The online filing of income tax returns could touch one crore-mark in the current financial year from 55 lakh in the last fiscal with the government making it mandatory for certain professionals and business entities as well apart from corporates. The finance ministry said that professionals, including doctors, lawyers and chartered accountants, earning over Rs 10 lakh annually w
IT@School project, an initiative by Kerala government to impart IT education in schools, has developed a Resource DVD, to be distributed among 60,000 high school teachers in the state. The Resource DVD, considered to be first of its kind in India, will ensure a complete Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled educational system, IT@School Project Executive Director
India`s software major Infosys, whose tech-savy employees are active in various social networking sites, plans to roll out a media policy enlisting the do`s and don`ts for them while interacting on such sites. "We plan to roll out a social media policy shortly," Senior Vice-President and Global Head, Human Resources (Infosys), Nandita Gurjar said here today.
The percentage of employees visiting social networking sites at the workplace globally rose to 24 per cent this year from just 18 per cent in 2008, even as more companies are restricting access to such websites, a survey said. According to a survey by global Internet content security provider Trend Micro, employees are finding ways around security roadblocks to make social networ
Tihar Jail inmates may now be a `touch` away from information about their stay in prison and other necessary personal details for which they had to go through lengthy official procedures. Tihar Prison authorities are planning to introduce the touch screen facility wherein a big computer screen will display all the information a prisoner wants to know about himself during the cour
Taking a strong exception to some private telecom operators disguising international calls on their networks as local ones, causing a revenue loss to the government, the Supreme Court today said such firms should not be allowed to go free just by payment of some fine. Hearing a petition by BSNL against Reliance Communication (RCOM), the court said this is a serious matter and one
A digital archive has been developed on social and religious reformer Vidyadhiraja Chattampi Swami (1853-1924), who deeply influenced transformation of the caste-ridden Kerala into a progressive society in the early 20th century. The archive, being developed at the Centre for South Indian Studies (CSIS), plans to put on cyberspace nearly 20,000 printed pages on the Swami.
Terming the functioning of COAI, a powerful lobby of GSM operators, as "undemocratic, biased, non-transparent and unethical", Tata Teleservices (TTSL) today resigned from the core membership of the association. "We have found that COAI is not a transparent association and represents the views of only a few selected old players, as all powers/rights are vested in th
The telecom services industry posted a meagre growth rate of 2.5 per cent in revenues at Rs 1,59,510 crore in 2009-10 due to intense domestic tariff war, says a survey by telecom industry journal Voice & Data. The industry had seen a robust growth of 20 per cent in revenues at Rs 1,55,683 crore in 2008-09. The survey said these telecom services revenue include
The government yesterday did tough talking with the mobile operators on apparently not doing due diligence on subscriber verification in Jammu and Kashmir and warned them that their services may be closed in case of non-compliance of guidelines. Home Secretary G K Pillai met the CEOs and MDs of seven telecom firms -- Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, RCom, Idea, Vodafone
Claiming that BSNL services were unsatisfactory in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP today demanded a CBI probe to find whether its officials were in nexus with private mobile service providers in the state. "There seems to be a nexus between the higher officials of BSNL and private operators of mobile services in J&K as BSNL was providing poor services to its customers in the
Professionals, including doctors, lawyers and chartered accountants, earning over Rs 10 lakh annually will be required to file income tax returns electronically, the finance ministry said yesterday. Besides, all business entities and Hindu undivided families (HUFs) with a business income of over Rs 40 lakh per annum will also be required to mandatorily file income tax returns in
Social networking website Facebook today introduced a new Internet safety application which will allow British teenagers to report suspicious or inappropriate online behaviour. The "panic button", which was launched after months of negotiations between the website and Britain`s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), is aimed at young children who can re
It will take another 10 days before Internet connectivity between India and Africa is restored, as complicated repairs on the Seacom undersea cable linking the two countries is taking longer than anticipated. Seacom had earlier announced that the breakdown last Monday would be repaired within a week. However, Seacom now says there will be a further delay due to fac
After proposing a salary hike for MPs, a Parliamentary Committee has recommended providing 3G facility, the advanced mobile telephony, to members. The issue of providing 3G facility to MPs was considered by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of MPs, the Lok Sabha secretariat has said. The charges towards the 3G package as well as additional usage of fac
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today launched the Facebook and Twitter account of Home Minister R R Patil. Patil`s twitter handle would be "aabapatil" as the Home Minister is affectionately called "aaba". In the first tweet, Patil thanked the Chief Minister for inaugurating his Twitter account.
The principal of the city-based Jesus and Mary school, which suspended six of its students for a week for allegedly using `abusive` language on the social networking site Facebook, today declined to comment on the issue. When contacted by PTI, newly-appointed principal of the school, Sister Mary, said a report over the issue had been submitted to the district education authoritie
Market leader Bharti Airtel today cautioned that 3G mobile services will not come cheap, especially for subscribers in metros, as service providers had to pay dearly for spectrum. "Take the example of Delhi itself, or Mumbai. The amount for spectrum that has been charged is close to Rs 3,500 crore each... Just to recover license fees and input cost, it works out to be Rs 700
The research arm of the telecom ministry, C-DOT, today said it will deploy a solution for BSNL that will allow the state-run telco to share its active telecom infrastructure with private operators in rural areas. C-DOT, has developed a solution called --shared GSM radio active network (SG RAN) -- which will allow BSNL to share its infrastructure in rural areas with up to three pr
Six months after taking over as BJP president, Nitin Gadkari today appointed convenors of three party cells, with sources saying heads of other cells and distribution of responsibility to office-bearers would be announced soon. Gadkari, who has drawn flak from the media and murmurs of protest from the party cadre for not announcing his team even six months after taking over, toda
