-PTI NEW DELHI: India has the fastest internet traffic growth globally and is expected to have 348 million users by 2017, a study by networking giant Cisco said. According to Cisco's Visuals Networking Index (VNI) forecast (2012-17), internet traffic in India will reach 2.5 exabytes per month in 2017, up from 393 petabytes per month in 2012. One exabyte equals 1 million terabytes. "In India, there will be 348 million internet users in...
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Dayamani Barla, tribal activist from Jharkhand interviewed by G Vishnu
-Tehelka.com There are few figures from the adivasi community in India who have made a bigger dent in the collective imagination of the country than Dayamani Barla. The "iron lady of Jharkhand" has been instrumental in articulating adivasi struggles against displacement and deprivation on national and international platforms. Dayamani, who was recently imprisoned in Jharkhand for her involvement in the Nagri people's movement, has won the first Ellen L Lutz Indigenous...
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-The Business Standard Govt should streamline its free medicines plan The Centre is reportedly going to shelve a plan to procure generic drugs for free supply to patients throughout the country. This is a serious error. Reportedly, states will instead be asked to do so; but, if a perceived inability to procure, stock and distribute these drugs is the reason for backtracking on the plan, how precisely will states be free of...
More »Blind boy blazes trail, scores 95% in science-Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: KartikSawhney had to wage a battle before being allowed to study science in class XI. The CBSE was not convinced Kartik, who is completely blind, would be able to handle the 'visual inputs' - graphs, diagrams, models - required for science. The doubters got their answer on Monday. Kartik scored a 95% aggregate in science with computers in class XII. The DPS, R K Puram, student...
More »Aadhaar to help eradicate poverty, says World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim
-PTI WASHINGTON: Describing Aadhaar card as one of the best example of integration of technology for social welfare use, the World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, believes that this massive effort by the Indian Government would help in achieving his goal of poverty eradication by 2030. "On a larger scale we've got to think about how we can integrate this technology into a massive effort to scale up access to financial...
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