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1146 days ago
Hilarious Stuff in the last paragraph highlighted "Siddharth Kalhans / M V R RAO -Indian Express Posted online: Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST LUCKNOW, MEERUT, OCTOBER 11 While a mercy petition for Afzal Guru, the man convicted to hang for the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament, is pending with the President, the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Prisons has set in motion the official process to nominate Mamu, a hangman from Meerut, for the job. Mamu is the son of hangman Kallu who hanged Indira Gandhi's assassins Kehar Singh and Satwant Singh and Ranga and Billa, convicted for the killing of the Chopra children. Confirming this, State Senior Superintendent of Prisons Suresh Chandra said that Mamu has been asked to be prepared to reach Tihar Jail any time now. "Mamu has been appointed the jallad to hang Afzal in Tihar," Chandra told The Indian Express today, "and the official communication has been despatched to ...
1164 days ago
Global Continuity reports that "Only half of organizations in India employ the basics such as user passwords, compared with 73 per cent in the rest of the world, according to "Global State of Information Security 2006", a worldwide study by CIO magazine, CSO magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The study says 50 percent admit more than half their users are not in compliance with their information."
1167 days ago
UN Alliance on Closing Digital Divide Meets Next Week UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will open the first-ever meeting at the United Nations of the newly formed Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) on September 27. Chairing discussion of Alliance strategic goals will be Intel board chairman Craig Barrett.
1167 days ago
India does well in bridging digital divide .According to LIRNEasia, India was ranked 119 among 180 countries in the global digital opportunity index (DOI). The DOI - which was decided upon by stakeholders participating in the 2nd World Summit on Information Society held in Tunisia last year - identified 11 indicators across three broad categories such as opportunity, infrastructure and utilisation as yardsticks for the ranking exercise. However, based on historical data gathered for 2001-2005, India ranked first in terms of being able to bridge the domestic digital divide. While India did well on this score, the country performed poorly as the lack of competition in the fixed telephony sector impacted the rollout of basic infrastructure and Internet access. New Zealand's State Services Commission wants to procure new hardware and software for its e-government initiative. The system to replace is just 3 years old.
