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Aashish Aryan
Aashish Aryan is a Principal Correspondent With The Indian Express. He tweets @cubscribe
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Abhijit Kamra, Director of Global Trade, Amazon: ‘Mission is to help transform buying & selling; look forward to engaging with ONDC’Subscriber Only
May 09, 2022 04:09 IST
"We are on track this year to hit $5 billion cumulative exports from India. In 2020, when Jeff Bezos was here, we had taken a pledge of $10 billion by 2025 and are now doubling it to $20 billion in the same time frame.”
Mon, May 09, 2022
Explained: Why VPN providers believe new rules will undermine users’ privacySubscriber Only
May 07, 2022 15:35 IST
Citing objectives such as fighting cybercrime and invoking India’s sovereignty, integrity and public order, an April 26 directive from Cert-In, a wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, mandated that virtual private network (VPN) providers should keep for five years data including users’ contact details, original and faux IP addresses, and their purpose behind using the services.
Sat, May 07, 2022
Tax reassessment: I-T has 30 days to send noticesSubscriber Only
May 06, 2022 04:00 IST
According to the top court’s judgment, the assessing officer will, within 30 days from May 4, provide the respective assesses the information and all relevant material which was relied upon to send the income tax recovery notice to them.
Tue, May 31, 2022
With competing claims for funds, DoT not in favour of tariff subsidySubscriber Only
May 04, 2022 02:42 IST
All the three private telecom players as well as industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) have repeatedly raised the demand for a floor price on telecom tariff which would help them improve their average revenue per user.
Wed, May 04, 2022
‘106 net shutdowns in India in 2021’Subscriber Only
April 29, 2022 04:01 IST
There were at least 182 documented internet shutdowns during 2021in 34 countries, as against 159 documented across 29 nations in 2020, as per the report.
Fri, Apr 29, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter: How his free speech argument could play out in IndiaSubscriber Only
April 26, 2022 12:37 IST
Elon Musk's idea of defeating bots and providing every human-operated Twitter account with a verification badge may also prove to be an onerous task -- fake followers and spam is a challenge that the platform has struggled with for years.
Thu, Apr 28, 2022
BharatNet PPP: As incentive, DoT to assume revenue riskSubscriber Only
April 25, 2022 05:18 IST
Officials said that the companies bidding for the second round will only have to bring in the capital expenditure and operational expenses for the project without worrying about the fluctuations associated with the revenue.
Mon, Apr 25, 2022
DoT plan for foreign companies: Easing investment, spectrum bid normsSubscriber Only
April 24, 2022 05:06 IST
The DoT may not go for further cut in licence fee and other statutory fees, an official said, adding that the number of telecom users in India is far more than most other geographies
Sun, Apr 24, 2022
‘Meta has not cracked all of metaverse; want to help others build compelling use-cases’Subscriber Only
April 17, 2022 05:03 IST
Ajit Mohan, the Vice President & Managing Director, India, Meta, says: 'I don’t think we’re a media company. I think we partner with other media companies, and hopefully they’ve seen value in leveraging our platforms'
Mon, Apr 18, 2022
Explained: Industry concerns on TRAI 5G recommendationsSubscriber Only
April 14, 2022 04:00 IST
What are the recommendations made by TRAI with respect to 5G spectrum? What concerns has industry raised?
Thu, Apr 14, 2022
As buyers shifted online, so did cos: D2C firms top advertisers on FBSubscriber Only
April 12, 2022 23:37 IST
For the financial year 2020-21, Meta Inc-owned Facebook India Online Services had reported a 41 per cent year-on-year increase in gross advertisement revenue at Rs 9,326 crore.
Tue, Apr 12, 2022
Red flags over PLI scheme, NITI plans to monitor performanceSubscriber Only
April 10, 2022 04:00 IST
Taking the lead in creating a centralised database to monitor progress in the PLI schemes across sectors, the NITI Aayog plans to rope in an external agency – state-owned IFCI Ltd or Sidbi – to design and prepare the database.
