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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which is part of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been requested by the Union Health Ministry to investigate a reported attempt to hack into its website, allegedly by a Russian hacker group. According to CloudSEK’s cyber security experts, the Russian hacker group “Phoenix” targeted the …

Union Health Ministry approaches CERT-In over an attempt to hack its website Read More »

The Union government will bring a new bill into the lower house of parliament on Wednesday that will upgrade the authority of the officer-in-command or commander-in-chief of inter-services organisations. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will introduce the Inter-Services Organizations (Command, Control and Discipline) Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha, according to official sources. The bill aims …

Inter-Services Organizations Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha as Centre seeks to upgrade the commander in chief’s powers Read More »

Hollywood has produced a number of films with cyborgs and robots that are trained to wage war, destroy, and kill. On Indian beaches, though, we might soon see robots with cutting-edge Intelligence that are intended to save lives. Goa is the first state in India to add a self-driving robot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) …

AI powered Robots and monitoring systems to save lives on India’s beaches Read More »

In the past, India’s power supply systems have been targeted by RedEcho, a cyberhacker group with links to China. According to a NYT report, groups associated with China are to held responsible for the Mumbai outage that occurred in October 2021. Power grids and other power installations have frequently been targeted by hackers on a …

Centre plans on developing a smart power system that can withstand cyberattacks and is digitally controlled Read More »

Three IoT sensor-based products, including a “Smart Digital Thermometer,” an “IoT enabled Environmental Monitoring System,” and a “Multichannel Data Acquisition System,” were unveiled by the Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Alkesh Kumar Sharma. At the same function, the Multichannel data Acquisition System’s technology transfer to Murata Business Engineering India was also …

MeitY Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma launched IoT sensor products developed at C-MET Thrissur Read More »

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the minister of state for electronics and IT, stated that the government expects approving up to two applications this year to begin building electronic chip manufacturing facilities in the country. According to the minister, the current slowdown in the electronic chip industry won’t have any effect on India’s semiconductor programme because it is cyclical …

Govt. plans to approve two new microchip factories this year Read More »

On March 1, the Madhya Pradesh government will introduce an electronic budget for the first time in the state assembly. MLAs will receive tabs to read the proposals and department schemes rather than hard copies of the budget. The copies of the 2019 budget were given to MLAs along with pen drives. The state budget’s …

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Former Commerce Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has been named the new chief executive officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog for a two-year term by the government. As Parameswaran Iyer joins the World Bank as an executive director in Washington, DC, Subrahmanyam will succeed him as CEO. In September 2022, Subrahmanyam—a Chhattisgarh cadre IAS from the 1987 batch—retired …

BVR Subrahmanyam is appointed as the new CEO of NITI Aayog Read More »

The milestone of 10 crore teleconsultations on the eSanjeevani app has been lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister tweeted in response to a tweet from Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare: ““10,00,00,000 tele-consultations is a remarkable feat. I laud all those doctors who are at the forefront of …

PM Modi hails the milestone of 10 crore teleconsultations on the eSanjeevani app Read More »

Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, N. Chandrasekaran, the Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, Campbell Wilson, the CEO of Air India, and Guillaume Faury, the CEO of Airbus joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video conference on Tuesday to mark the launch of a …

PM Modi joins France President in a video call to announce the launch of a new partnership between Air India and Airbus Read More »