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V_Raman wrote:WFH will eventually be disastrous for the economy. people congregating/traveling to do business essentially drives our modern way of life and all the economic activity that comes with it. What good is IT if there are no business to use the software and the cloud needed to run that software. It maybe good for the environment - but crippling for the economy nonetheless. This will eventually depress salaries and real estate prices. I guess I can continue to farm my land and be a software engineer at the same time to make ends meet. IMO of course.
Companies run their business using IT, not their office. Employees working from home actually improves utilization of software and will lead to more demand for corporate and business applications.

WFH would be great for Indian economy and unlock huge value that is locked in unproductive Real Estate. A large chunk of Indian disposable income is tied up in mortgage and rental payments and it will be free to move around in other sectors. It would eventually fill the gap between Tier 1and Tier 2/3 cities and improve living standards. I hope it continues.
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^^ Totally agree. IT folks moving to smaller towns is good because it creates demand for high speed Internet amongst other items. One of my pet peeves is how difficult it is still to get good Internet connection even in tier2 cities in India. Also, we need to decongest our larger cities.
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nam wrote:Hopefully WFH provides flexibility to the companies to hire people in Tier 2 cities. Allows them to reduce cost, employees would prefer to be in small town, reduce travel time and over population.

Not to mention the economic growth that would be available to Tier 2 cities.
Who wouldn't want to work for a Blore based company from Goa..
married people with kids :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: or parents to look after..
but on a serious note..ulanbatori ji had posted something similar on this group. This will support new business models
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vimal wrote:^^ Totally agree. IT folks moving to smaller towns is good because it creates demand for high speed Internet amongst other items. One of my pet peeves is how difficult it is still to get good Internet connection even in tier2 cities in India. Also, we need to decongest our larger cities.
Good plan but the problem is politicians don't want that. They make a lot of money in land deals and if people work from their Tier 2 cities, Bangalooru who will stay? House market will crash and everyone will blame the Govt and netas will lose easy money.

I think netas will make it as hard as possible to do WFH.
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KJo wrote:
vimal wrote:^^ Totally agree. IT folks moving to smaller towns is good because it creates demand for high speed Internet amongst other items. One of my pet peeves is how difficult it is still to get good Internet connection even in tier2 cities in India. Also, we need to decongest our larger cities.
Good plan but the problem is politicians don't want that. They make a lot of money in land deals and if people work from their Tier 2 cities, Bangalooru who will stay? House market will crash and everyone will blame the Govt and netas will lose easy money.

I think netas will make it as hard as possible to do WFH.
Most politicians own large properties in tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
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It's saddens to think that India does not even have one tier1 city per state.
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^^ Honestly, even the "Tier1" of most states are pretty abysmal by any standards we can choose

I can safely say that the infra of my hometown ( "Silicon valley of India, Bluru") is shockingly 2nd or 3rd tier by any standard except for a few chosen localities and the sad part is that there is no real push to improve it despite it being the cash cow it is ( the "IT areas" like Bommanhalli/Sarjapur ORR/Whitefield/Old Madras Road are shockingly bad for even basic level 0 amenities)

So, not sure if people going to tier-2 or tier-3 places will really change anything since our planners, rulers and junta are all equally apathetic to it
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I hope there are some sensible C-level executives in Indian IT companies who are seeing the cost benefit of allowing WFH. Unlike in western countries where the primary cost of running a office is signing a lease, in India apart from very expensive & incredibly overpriced commercial real estate, the operating cost also includes an army of security people, house keeping staff, drivers, transportation vehicles, water tankers, diesel generators, subsidized food and routine bribing of several licensing agencies. All this can be saved if you allow staff to remain remote or cut floor space and bring them in on a rotating basis permanently.

