certification in respect of parameters"

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said digital divide should be bridged for digital inclusion to take place so that the marginalised people are not left out from technological development.

IT minister Anurag Thakur made a pitch for India becoming a "content hub of the world" as he led a star-studded delegation at the 75th Cannes Film Festival

The government will review norms of the design linked incentive (DLI) program which envisages supporting 100 companies involved in product design in the semiconductor space, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said

The collaboration will support a group of promising semiconductor design startups

The Minister of State for Electronics and IT said that the Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) programme aims to create future generations of microprocessors

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Terming startups as "accelerators", he said the combination of their multiplier force along with the strength of a trusted post office network can yield phenomenal results

Semicon India 2022, a 3-day conference, is being organised to take forward the vision of PM Modi to make India a leader in electronics manufacturing, semiconductor design, manufacturing and innovation

WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned 1,426,000 bad accounts in India in the month of February in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021

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.

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 ...

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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

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

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.

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

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