Today, we went to get our marriage certificate - in a process that gives enough reason all through the way to engage the services of a tout, blatantly flaunting the notice put up right at the entrance to the office.
This like a number of other Government services is as archaic as it can get, […]
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Google Australia on Friday unveiled what it described as the world’s most powerful dedicated election website, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
With an election due in Australia before the end of the year, Google claims its website would be a powerful tool for voters and would help generate debate during […]
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A microfinance Web site that lets people lend as little as $25 to small businesses from Vietnam to Kenya is drawing so much interest from lenders that it’s struggling to keep up.
Kiva works with dozens of microcredit groups who pick needy businesses - from a Honduran woman selling cosmetics to a Cambodian weaving business or […]
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With a view to provide specialized health services to patients in rural areas, a two way telemedicine link between Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here and Community Health Centres at Haryana and Rajasthan was established today.
Launching the pilot project ‘Village Resource Centre´ (VRC), a link between the hospital and CHCs in Gohana, Haryana and Kaithun, Rajasthan, […]
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The fishermen of Veerampattinam will soon have a mobile phone enabled intelligence system that will tell them everything from where to fish to when to venture home because the weather could turn ugly. M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is working on on a solution to provide real time information on mobile phones using CDMA. The […]
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Reuters: State restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and stifle feared political opposition, a new report says.
In “Governing the Internet”, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) presented case studies of Web censorship in […]
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Keeping in line with the Indian government’s strategy to automate income tax filing, Yureeka.com helps users in preparing their income tax returns online. Yureeka Taxes uses a step-by-step question-and-answer format to collect data from a user. Further, it calculates the tax payable or refundable, and creates a completed Income Tax Return ready for filing. The […]
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A video on YouTube recently resulted in a police-brutality investigation by the FBI. In recent months, videos posted on YouTube have rocked political campaigns, brought fame — or infamy — to previously unknown talents and cast unwanted attention on the gaffes of the famous. YouTube and similar video sites are also increasingly becoming repositories for […]
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I recently got my Digital Certificate from MTNL Trustline. This now opens a plethora of services that the Government could put online - registering your company, filing of taxes, etc. I later came across this article in the Economic Times which talked about the move towards a paperless world. As this other article mentions, the […]
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