The biggest benefit is decongesting our overpopulated cities. The quality of life even for upper middleclass and the wealthy outside of their homes is abysmal in these cities. Pollution, traffic, shortage of space, shortage of shools , playgrounds, water makes living in any of our metros a hellish experience. Many of our tier 1 cities were not designed to hold even 1/4th of their current population. One of the most important lessons we've learnt from this pandemic is that one is at a much higher risk in a densely populated setting than in a semi-urban or a rural area, the more people we have cramped up in metros, the higher the risk that the next pandemic will wipe out a large number of people. Having said that I don't know which one will come first ; better infrastructure in smaller towns/tier 2 cities after more people begin to move in or will the infrastructure improve in smaller towns to attract more people to relocate there. Without high speed internet, availability of decent housing, good schools and hospitals not many will voluntarily move out of metros anytime soon.
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Ambar ji, it all boils down to how wide the tax base is.
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KJo wrote:
vimal wrote:^^ Totally agree. IT folks moving to smaller towns is good because it creates demand for high speed Internet amongst other items. One of my pet peeves is how difficult it is still to get good Internet connection even in tier2 cities in India. Also, we need to decongest our larger cities.
Good plan but the problem is politicians don't want that. They make a lot of money in land deals and if people work from their Tier 2 cities, Bangalooru who will stay? House market will crash and everyone will blame the Govt and netas will lose easy money.

I think netas will make it as hard as possible to do WFH.
Quite literally half the land and prime real estate in tier 2/tier 3 cities and towns are owned by politicians. Devegowda family owns thousands of acres and many prime buildings in Hassan town either directly or thro' proxies. Similarly Shamanur shivashankarappa's family owns thousands of crores worth properties in Davangere and Shimoga districts of Karnataka. Its the same everywhere in India irrespective of which party MP/MLA control's a particular area. I would like to believe they have a vested interest in encouraging more people to settle in smaller cities to drive up the real estate prices there.
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nam wrote:This is bit OT, but as we were discussing about Indian digital platform.

Apparently we now have https://tooter.in/, which is the Indian version of twitter. What is wonderful is that the Indian PM is now on this platform, along with other important people in the Indian Government.

As I mentioned earlier, the way to grow a Indian Digital ecosystem is get important and famous people on it. The crowd will follow.
Why are only Gmail or Yahoo ids allowed?

Won't work.
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India can now create Aatmanirbhar secured internet.

With over 50% share in next generation IP addresses, India now has the potential to create its own secured internet by setting up a root server locally for less than ₹10 crore, according to state-run ITI and industry platform IPv6 Forum.

The DoT had released the first and second roadmap to roll out IPv6 addresses in the country in 2010 and 2012 which can grant several trillions of unique internet addresses unlike the old regime of IPv4 which has limit of 3 billion IP addresses.

"The work on IPv6 started in 2006. India was last to implement IPv6 roadmap. It now has over 50 per cent market share in IPv6 address and leads the world in terms of subscribers," ITI Chairman and Managing Director RM Agarwal told PTI. He was responsible for driving the implementation of IPv6 adoption in the country under his portfolio as Deputy Director General, Network Technology at the Department of Telecom (DoT).

Internet works by connecting internet protocol (IP) addresses of websites, subscribers etc. Earlier IPv4 version of IP addresses was in work which are limited in numbers and not enough to cater to the growing demand of data services.

"There are only about 3 billion IPv4 addresses which are already exhausted whereas under IPv6 there are several trillions of IP addresses. Reliance Jio contributed in taking India to the leadership position. Each of Reliance Jio customers are connected through IPv6 address. We can now have our Aatmanirbhar secure internet. India can now set up its own root server with less than ₹10 crore," IPv6 Forum chairman Satya N Gupta said.

He said IPv6 Forum is working to implement and expand IPv6 in India to develop the platform indigenously by using trusted devices. At present, there are 13 root servers which play a vital role in working on the internet globally. 11 root servers are located in the US and 1 each in Europe and Japan.

"The Internet will stop working if any of the root servers are switched off. With an indigenous root server, India can continue to communicate within its own jurisdiction. Government, industry and other stakeholders can jointly manage it. We want technocrats in India to develop IPv6 servers," Gupta said. He said industry alone can develop the server which will also enhance cyber security in the country.

"The National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) already has expertise in IPv6. The company can develop native technologies on IPv6 and export them as well. Theoretically, every country will have its own root server," Gupta said.

Agarwal said that ITI will conduct workshops for expansion of IPv6 technology in the country and also support other Asian countries.

"We were supported by other countries when we were in the first phase. Now it is our job to help others. IPv6 is pivotal for Digital India. To support 5G and related technologies like machine-to-machine, internet of things etc we need IPv6," Agarwal said.
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The India stack that Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai so love is set to get much bigger – thanks to the Indian government’s new blockchain strategy.

-The Indian government has drafted a National Strategy on Blockchain.

