India’s biggest challenge to generate skilled manpower jobs: Macquarie report

India is among the few countries with a favourable structural growth story, but its biggest challenge will be to generate enough skilled manpower and jobs that will encourage a “virtuous

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India’s digital transformation

The country can only derive the digital dividend of faster growth, more jobs and better services by expanding affordable Internet access to all/ There is little doubt that China has

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Full potential of India’s tier II, III cities to unfold by 2020

India’s tier II and III cities are on the verge of a major change. Active deployment of Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) is less than a year in

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Nasscom plans 115 digital literacy centres this year

The Nasscom Foundation is planning to set up 115 more digital literacy centres across the country to take the total to 250 centres by the year-end. “We are working with

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Rural India to power internet users to 730 million by 2020, says report

New Delhi: India is expected to have 730 million internet users by 2020, with 75% of new user growth expected to come from rural areas, according to a report released

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Digital India: Take bandwidth for free Wi-Fi in villages: BSNL to Parliamentarians

NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is keen to offer Internet bandwidth to the Members of Parliament to digitally empower people in their constituencies through the Sansad Adarsh

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Digital India will be a $1-trillion business opportunity: Ravi Shankar Prasad

KOLKATA: Communications and IT  Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that Digital India will be a $1 trillion business opportunity, combining the requirements of the telecoms, IT/ITeS and electronics manufacturing sectors.

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Ravishankar Prasad urges small businesses to use digitalisation for growth

New Delhi, Aug 13 (KNN) Union Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has urged the small entrepreneurs to use digitalisation to grow their businesses further. He said that 25 new mobile

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Digital democracy is the essence of India: Ravi Shankar Prasad

NEW DELHI: Union information and technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that “digital democracy is the essence of India and MyGovIndia is the biggest platform that showcases it.”

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