Digigaon

Ravi Shankar Prasad urges Satya Nadella for Microsoft's help in DigiGaon initiative

Union IT and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday met Indian-born CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella and urged him to consider the use of Microsoft's innovative technology in the upcoming DigiGaon (Digital Village) initiative.

Budget 2017: With Rs 10,000 crore allocated to Bharat Net; there is still a long way to go

With Rs 10,000 crore allocated to Bharat Net in 2017 Budget; there's a lot more to be done here than you, myself and the government can imagine.

Government to pump Rs 10,000 crore for BharatNet in 2017-18

Aiming to strengthen its Digital India push, the government on Wednesday said it will pump Rs 10,000 crore in 2017-18 in its BharatNet project to lay optical fibre cables (OFC).