-The Times of India NOIDA: A 13-year-old student of a city school has developed a website to promote easy carpooling among commuters. At a time when commuters have voiced concerns over the forthcoming rule on odd and even numbered cars plying on alternate days on Delhi roads, Akshat Mittal, a student of Class VIII in Amity International School Noida, Sector 44, said his website, odd-even.com, would prove extremely useful. Users simply need to...
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Cheaper data tariff driving rural boom in internet usage, says govt -M Rajendran
-Hindustan Times Declining data cost is boosting data traffic and internet usage in India and will take rural users to 87 million by December-end and 106 million by end-March 2016, a study by the communications ministry says. India has overtaken US and is behind only China on internet usage, and the government expects user-base to hit 450 million by next year-end. “Our studies have shown that the growth of e-commerce activities and government-to-citizen online...
More »India needs to improve the right to freedom of online expression: report -Vidhi Choudhary
-Livemint.com The report, titled Limited Access Restricting Expression also makes a case for expansion of quality Internet access and last mile connectivity in both urban and rural India New Delhi: India needs to improve the right to freedom of online expression, according to recommendations of a report by the Digital Empowerment Foundation. The report, titled Limited Access Restricting Expression, and released on Thursday, also makes a case for expansion of quality Internet...
More »UP shows way in direct subsidy payment to farmers -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Uttar Pradesh farmers have taken well to direct benefit transfers, though there are doubts if it can be extended to fertilisers. Akhilesh Yadav’s government in Uttar Pradesh is turning out to be a pacesetter in implementation of direct benefit transfers (DBT) to farmers. Farmers in UP got Rs 28.60 per quintal from the state government for the sugarcane they supplied to mills during the 2014-15 crushing season. The payments, totalling...
More »To check pollution, Delhi govt announces curbs on plying of private vehicles -Mayura Janwalkar
-The Indian Express New Delhi: In a bid to curb rising pollution, the Delhi government on Friday decided that odd and even number vehicles will ply on alternate days in the capital from January 1, official sources said. In the first major green intervention by the executive which could become a template for other cities in the country, the Delhi government announced Friday a slew of measures starting January 1 to bring...
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