Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday dedicated to the nation, the submarine optical fibre cable (OFC) connecting Andaman & Nicobar Islands to the mainland through video conferencing. The prime minister had laid the foundation stone for this project on December 30, 2018, at Port Blair.

The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corp. (IRCTC) and SBI Card have launched their new co-branded contactless credit card on the RuPay platform.

Internet search giant Google has announced an investment of $10 billion in India through the India Digitisation Fund. India-born, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai made this announcement at the ‘Google for India’ event that was streamed live on Monday.

India’s largest data centre building, Yotta NM1, the largest Tier-IV data centre, certified by Uptime Institute in Asia, and the second-largest in the world was inaugurated in the virtual presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Govt. of India, Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister, Maharashtra and Subhash Desai, Minister of Industries and Mining, Govt. of Maharashtra.

The artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled MyGov Corona Helpdesk bagged two awards under the categories ‘Best Innovation for COVID-19 – Society’ and ‘People’s Choice COVID-19 Overall Winner’, at the recently held CogX 2020, which is a prestigious Global Leadership Summit and Festival of AI & Emerging Technology held annually in London.

Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd, the power utility supplying electricity to a populace of 7 million in North and North-West Delhi, has successfully promoted a cashless system of payments among its consumers during the period of the nationwide lockdown and social distancing.

The Rs 20 trillion economic revival package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the most substantial in the world. Of the five pillars identified by Modi to support the edifice of a New India, infrastructure occupies the second place.

COVID-19 might have put the world in a miserable spot, but optimists have already spotted light even when the tunnel is yet to be crossed.

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has permitted companies to hold their annual general meeting (AGMs) through video conferencing (VC) or other audio-visual means (OAVMs) during the calendar year 2020.