Use and acceptance of local scripts on the Internet, will help entire local communities join the online marketplace, says Samiran Gupta, Head of India for ICANN.
Category: Technology
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Net Result
The hype and fanfare that has accompanied Digital India, has managed to catch the imagination of people unlike any other initiative of recent times by the federal government.
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Govt asks TRAI for comprehensive paper on Net neutrality
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is coming up with a comprehensive paper on Net neutrality, which will define what it is and its key principles. The regulator will make its recommendations to the government soon.
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India´s Achilles heel is lack of spectrum
It is not unusual among developing countries, to find that Internet usage lags behind mobile take-up. India suffers in the sense that, as a huge country with significant usage of local languages, it relies primarily on terrestrial networks for delivery of service, which tend to be more expensive to provide than submarine networks.
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Technology should have a social and economic impact
The government is planning to take the National Fibre Optic Network to 250,000 village panchayats. Overall there are 650,000 villages, the last-mile connectivity being the ultimate challenge. We have suggested the White-Fi technology, which basically uses the unused TV spectrum and enables various kinds of devices to be connected to the Internet.
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Bentley Systems Issues Call for Submissions to 2016 Awards
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, announced its call for submissions to the 2016 Be Inspired Awards programme in New Delhi, early May.
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We are not asset owners. We are not bankers. We are operators
Formerly known as Vivendi Environment, the France-based transnational firm Veolia Environment is active in water, waste solutions and energy services businesses. Founded in 1853, it is present in around fifty countries.
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Inter-modality is one of the key components of our approach
The cooperation between IR and French Railways is on two fronts currently. One is the semi high-speed passenger train service between Delhi and Chandigarh. The second is the renovation study of two stations also between Delhi and Chandigarh - the stations at Ambala and Ludhiana.
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The need for speed
India is the third largest pre-engineered building (PEB) market in the world after the US and China. With a market size of about half a million metric tonne and a growth rate of 8-10 per cent, according to industry estimates, however, the growth hasn't been a pervasive one.
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Herrenknecht has a wide and long experience as well as a lot of references in India
Tunnels play a key role in many projects, because they are very often key components on routes. Modern tunnel boring machines and construction technologies make it possible to build routes that run very close to ideal lines, bringing a real breakthrough for routes that would have been inconceivable in earlier times.