NEW DELHI: ‘I’m more worried about individuals being monitored and targeted because of lower cyber security in work-from-home conditions because of the pandemic than because of India-China tension after the Galwan killings,’ Dr Gulshan Rai, former National Cyber Security Coordinator told StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. With reports of tens of thousands of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For a company that’s a supplier to OEMs across the globe, Bharat Forge has been hit hard by the Coronavirus but the company’s boss Baba Kalyani sees an opportunity in the pandemic, echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a self-reliant India. This, coupled with the defence reforms, should be the way forward, according […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Google has found itself caught in the verbal crossfire between India and China. Anti-China sentiments already high in India thanks to the standoff on the LAC, has manifested itself in the tech space. The deletion by the internet search giant of ‘Remove China Apps’ – an Indian app designed to detect and remove […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As India moves into occupying the space of an IT superpower, the ability of the Information and communications technology (ICT) industry to provide the requisite technologies reliably for civilian and military requirements needs to be significantly enhanced. The issue is complicated by the fact that India has limited presence at the high-stakes table […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the last few days, TikTok, the app developed by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, with a huge following in India, has dropped many notches in the popularity stakes, from number 5 to 10 in the App playstore. The drop coincided with the India-China standoff in Ladakh. China’s Global Times was quick to notice and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has extended to June 24 its Rs 9000 crore (around $1.3 bn) tender for upgrading 50,000 new 4G sites in four zones and nearly 7000 new sites in Delhi and Mumbai for MTNL. Reports in the pink papers said “some officials in the Department […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The muddle in India’s telecom sector is likely to deepen with the Department of Telecom (DoT) expected to announce the schedule for 5G trials soon. Industry insiders warn that the government wants the trials to stretch well into the next year, which is viewed by many as a waste of resources and will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week’s announcement of several policy reforms in the defence and space sector, is a result of a detailed study undertaken by the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) to encourage Make in India in these two domains over the past six months. The creation of a negative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I do think that some of the companies moving away from China is not necessarily a commercial but a strategic decision, which is possibly being encouraged by governments. India can take advantage of this during and post COVID-19 if we develop a proper domestic structure,” says Suresh Prabhu, G-7 and G-20 Sherpa. Those […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It is said that India will reform only when its back is to the wall. The pandemic appears to have done that. An added incentive are reports that international businesses are seeking to diversify their investments away from China, and India could gain potentially if some of that money flows this way. In […]Read More
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