Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Centre to connect startups with govt ecosystem, has real plan on chip shortage: Minister

May 22, 2022 11:27 pm

Chandrasekhar  said,  “Soon Digital India Startup Hub, an institutional framework, shall be established to promote startup ecosystem and to centrally coordinate initiatives.

Govt wants to keep internet open, safe & accountable: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

May 21, 2022 5:44 pm

During the MSME event organised by NASSCOM, the Union minister inaugurated the “world’s first Smart Manufacturing Competency Centre” in Ahmedabad to help accelerate the adoption of smart manufacturing by India’s best innovators.

Delhi Confidential: Healing Touch

May 10, 2022 9:44 pm

During his three-day visit to the state, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar visited the district where he announced that he has come there as “PM Narendra Modi's representative” and as their “colleague, partner and friend in New Delhi”.

Union minister visits Bengaluru lakes, talks to experts to restore waterbodies

April 13, 2022 12:32 pm

Chandrasekhar said that he fought for eight years to recover the Mestripalaya lake by wresting it from encroachers and informed that the development of the lake is in its final phase.

IT ministry sets up 17-member committee to steer, guide semiconductor mission

April 07, 2022 6:22 am

The Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw will be the chairperson of the committee, while Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be the vice-chairperson.

No intention to make social media users’ verification a must: Govt

March 31, 2022 2:57 am

Rajeev Chandrasekhar: ‘Need to relook laws to de-risk Indian internet, make it difficult for Big Tech to be weaponised’

March 28, 2022 12:30 pm

'We must first create a national data governance framework, establish some principles of law, define the role of these intermediaries and what should be the nature of the relationship between the intermediaries and the user.'

Rajeev Chandrasekhar: ‘Big Tech weaponised internet amid conflict, presiding over splinter-net’

March 28, 2022 5:30 am

Amid the continued “weaponisation” of the internet by some Big Tech platforms during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict bringing back the focus on the sweeping powers of social media platforms, India is readying a new cybersecurity and data governance framework.

‘Don’t want to be just fuel for global IT cos, want IPR, platforms in India’

February 28, 2022 2:02 pm

Diversification, especially in the electronics manufacturing segment, provides India with a unique opportunity that must be capitalised on, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.

MoS IT: Rules soon to put onus of cybercrime reporting on companies

February 24, 2022 7:39 am

Talking about the recent cyber threats that the country had faced, Chandrasekhar said that India faced a million cybersecurity incidents in the recent times.