-This could be the next big step in the India Stack – an ambitious technology project Indian government embarked upon over 10 years ago.
If the implementation of UPI was revolutionary, the scale of changes that the addition of blockchain infrastructure can facilitate will be way, way bigger.

-Over 10 years ago, the Indian government opened up its database for private players to build products upon it. The combination of Aadhaar ⁠— the world’s largest identity database ⁠— along with the government’s payments infrastructure, riding on the proliferation of mobile phones, allowed millions of Indians to leapfrog into the digital payments era.

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The sheer scale of the ambition and its success in bringing financial inclusion got the Indian government laurels from some of the biggest icons of modern technology, including Bill Gates, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai. And now, India is set to add blockchain infrastructure to that India Stack and the benefits could be way, way bigger than what the unified payments interface (UPI) achieved.

According to the draft National Strategy on Blockchain, a government-led blockchain infrastructure can become the hub for private developers to build applications.

If the India Stack allowed developers to build payments products, access to blockchain infrastructure can revolutionise products and services across healthcare, cyber security, governance, media, logistics & hospitality, education, legal, energy, smart cities and so on.

“Blockchain being a single source of truth can be used for authentication and verification of all the transactions and data, produced by various government departments,” said the draft. The government is currently accepting public opinions on the draft until February 16 through the MyGov platform.

Now, what can this technology be used for? The latest draft from The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has laid out some of its targets.

-Setting up a national framework for blockchain.

-Architecture options for blockchain including private participation.

-Applications of national interest for blockchain which includes e-voting, land records, pharmaceutical supply, power distribution, identity management among others.

-Build centres of excellence of blockchain technology.

-The success of the India Stack is fuelling excitement around the ‘India ledger’

By opening up its database securely for private developers, India had done what no other country had.

Opening up a blockchain infrastructure for similar innovations may lead to bigger advancements in technology than UPI, which is hailed as India’s most successful digital project. “We can create our own massive blockchain ledger, say India Ledger, where all researchers and experts come together. The third is that we need to create our own journey with blockchain. Now, is the time to really work on these thoughts,” said Prasanna Lohar, head of digital innovations at DCB Bank and a blockchain expert who has been privy to the discussions around blockchain with the government.

Along with the blockchain strategy, India is toying with the idea of banning private cryptocurrency and instead bringing out its own “digital rupee”.
“Niti Aayog, India's think tank has been working on IndiaChain, India's own ambitious project to develop a nationwide blockchain network, which has revolutionized India’s position as one of the emerging technology players. A few months ago, a blockchain project named Vajra designed by the National Payments Corporation of India for various payment companies providing secured transactions on their online platforms or mobile applications, shows the government is taking proactive initiative to support blockchain,” said Neeraj Khandelwal, co-founder of cryptocurrency and bitcoin startup CoinDCX.
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Google's India advertising revenue is $1.2 billion and growing at more than 20%. That's enough money to hire 25,000 to 50,0000 employees in India. Indian search market is now big enough to sustain a home grown company. If I had money I would hire Amit Singhal to start an Indian google, especially considering how he was let go from google. He must be itching to get back. I would be surprised if Amit Singhal is already not working on a rival to google. Google search is beginning to suck anyway.
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Google needs to be one of the targets for GoI and hopefully it's.
ISRO and MapmyIndia join hands to build an alternative to Google maps with ‘make in India’ mapping portal and geospatial services: Details
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MapmyIndia CEO and Executive Director, Rohan Verma took to LinkedIn on Friday to announce the initiative. Verma said that both the organisations would come with an India made mapping portal and geospatial services. Verma added that the collaboration will boost Aatmanirbhar Bharat, where, in the future, the users in India can rely on a made-in-India solution and not a service designed outside India. “You don’t need Goo*le Maps/Earth any longer”, Verma wrote in his LinkedIn post.
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GoI should treat IT as trade and open more trade colleges to handle cyber work. Colleges without unrelated garbage classes and curriculum that waste time that GoI doesn't have and to avoid brainwashing.
Dark Net Increasingly Being Used By Drug Traffickers In India, Crypto Currency Mode Of Payment: Report
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The role of the 'Dark Net' has been a major concern of India's drug law enforcement agencies with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) itself admitting in a secret note that the medium is being used "increasingly" here by drug traffickers.

The note, shared with a high-level committee consisting of 31 Parliamentarians, reveals that the changing pattern in the illegal trade is safer, compared to previous mediums used by the drug traffickers.

