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It is a well known fact by now, that Indian government is seeking access to user data from Internet companies like Google and Skype, citing security concerns. It had also

Image Credit: @rajivmakhni As anticipated earlier, India’s $35 tablet “Aakash” (not Sakshat as rumoured earlier) was officially launched today by the Minister of Communications and Information technology, Kapil Sibal. Dubbed the

Sachin Pilot, Indian Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, has launched a new web based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for Hindi and Punjabi. Explaining that this initiative

India’s Department of Information Technology has announced that it will be teaming up with National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) to launch a single payment gateway for its e-governance services by

Three dead bodies were identified by their family members when their photographs were uploaded onto Facebook by a government official. The Times of India reports that the people identified were

India is a democratic country. But this time round, democracy in India has gotten itself a face lift. The Planning Commission of India recently introduced a Facebook Fan Page to

In a bid to raise awareness amongst the population, the Government of India had taken the initiative to launch a Census 2011 Facebook page. The page does not only promote