A break in the growth pattern of countries is a function of industrial revolutions aided by new technologies. Industrial Revolutions (IR) 1.0 and 2.0 were based on manufacturing technologies, while IR 3.0 was a communication revolution.

India said it fully recognises and respects the right of privacy, as pronounced by the Supreme Court of India.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad took a dig at foreign social tech platforms, saying that the era of the ‘East India Company’ is long gone, amid Twitter controversy.

The French media conglomerate finalized a deal to offload a 10 percent stake in the music major to a blank check company of Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square.

As screens become the window to the world, they have moved from being one for all earlier to one for each now.

The Indian government has proposed amendments in the Cinematograph Act to keep pace with the changing times and technology, which would also help in curbing online piracy and bring about uniformity in product classification for viewing by consumers as was recently done for streaming content.

“The efforts of the government and MeitY for pushing the digital agenda has resulted in India moving up the world digital competitiveness rankings,” Sawhney noted.

Over 600 pirate sites illegally streaming UEFA football games have been shut down by Italian authorities. Not only did the pirates receive criminal prosecutions, the website administrators were fined and end users who consumed the content may also face penalites of over 1,000 Euros (AUD $1,600) each.

Grieving the loss of the administrator, the Prime Minister remembered his days as the chief minister of Gujarat when he had worked with Mohapatra.