Sun, Apr 10, 2022
Explained: The common complaints about Aadhaar, which CAG has now flagged in UIDAI auditSubscriber Only
April 07, 2022 13:30 IST
There are issues of data-matching, errors in authentication, and shortfall in archiving, the CAG has said in its 108-page audit report on the functioning of the UIDAI.
Sat, Apr 09, 2022
End-to-end encryption: Meta says will step up transparency, screeningSubscriber Only
April 06, 2022 03:50 IST
Meta has agreed to completely implement 34 of the 45 recommendations made by independent organisation Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) as a part of its Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report on end-to-end encryption in messaging and social media platforms.
Tue, Apr 26, 2022
Explained: As Elon Musk joins Twitter board, what changes can be expected?Subscriber Only
April 05, 2022 19:30 IST
The 9.2 per cent stake, worth nearly $3 billion, makes Elon Musk the biggest shareholder of Twitter, more than the 8.8 per cent stake held by the Vanguard Group, 8.4 per cent held by Morgan Stanley, and 2.2 per cent stake held by the company's co-founder Jack Dorsey.
Wed, Apr 06, 2022
BharatNet likely to miss deadline as shifting goalposts slow roll outSubscriber Only
April 04, 2022 04:10 IST
Consider this: as of February 2022, only about 1.72 lakh of the initially targeted 2.5 lakh gram panchayats had been connected to the central grid under BharatNet.
Mon, Apr 04, 2022
Proposal to widen hardware PLI ambit sent to secretaries’ panelSubscriber Only
March 29, 2022 05:30 IST
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has sent a proposal to the empowered group of secretaries to include more electronic products under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for hardware, sources said.
Tue, Mar 29, 2022
Rajeev Chandrasekhar: ‘Need to relook laws to de-risk Indian internet, make it difficult for Big Tech to be weaponised’Subscriber Only
March 28, 2022 05:32 IST
'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.'
Mon, Mar 28, 2022
Debt-hit Supertech enters insolvency; builder says won’t impact operations of groupSubscriber Only
March 26, 2022 02:14 IST
On January 31, 2021, Union Bank of India moved the NCLT claiming Supertech defaulted on payment of Rs 431.92 crore
Sat, Mar 26, 2022
Meta, MeitY officials to depose before panelSubscriber Only
March 26, 2022 01:16 IST
The standing committee is likely to seek ministry officials’ views on the ways in which the internet and especially social media intermediaries can be kept safe and trusted for children and women
Sat, Mar 26, 2022
Supertech insolvency: Homebuyers left in the lurchSubscriber Only
March 25, 2022 17:45 IST
Many buyers like Abhai Pratap Singh and Akhil Shrivastava had purchased flats in 2017. While Singh purchased at Hill Town and was supposed to have received it in 2018, Shrivastava bought a flat at Supertech Hues, Gurgaon, in 2017, and was promised possession in 2020.
Sat, Mar 26, 2022
Rajeev Chandrasekhar: ‘Big Tech weaponised internet amid conflict, presiding over splinter-net’Subscriber Only
March 23, 2022 04:20 IST
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.
Mon, Mar 28, 2022
Chip sector plan: Training hubs for 6,000 scholars, 2.5 lakh workersSubscriber Only
March 22, 2022 03:20 IST
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is in talks with select government funded higher education institutions to develop training and education programmes for around 2.5 lakh junior engineers for plant and shop floor management and around 5,000-6,000 research scholars who have at least a PhD, senior government officials said.
Tue, Mar 29, 2022
Eyeing ‘turnaround’, BBNL to merge with BSNL by month-endSubscriber Only
March 21, 2022 03:05 IST
The Indian Express had on January 9 reported that the government had decided to merge BBNL and BSNL by the end of this fiscal and that the latter was likely to finish BharatNet work, started by BBNL.
Mon, Mar 21, 2022
US bodies push back on data protection Bill, seek new working groupSubscriber Only
March 03, 2022 04:20 IST
Tweaks sought on localisation of data storage , cross-border data flow curbs.
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
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