The average attrition rate across manufacturing and services industries increased sequentially to 8.27 per cent in the October-December quarter, a report said on Monday. With a continuance of the ‘Great Churn’, attrition across industries witnessed a 0.46 percentage point increase from an average of 7.81 per cent in the second quarter to 8.27 per cent … Read more
Dehradun (Uttarakhand): The Health Department of Uttarakhand has successfully completed the trial of drone technology to deliver medicines and vaccines in a time-bound manner. To deliver medicines to remote areas of the state, the unique initiative by the health department to provide vaccines to the beneficiaries living in remote districts of the state through information … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has developed an Information Technology tool to monitor and improve the health of rural Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The IT Tool, developed using open-source software, was deployed to gather detailed household-level annual health-related information. This IT Tool was also utilized … Read more
Mumbai: Shares of Information Technology (IT) companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro among others have weakened in the past week in the run-up to their fourth quarter results. TCS’s March quarter earnings announced after trading hours on Monday, which was in line with estimates, may ease worries about their prospects, … Read more
The government on Saturday said certain misgivings are being raised regarding Rule 16 under Part III of The Information Technology Rules, 2021 under which interim blocking directions may be issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a case of emergency nature but asserted this is not a new provision. “The Information Technology (Intermediary … Read more
New Delhi: India’s move to continue with a ban imposed last year on 59 Chinese apps is in violation of the principles of the World Trade Organisation and norms of market economy, a Chinese embassy spokesperson said on Wednesday. India banned 59 Chinese apps last June. In September, 118 more Chinese apps were blocked. “These … Read more
New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) is working to enhance contribution of digital economy to 20 per cent of GDP in the next five years, a senior official said on Tuesday. “We have the vision to take the digital part of the economy from currently 7-8 per cent of GDP to … Read more
New Delhi: Amid a political slugfest over the Facebook issue, the company’s India head Ajit Mohan on Wednesday appeared before a parliamentary panel, which is discussing alleged misuse of social media platforms. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, had called representatives of Facebook to hear their views … Read more