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The Union Government in Department of Information Technology has embarked on introduction of Cloud computing (shared platform), the latest IT marvel, in National e-Governance regimen for quick implementation and roll out of citizen centric e-Governance services, notwithstanding the fact that National e-Governance Division in the IT Department is not aware of the suitability of applicability of cloud computing for e-Governance.

New Delhi: Expectations have peaked to high levels about normalizations of trade relations between India and Pakistan as the commerce secretaries of the two countries began their sixth round of two-day talks here on Monday.

New Delhi: India has made a significant contribution to vaccine development. Its market size is now valued at $ 900 million.

New Delhi: The US has apologised to the former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam for subjecting him to frisking at New York's JFK Airport, an incident that had provoked sharp reactions from the people of India forcing the Government to seek clarification.

BHOPAL: While the Congress has initiated a number of steps to expose, what it calls the ‘misdeeds’ of the BJP-led MP government, a major scandal, involving bigwigs of the government, has hit the headlines in a section of the media.

NEW DELHI: India is taking a big interest in linking South Asia to Central Asia and this has assumed importance to India both for political and economic reasons. The latest summit of SAARC members at Addu in Maldives on November 11 and 12 underlined the supreme need for regional economic cooperation between the South Asian countries and the focus was on better connectivity and transit routes.

New Delhi: India has contributed $ 200,000 to the Paris Pact Initiative, a global programme under United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for control of narcotic drugs.

What exactly is Tobin Tax? Legendary businessman turned philanthropist, Bill Gates, as well as the head of Britain’s Anglican church, Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, have urged for imposition of the Tobin Tax. On the other hand, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has opposed the idea of such a tax at the last meeting of G20 in Cannes in France.

LUCKNOW: Excitement is running high among the Congress masses in Uttar Pradesh over whether Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be taking the final plunge in politics through her active campaigning in the coming assembly elections in the state. There is a big craze among the younger sections in the state for Priyanka and the veteran Congress members also feel that this daughter of Rajiv Gandhi has shades of Indira Gandhi’s character and she will be a hit with the electorate.

New York: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said today he is following the electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with “utmost vigilance,” stating that violence related to the presidential and legislative polls later this month will not be tolerated.