Mumbai: The human teller machines are creating a revolution in rural India. A group of business corespondents with a laptop, wireless modem and fingerprint scanner open accounts, take deposits and process money transaction for the poor farmers and migrants in the state.

Mumbai: The first multi-lingual portal has been launched by the Research and Development Organization, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), under the department of Information Technology (DIT) and Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) in Mumbai.

Pune: For the first time in the country, scientists are developing an earth system model (ESM) to generate projections of monsoon climate from seasonal, inter-annual, decadal, centennial and longer time-scales.

New Delhi: More than 37,000 villages are yet to get mobile connectivity according to the 2011 census, informed Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora in the Parliament.

New Delhi: The payments and banking transactions through mobile phones in India are expected to touch $350 billion (Rs. 15.65 lakh crore) by 2015, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.

New Delhi: Shantanu Gangwar is a 17 year old Class 12 student of Delhi Public School, RK Puram developed a smart walking stick for visually impaired.

Gurgaon: In a new initiative, a programme on community radio with mobile phones was launched in more than 45 government and NGO run schools in Gurgaon.

Bhubaneswar: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will provide 14.32 MW power to 118 villages located within 5 km radius of its two plants at Kaniha and Talcher in Orissa.