Month: November 2017

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind has launched the Bihar Krishi Road Map 2017-2022 in Patna yesterday.  The President stated that the centenary year of the Champaran Satyagraha is being commemorated from April 2017. As such this was the best time to introduce the new ‘Agricultural Road Map’ in the interests of farmers. Mahatma Gandhi had emphasized through the Satyagraha that farmers are at the centre of Indian life and policy making. And this remains true even today.   Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the Government…

The cyber security concern is being raised with govt’s decision to link vital Aadhaar number to bank accounts, income tax and mobile phones could trigger a wave of internet financial crimes in the country. Cyber crime is rapidly rising and experts warn it is reaching epidemic levels as criminals use the Internet as a tool for a multitude of fraudulent activities.   This is discussed in a conference on ‘Cyber Crime and Data Protection, Challenges’ organised by the Indian National Bar Association (INBA) at Indian Law Institute in New Delhi. In…

Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh has inaugurated the three-day Organic World Congress – 2017 which is being organized at India Expo Centre in Greater Noida. The International Federation of Organic Farming Movements (IFOAM) and OAFI are organizing the event where 55 seeds group from 15 Indian states will showcase 4,000 varieties of seeds.Thsi will see the participation of 1,400 representatives from 110 countries, and 2000 delegates from India.   The Organic World Congress (OWC) is organized once every three years in a different country and…

As part of the series of Road to GES events, in the run up to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, NITI Aayog along with Proffer, a block-chain startup founded by graduates of MIT and Harvard, are organizing a Blockchain summit and hackathon at IIT Delhi from Nov 10-13, 2017.   The objective of the event is to explore how blockchain architectures can enable a new digital infrastructure for India, improving efficiency, transparency, privacy, and cost across all sectors.   In the upcoming event 1,500+ students from different universities such as  from IITs, MIT, Harvard,…

North Korea was behind the “WannaCry” cyber attack in May that disrupted businesses and government services worldwide, including the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Security Minister Ben Wallace said Britain believed “quite strongly” that the ransomware attack came from a foreign state. WannaCry infected more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries in a matter of days, demanding victims pay ransoms starting at $300 to regain access to their machines. As the tension between North Korea and the US continues to grow, the possibility of war is rapidly evolving into…