Technology

Do you enjoy shopping online? Are you swiping your debit/credit card on random e-commerce mobile apps/websites for grocery, fruits and vegetables, frozen food, shoes, clothes, perfume, jewellery, gym wear, pet food and 2/4-wheeler accessories? This is an age of online shopping where almost everything starting with needle and thread to appliances and gadgets and...

Government of Madhya Pradesh in collaboration with international non-profit organisation United Nations Population Fund India (UNFPA) has come up with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbot to share accurate information on social issues and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among teenagers and young adults. The chatbot has been named 'Just Ask' or 'Khulke...

In a joint initiative, the Delhi High Court and Delhi Police have launched a series of interactive videos to educate minors about cyber safety, how to ensure their privacy is maintained and how to prevent themselves from falling prey to cyber bullying, stalking, sexting and other kinds of online frauds targeting this age group. Educating...

Now residents from any remote corner of the country can track and even recover their lost or stolen mobile phones, all thanks to the latest initiative by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. The Government’s ‘Sanchar Saathi’, an integrated citizen-centric online portal which helps to track lost mobile phones, will be expanding its...

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has received the first set of SWITCH EiV 22 double-decker buses from manufacturing company Switch Mobility Ltd. These state-of-the-art e electric air-conditioned buses are also carbon-neutral. Sharing his excitement over the same, Ashok Leyland Executive Chairman Dheeraj Hinduja tweeted Monday evening, “It is yet another milestone achievement for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mumbai to inaugurate Metro Rail Lines 2A & 7 worth around Rs 12,600 crores on Thursday. The Prime Minister enjoyed a metro rail ride and interacted with youngsters inside the train. The metro line 2A connecting Dahisar E and DN Nagar (yellow line) is around 18.6 Km long, while metro...

National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) is a campaign that aims to digitally educate at least one member of every family in rural areas. From 2014 to 2016, two Schemes titled ‘National Digital Literacy Mission’ (NDLM) and ‘Digital Saksharta Abhiyan’ (DISHA) were implemented by the Government of India with a target to train 52.50 lakh...

We all have those old phones or laptops collecting dust in our homes, but why? The average person replaces their mobile phone every 2-3 years, but what do they do with their old phones? Although consumers are updating their tech on a continual basis, which generates more than 50m tonnes of e-waste globally, only 20%...

The State administration of Odisha encouraged the Center to design a framework for institutionalising proactive engagement in the growth of the scientific and technology ecosystem across all the States. Science and Technology Minister Ashok Panda stressed the importance of fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and research and development in order to improve the State's STI ecosystems...

Problems make for a compelling drama in a movie, but in real life, they can be a  nuisance. This is even truer in the case of a business. Let’s say you decided to run a bus service. Now, if your bus runs into an accident, you are left with some heavy financial damage. If...

Today, the transparency of companies' environmental, economic, and social criteria is crucial for customers, investors, and other stakeholders. Because of this, businesses spend a lot of effort defining a way to consistently and efficiently collect and share non-financial data. Digital technologies help with such tasks and offer various solutions. Technological innovations make it possible...