Full coverage: India

31.03.2006 A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.

30.03.2006 India has sent the maximum number of entries at the Stockholm Challenge 2006 competition that honours innovative ways of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve people's lives.

29.03.2006 Contrary to popular perception, information technology has a far greater impact in rural areas than urban centres. A recent survey of 37 e-governance projects, spread across 11 states accorded an overall rating of 8.67 to rural e-governance projects against 8.03 to urban projects

29.03.2006 Despite all the hullabaloo about India's prowess in IT and sky-rocketing telecom subscriptions, the country still figured at the bottom rung (rank 40) in the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006.

29.03.2006 Healthcare is an information intensive industry. Being an information-based industry, it can benefit from IT more than perhaps any other industry.

29.03.2006 VSNL and Sify will run the RailTel express cybercafes to be set up at 82 railway stations in the current year.

29.03.2006 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has decided to move the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of IndiaÂ’s (Trai) order reducing its share of access deficit charges (ADC) by 33% this fiscal.

28.03.2006 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, a public sector Indian telecom company, is indeed going where no other telecom operator has gone before. In a bid to lay a cellular network covering the entire population in the country, the state-owned company is leaving no stone unturned.

24.03.2006 Last week HP India unveiled a revolutionary pen-based technology that allows the (Indian language) Kannada script to be recorded and stored directly on a computer.

24.03.2006 TRAI had been receiving complaints on billing related matters. These complaints cover areas such as inability to verify the bills, not having clarity about the tariff scheme on which they are being billed, delay in refund, non-adjustment of credits in the bills, etc.

23.03.2006 Imagine indigenous technology in the form of microprocessor devices coming to the rescue of Indian Railways in averting major train collisions, thus saving precious human life and ensuring safety.

23.03.2006 Namma Dhwani has gained a reputation of being perhaps the only community radio station in India to cablecast programs made by the community on a daily basis.

23.03.2006 IndiaÂ’s VSNL has selected Aperto Networks, developer of advanced WiMAX base stations, for the rollout of the carrierÂ’s multi-service broadband wireless systems in over 65 cities across the country.

23.03.2006 Telecom regulator Trai has said that phone firms will have to provide lifetime incoming schemes till the time they continue to operate the services.

13.03.2006 For a country with a population of a hundred crore plus, India has only 4.26 crore taxpayers.

10.03.2006 The Government on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that steps had been taken to mask some areas of the imagery from Google Earth website that were causing concerns.

10.03.2006 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working towards developing a system under which warnings about natural disasters will directly reach homes through television channels.

10.03.2006 President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam today called for greater co-operation in the fields of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) between India and Myanmar.

09.03.2006 The Kashmir Education Foundation (KEF), a non-government organisation, has launched a Rs 30 million project for rural children offering them advanced coaching facilities.

08.03.2006 UNESCO held a workshop to teach south Asian community media producers the novel technique of creating audio visual content through digital multimedia formats. The workshop was held in Kolar District, Karnataka State in South India, close to the Namma Dhwani cable community media centre, one of IndiaÂ’s first community radio stations.