"The drug traffickers are increasingly using the 'Dark Net' for trafficking in drugs. Dark Net medium offers complete anonymity because of the use of onion routing and use of crypto currency for payment," says the note accessed by IANS.
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Are there any good support forums related to printers? My HP Deskjet printer behaving strangely and even the official HP Support forum offers no solution. Issue is related to page alignment. Thanks in advance.. 8).
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^I have moved from Deskjet to laser B&W printer from Brother. The basic model is available in warehouse stores and has better ROI then inkjet class printers. If it is not new, then donate it and buy a laser B&W printer.
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The Oracle and Google battle resulted in a landmark decision by US Supreme court

https://swarajyamag.com/technology/why- ... developers

I know people will say "Big Blow to Larry" etc. This is a big blow to Google, Amazon, Apple and others as well.

Here is the deal, you can now create an android or iOS clone for your own smartphones and mimic the public APIs of Android OS, iOS etc. That is I can create DOS (Disha OS for short) for the chipsets coming from SCI. I can mimic the Android APIs, that is any application that runs on Android can now run on DOS. There will be some debugging involved, but I do not have to pay any royalty to Google/Android. I can do the same for iOS.

This tilts the scale towards application developers and commoditizes Operating systems. Till an entirely new revolution advances in OS development (Secure OS or SOS anyone?)*

Now if OS is the platform with public APIs and any other OS which mimics those APIs can find place, extend that to the Amazon. If you have enough werewithal, you can create a cloud service that mimics Amazon's cloud APIs (or Google's search APIs) and all the applications running on AWS can run on your cloud.
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4 days, 6 unicorns, $1.55 billion — A week like none other for Indian startups.

Half a dozen Indian startups raised $1.55 billion (Rs 11,580 crore) to enter the unicorn club between April 5 and April 9, in what has been a record-setting week of funding in the domestic new age Internet ecosystem.

Just 12 unicorns — privately held startups valued at $1 billion or more — were born in all of 2020, but that itself was the highest ever for a year in India. 2021 has already seen the birth of 10 startup unicorns in India.

The six deals announced last week spanned sectors, including healthcare ( Pharmeasy), social commerce ( Meesho), iatockntech ( Groww and Cred), and social and content platforms ( Gupshup and ShareChat parent Mohalla Tech).

India is on track to have more than 50 startup unicorns in 2021, according to a Nasscom-Zinnov report.

New York-based Tiger Global emerged as the most aggressive investor, reminiscent of the then former partner Lee Fiel’s 2015 run, with investments in four of the six new unicorns. It led the $502 million round in ShareChat and the $83 million round in Groww. The fund was the sole investor in the $100 million round of Gupshup, which raised money after 10 years.

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"Tiger is the new SoftBank," said Anand Lunia, founding partner at India Quotient, an early-stage investor whose portfolio includes Lendingkart, Sugar Cosmetics and ShareChat.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 invested $300 million in social platform Meesho, which faced its share of rejection in its initial years of fundraising because of its model of e-commerce focussed on small businesses in India, Meesho founder Vidit Aatrey said.

“To the team, it's a sign of validation and a sign of a larger responsibility being put on our shoulders, and a belief that we can pull o our ambitious vision of bringing 100 million small businesses online. It is all exciting and inspiring for everyone and we are enjoying that," said Aatrey, who is also the chief executive officer of the company.

The week's deal activity and unicorn bonanza was a culmination of hard work and process over several months, said Vinod Murali, managing partner at Alteria Capital Advisors.

“We should continue to see similar momentum for the next few quarters, but hope founders are able to use the abundant supply of capital well and build fundamentally strong businesses,” Murali said.

Overall, Indian startups raised $2.6 billion across 21 deals from April 3-9, according to data provided by industry tracker Venture Intelligence.

"In a world of zero-cost money, investors have reset the models for valuing the terminal value of businesses. SaaS (software-as-a-service) businesses with very sticky and growing revenues and consumer companies with the winnertake-all characteristics, both seem to be much more valuable now," Lunia said. "Indian startups have performed
admirably in the pandemic. In a lot of spaces, winners are emerging even more clearly now. It is these companies that are becoming unicorns faster."

