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Topic: Internet

UK govt announces broadband contract for 37,000 homes

Isolated communities to see major upgrade in internet speeds.

India’s push for faster internet in Northeast hit as Bangladesh cancels bandwidth supply agreement

The proposal involved using the India-Bangladesh Akhaura border in Tripura as a transit route from Singapore to connect the region with Southeast Asia via Bharti Airtel’s network.

50% of India’s internet users don’t know how to send email, a third know online banking—govt survey

CAM survey by National Sample Survey Office showed big rural-urban gap in ability to use internet, with only 53.6% respondents able to operate it in rural areas, and 74% in urban areas.

SubscriberWrites: The Evolution Of The Internet

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was first awarded the contract to form the same in a local area they called it ARPANET.

Internet access can be good for you, says Oxford study. Unless you’re a young woman

84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and well-being were positive. Only 5% of the associations were negative—mostly observed among 15 to 24-year-old women.

From Jat agitation to Nuh violence, mobile internet services cut 55 times in Haryana in last 8 years

Data submitted in Haryana assembly by Anil Vij during Question Hour earlier this week, in reply to a query by Nuh MLA and Congress leader Aftab Ahmed.

Indian women 40% less likely to use mobile internet than men, finds telecom non-profit GSMA

New Delhi: India’s progress on digital inclusion has stalled yet again, said a new report released Wednesday, which found that women in the country...

SubscriberWrites: Death of newspapers is being abetted by full-page ads

There used to be something about newspapers that made just ‘news’ into ‘News’. Compared to the churning, seething mass of offerings, announcements, positions and statements bubbling...

Nationalism, rent-seeking could spoil our digital future. Learn from history of internet

Just like the first internet engineers who designed the network they wanted, today's users should have the freedom to choose the kind of internet they want.

People in lower-income nations work 3 times more due to slower internet speed, says study

Surfshark’s research also notes that Africa 'experiences the sharpest internet divide', with only 55 per cent of the population having access.

On Camera

People of Assam, we’ll fight to the end until it’s victory for us: Nehru during Chinese invasion

On 19 November 1962, PM Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the people of Assam in a radio address and spoke of the resolve against Chinese attack, saying India won't tolerate this invasion.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

What’s standing between Modi & Trump? India’s contradictions

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.