With crime on the rise, Kolkata now has a new plan to fight it by installing a high-tech surveillance system connected to police stations. Two scientists at the West Bengal University of Technology came up with the idea right after the AMRI fire tragedy. ...
08:20 AM, Jan 12, 2013
New Delhi: Aiming to eliminate bogus ration cards and ensure that food subsidy reaches the genuine beneficiaries, the government on Thursday approved a Rs 884 crore plan for end-to-end computerisation of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in the 12th Five-Year Plan on a cost-sharing basis with states. Around 18 crore households, including above poverty line and below poverty line, get subsidised ration under the TPDS. The cabinet committee on...
10:53 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: It is expected to rain more reforms as the Union Cabinet is set to meet on Monday. A massive overhaul of the Public Distribution System is on the cards. Sources say the government is likely to pump in Rs 42,000 crore to check the leakage in the system. The system is said to be having a leakage of almost 62 per cent. Under new system, the consumers will...
07:55 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan plans to create a secure communications and administration system at a cost of nearly Rs 13 billion for its armed forces and other security agencies with an aim to keep a check on "anti-state actors". "Establishment of a National Security Communication and Social Administration System among various agencies of the federal and provincial governments, such as law enforcement agencies, freighting departments, armed forces and other government functionaries, is...
01:13 PM, Jul 27, 2012
The software, which works with closed-circuit cameras, can even set off an alarm if it sees anything suspicious. ...
07:58 PM, Feb 16, 2007