Another New York-based fund, Falcon Edge, emerged as a key investor this week. Itled the $800 million round, along with Amansa Capital, in food delivery startup Swiggy at a valuation of $5 billion, increasing the startup’s war chest 4/11/2021 unicorns in india: 4 days, 6 unicorns, $1.55 billion —
against the IPO-bound rival Zomato. Falcon Edge also led the $215 million round in ntech startup Cred at a valuation of $2.2 billion.

Other large deals closed by startups included the $65 million round led by General Catalyst (early backers of Snap, Airbnb, and Stripe) in car reseller platform Spinny and OFB Tech’s business-to-business platform OfBusiness’ Series D2 round of $110 million, led by Falcon Edge at a valuation of $800 million.

India has seen record-breaking deal activity across stages since January. The average deal size has gone up substantially, with funding rounds closing in record time and startups raising more capital than planned.

Year to date, Series A rounds have notched up an average $6.29 million in 63 deals, the highest in the last five years, according to data tracked till April 8 by Tracxn.

According to a joint report by IT industry lobby group Nasscom and technology consultancy Zinnov, India is on track to have more than 50 startup unicorns in 2021.

On his future plans, Ankush Sachdeva, chief executive officer of ShareChat and Moj, wrote in a blog post: "We are at a significant inflection point in our company’s journey — as the Internet penetration deepens in India, we are well positioned to expand our ecosystem of products to over 1 billion monthly active users cumulatively."
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disha wrote:^I have moved from Deskjet to laser B&W printer from Brother. The basic model is available in warehouse stores and has better ROI then inkjet class printers. If it is not new, then donate it and buy a laser B&W printer.
I have a Brother inkjet (J885DW) and it runs out of ink every few months. I was able to get aftermarket cartridges from Amazon for $20 (larger quantity). It stopped printing! Luckily I found out that the head was dirty, so I cleaned that and it worked (for now).

What laser printer did you buy? I may need one for home use.
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KJo wrote:
disha wrote:^I have moved from Deskjet to laser B&W printer from Brother. The basic model is available in warehouse stores and has better ROI then inkjet class printers. If it is not new, then donate it and buy a laser B&W printer.
I have a Brother inkjet (J885DW) and it runs out of ink every few months. I was able to get aftermarket cartridges from Amazon for $20 (larger quantity). It stopped printing! Luckily I found out that the head was dirty, so I cleaned that and it worked (for now).

What laser printer did you buy? I may need one for home use.
It may not work all the time. I have an Epson all-in-one inkjet and the problem is the printer refused to recognize re-manufactured cartridges. Earlier you could take the empty ink cartridges to your local Costco to fill them up. But alas Costco stopped that business.
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Guys, have a nube question. I have a totally non IT background.

What is the difference between Rule engines and AI?
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Rule engines are a type of AI. Some problems are well suited for rule engines, with the key advantage being that they don't need large amount of data to set up. Much of today's AI applications depend on training with data.
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Pratyush wrote:Guys, have a nube question. I have a totally non IT background.

What is the difference between Rule engines and AI?
Pratyush ji, the below link might help you better understand what poster vera_k states.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MACHINE LEARNING AND RULE BASED SYSTEMS
Rules-based systems are a simple kind of artificial intelligence, which uses a series of simple IF-THEN statements that guide a computer to reach a conclusion or recommendation based on certain rules or logic.

Machine learning methods typically only take the outcomes and tweak themselves to reach those outcomes.

Machine learning is probabilistic in nature and uses statistical models rather than deterministic rules.
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India scales new highs in high power computing with speeds of around 45 petraflops.

Phase III of the National Super Computing Mission (NSM), initiated this year, will take the computing speed available in the country to around 45 Petaflops. This will include three systems of 3 PF each and one system of 20PF as a national facility.

Infrastructure planned in NSM Phase I has already been installed and much of Phase II will be getting in place soon, helping to meet the increasing computational demands of academia, researchers, MSMEs, and startups in areas like oil exploration, flood prediction as well as genomics and drug discovery.

Computing infrastructure has already been installed in four premier institutions and installation work is in rapid progress in 9 more. Completion in of Phase II of NSM in September 2021 will take the country’s computing power to 16 Petaflops (PF). MoUs have been signed with a total of 14 premier institutions for establishing Supercomputing Infrastructure with assembly and manufacture in India. These include IITs, NITs, National Labs, and IISERs.

