The State of India’s Digital Economy (SIDE) Report measures and analyses India’s digital transformation using data, information and evidence that are specifically relevant to the Indian context. In this, the report departs from the norm for global studies. While global indicators go for breadth rather than depth by choosing the …
The telecom min April 21: The telecom minister A. Raja on Wednesday batted for the use of green energy for running telecom towers so that mobile services could be expanded in the rural areas.
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government is all set to come up with new regulations for setting up mobile towers in order to stop their haphazard growth in cities and towns, especially on high rise buildings. A government order (GR), consisting of the regulations, is learnt to be ready, and will be …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS PRESIDENTS of Sathuvachari near here have opposed the erection of mobile phone towers in their vicinity citing possible harmful electromagnetic radiation (EMR). While urging the district administration to ban the setting up of such towers in residential areas, they also demanded that the State government formulate …
PUDUCHERRY: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications is working on converting almost all cellphone towers into
The Himachal Pradesh government will conduct a multi-faceted scientific study to find out the reason of dwindling birds in the region, said to be affected by radiation from mobile towers in residential areas. "The study would ascertain impact of radiation from mobile towers on human, animals and environment," Additional Chief …
Social media are changing the world in which we work, socialise and govern, and in many different ways. From Twitter to eBay, Facebook to YouTube, new tools are emerging every year that place the connecting power of the internet in the hands of every one of us. Marketing and sales …
Ranchi, Feb. 17: Installation of cellphone towers without permission of proper authorities has been brought under the scanner of the Jharkhand High Court. Numerous mobile towers have been erected across the length and breadth of the city without adhering to the norms for personal gain by cellular companies has been …
Banker, housewife, engineer, pujari. They came from all walks of life, from across Maharashtra, and met up for the first time in a public meeting at Mumbai's Shivaji Park. They exchanged notes, bonded, and vowed to work together. Each of the 60 people gathered under the Mobile Tower Grievance Forum …
From paved roads that carry crops to market to modern grain silos that reduce postharvest losses, infrastructure is critical to achieving food security. But nothing is currently having a more profound effect on farmers in the developing world than telecommunications networks. In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, for instance, …
Putting to rest all speculations on immediate sealing of mobile phone towers in the capital and maintaining that the health hazards of cell towers have not been scientifically proved, the standing committee of the MCD on Tuesday gave one month's time to the cellular operators to adhere to the new …
Following the action taken by the Noida Authority against unauthorised cellphone towers in the area, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided that no such towers in the Capital will be sealed for the time being. The civic agency has also directed all operators who have installed unauthorised towers …
Giving nod to a liberalised policy for installation of mobile phone towers, the MCD on Monday said that those installed over roof tops of schools, hospitals and dispensaries in the city would be removed immediately, while those in areas like residential apartments and commercial places will continue to exist. The …
Mansi Taneja / New Delhi February 08, 2010, 0:30 IST Mobile handset manufacturers, as well as importers in India, would soon have to get their handsets tested for radiation before any launch across the country, if the recommendations of Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), the technical arm of the department of …
NETWORK services provider, GTL, is raising Rs 1,400 crore through non-convertible debentures to invest in green energy products and solutions for telecom infrastructure that can bring down costs for telecom operators. The NCDs offer a coupon rate of 8%. GTL will earn around Rs 1,100 crore during FY11 from these …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is finally through with its report on mobile towers, saying that they will be allowed only in the areas where people visit for a short time so that they may not be affected by radiations. According to the report, there are 700 illegal towers …
Unlike the spectacle lenses that control visible light, instruments like radars control radio waves or microwaves which are a much bigger part of the electromagnetic spectrum. A simple glass or plastic lens cannot do this as they are too large and heavy. Instead, materials engineered to collect the electromagnetic rays …
India’s Advertising Standards Council has pulled up 15 companies for running ad campaigns that violated the council’s codes. The guilty included Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular and fast moving consumer goods player Dabur and Elder Pharma. Reliance Communications will have to suspend a TV commercial as it failed to substantiate …
Statesman News Service KOLKATA, 28 JAN: The state health minister, Dr Surjya Kanta Mishra, said there is a need for uplinking telemedicine facilities with doctors of well known institutes in the country including All India Institute of Medical Sciences( AIIMS) to treat critical patients. He was speaking at a programme …
Bhopal: Telecom Companies and everyone associated with this sector know that cell tower radiation is day-by-day becoming a trouble but still all are overlooking this crisis. The only motivation behind overlooking is Money. These days we have seen at many places A building's roof has up to two or three …
