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ICT including Services
- National Optical Fibre Network Status report. Read More and 2.5 Lakh Gram Panchayats are to be connected by National Optic Fiber Network in next Three (3) Years. Read More
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has sought response from Indian telecom operators for its draft proposal to cut roaming call rates by 35% and SMS rates by 80%. Read More
- IBM, Tech Mahindra sign hybrid cloud services deal. Read More
- 350-550 million Indians to join mobile internet in four years: McKinsey. Read More
- Eight telecom operators have deposited earnest money of about Rs 20,435 crore (Euro 2.9B) for spectrum auction starting March 4. Read More
- Pan-India Mobile Number Portability from May 3, 2015 as regulator amends regulation. Read More
- Call rates may fall as TRAI slashes interconnection charges. Read More
- Digital India Vision: The Security Challenge. Read More
- Telecom regulator TRAI issues draft Tariff Order prescribing framework for commercial interoperability of CPE. Read More
Automotive
- Impetus to Automobile Sector: National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020. Read More
- Motor Vehicle Act amendment: http://www.prsindia.org/billtrack/the-motor-vehicles-amendment-bill-2014-3497/
- Govt. is launching a scheme for faster adoption and manufacturing of electric vehicles (FAME) with an initial outlay of Rs 75 crore. Read More
- Budget 2015: India to raise import tax on steel by 5% from 1st April 2015 to counter China threat. Read More
- Government plans additional Rs 14,000 crore (Euro 2B) corpus for alternate green fuel vehicles. Read More
- New cars will have to drive past crash test from 2017. Read More
- Amrita University sets up a centre for automotive research. Read More
- Auto industry asks govt to de-license several spectrum bands for telematics tech. Read More
- India’s top 5 auto component suppliers set to enter the global top 100 list. Read More
- Tech Mahindra gets auto certification. Read More
- New India Road Transport and Safety Bill draft suggests radical improvements. Read More
- Govt plans BSIV emission norms across India in next two years. Read More
Smart Cities
- New urban planning guidelines released. Read More
- To build a smart city, you need to have shared vision: Schneider Electric India MD. Read More
- The Prime Minister, Modi, and former Mayor of New York City, Mr. Michael Bloomberg, recently announced a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, to advance the “Smart Cities Initiative. Read More
- Smart city, smart parking: Mobility plan for Indian City Indore. Read More
- Reliance Group is planning to set up India’s first smart city for the Defence sector. Read More
- Smart cities are about more than technology: Martin Rama, the World Bank’s Delhi-based chief economist for South Asia. Read More
Standards/TBT/IPR
- Microsoft announces international standard ISO/IEC 27018 for Cloud privacy. Read More
- India needs to focus on privacy & data collection laws according to Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Read More
- The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will set up five new laboratories by next year to augment product testing infrastructure. Read More
- Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is developing standards for “solid waste management. Read More
- Finally, India to get labs to test medical devices. Read More
- India today ruled out amendment to the patent law, asserting that there are no gaps in protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Read More
- The draft National IPR Policy prepared by the Centre’s IPR Think Tank has come under harsh criticism from experts. Read More
Smart Cities – Role of Standards (Webinar): (17th March 2015)
Key speakers:
- Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma (Director – Standardization, Policy and Regulation, Project SESEI on European Standards)
- Ms. Anya Margaret Ogorkiewicz (Managing Director, The Keryx Group; Polish Permanent Representative to the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Smart City Standardisation Coordination Group (SSCC-CG))
India’s focus on Smart cities can be regarded as one of the most ambitious plans that Prime Minister Modi has proposed for revolutionising growth. As part of this initiative, the Indian Government will be developing 100 Smart Cities in the vicinity of existing/new major cities and getting them up to a new level of development.
Hence, it would be interesting to understand how different components within urban context such as green & sustainable buildings, electricity, urban transport, waste and water services, security, surveillance, network & communication technologies, work in tandem. This webinar shall help in understanding the importance of standards including other aspects of a smart city.
The webinar will broadly cover:
- Smart City Building Blocks and how standards can help planning and operating a smart city.
- Benefits of standards, including Architecture and International Standards work on Smart Cities and more.
The webinar would be of particular interest to stakeholders working/involved in the “Smart City” realm such as Planners & Developers, Governments, Investors, Industry Suppliers, Associations, and Utility Providers etc.
DG CONNECT & ETSI Workshop on Smart Appliances #3: (Brussels, 10 February 2015)
In the future, domestic or industrial energy using and producing products, also called appliances, will not be stand-alone systems anymore. They will be highly intelligent, networked and smart devices, which form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. One of the requirements for making such systems commercially successful and widely adopted, is that they can be extended over time according to the needs and budget of the user. Such systems will therefore consist of devices from different vendors added at different points in time, with open interfaces enabling further extension. These systems will also need to be able to communicate with service platforms from different energy service providers. ETSI’s proposed standard will take account of these requirements and will ensure interoperability through the integration with ETSI’s M2M architecture.
In coordination with this initiative, the European Commission has launched a “Study on the available semantics assets for the interoperability of Smart Appliances; Mapping into a common ontology as a M2M application layer semantics” (SMART 2013/0077), which will provide input to the ETSI work. TNO is performing this study.
This event will provide an update on the Smart 2013/0077 study and will be a place holder for discussion on Ontology, M2M mapping and certification.
Invest India
- FDI in insurance: Govt. to introduce rules soon. Read More
- RBI liberalizes put-call option regime for FDI investments. Read More
- Foreign Direct Investment in Pharmaceuticals sector – Clarification. Read More
- India has promised preferential market access for services suppliers from the poorest countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Read More
- Government may offer 13 services on e-biz portal by March 31. Read More
- Indian economy will grow by 7.4 per cent this fiscal. Read More
- Government to start ranking states on the ease of doing business. Read More
- PM chairs first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog: PM to “TEAM INDIA”. Read More
EU-INDIA/Trade-FTA/Investments
- Acceptance of the Order of the High Court of Bombay in the case of Vodafone India Services Private Limited. Read More
- Apollo Tyres is gearing up for a big run in Europe. Read More
- BMW is ramping up its localisation efforts in India with over 50% of parts sourced locally. Read More
- Valeo opens ?100-cr facility at Sanand. Read More
- German auto component manufacturer, ZF Friedrichshafen AG has opened a facility with a total investment of nearly Rs 150 crore. Read More
- Denish Auto designer Henrik Fisker planning a joint venture with Indian firm. Read More
- German Giant TÜV SÜD Buoyant on India’s Renewable Energy Market. Read More
- India, Germany to Set Up Working Groups on Water Management. Read More
- Spanish companies keen on investing in infrastructure, smart cities in India. Read More
- Top German CEOs call on PM, offer to invest in India. Read More
- European firms boost ops as government pushes for smart cities: Firms such as Schneider Electric, Alstom, ABB and ThyssenKrupp are reinforcing their Indian operations. Read More
- Mr. Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France, calls on Indian PM. Read More