The National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a supercomputing grid, with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone. The NSM is setting up a grid of supercomputing facilities in academic and research institutions across the country. Part of this is being imported from abroad and part built indigenously. The mission is being jointly steered by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) and implemented by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU), followed by PARAM Shakti, PARAM Brahma, PARAM Yukti, PARAM Sanganak at IIT-Kharagpur IISER, Pune, JNCASR, Bengaluru and IIT Kanpur, respectively.

A new dimension has now been added in India’s march towards leadership position in supercomputing with the convergence of HPC and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A 200 AI PF Artificial Intelligence supercomputing system has been created and installed in C-DAC, which can handle incredibly large-scale AI workloads increasing the speed of computing-related to AI several times. PARAM Siddhi - AI, the high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer, has achieved global ranking of 62 in TOP 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world, released on 16 November 2020.

The mission has also created the next generation of supercomputer experts by training more than 4,500 HPC aware manpower and faculties till date. To expand the activities of the HPC training, four NSM nodal centres for training in HPC and AI have been established at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Goa and IIT Palakkad. These centres have conducted online training programmes in HPC and in AI.

Powered by the NSM, India’s network of research institutions, in collaboration with the industry, is scaling up the technology and manufacturing capability to make more and more parts in India. While in Phase I, 30 per cent value addition is done in India that has been scaled up to 40 per cent in Phase II. India has developed an indigenous server (Rudra), which can meet the HPC requirements of all governments and PSUs.

The three phases will provide access to high-performance computing (HPC) facilities to around 75 institutions and more than thousands of active researchers, academicians working through Nation Knowledge Network (NKN) - the backbone for supercomputing systems, says a ministry of science and technology release.
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Thanks guys.
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Govt allocates additional Rs 19,041 cr for broadband connectivity in villages under BharatNet.

The government on Monday allocated an additional Rs 19,041 crore to provide broadband connectivity in all villages under the BharatNet project.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on August 15, 2020 announced that all villages will be connected with broadband in 1,000 days.Additional Rs 19,041 crore is being provided so that the commitment that in 1,000 days from 2020 all villages will have broadband connectivity is fulfilled, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while announcing stimulus measures for various sectors.

“Total outlay for this Bharatnet project goes up to Rs 61,109 crore,” she added. She further said Rs 42,068 crore has been already utilised for reaching 1,56,223 gram panchayats that are now ready for broadband services as of May 31.

“Now with this additional Rs 19,041 crore we should be able to complete the rest,” Sitharaman said.

Under the BharatNet project, the government initially targeted to cover all 2.52 lakh gram panchayats with high-speed broadband services.
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Global tenders worth Rs 29,500 crore invited for BharatNet.

n a first major move under the new Telecommunications and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the government on Tuesday invited global tenders under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode for works worth Rs 29,500 crore in 16 states under the ambitious BharatNet project which will connect every village by broadband.

The scope of this project, considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heart, has been expanded to cover all 6.3 lakh villages in the country by 2023. The PM had announced from Red Fort last year on Independence Day that this would be achieved within the next 1000 days. The present works for which tenders are out would involve connecting 3.61 lakh villages by optical fiber.

Vaishnaw had undertaken a detailed review of this project soon after taking over as the new Telecom and IT Minister on July 9. The BharatNet project had been struggling for pace so far. The initial scope of the project was to cover 2.5 lakh gram panchayats in the country with optical fiber by August 2021. However, that deadline was missed. The government had told Parliament this March that only about 1.5 lakh Gram Panchayats had been service ready so far and 5.09 lakh kms of Optical Fibre Cable was laid.

The government then said the project progress was affected due to lockdown and movement restrictions due to COVID pandemic.

Pursuant to the PM’s announcement last August, the Union Cabinet on June 30 approved a revised implementation strategy of BharatNet through PPP mode in 16 States and the project to extend up to all inhabited villages (6.3 lakh) beyond Gram Panchayats in the said states. Estimated maximum viability gap funding for PPP model of Rs 19,041 crore was also approved.

In a statement issued on Tuesday after the tenders were put out, the government said the scope of work under BharatNet PPP Project would include connecting the remaining unconnected Gram Panchayats and all the inhabited Villages beyond the Gram Panchyats, upgradation of the existing BharatNet Network from Linear to Ring topology and operation and Maintenance and utilisation of the existing as well as the newly deployed network.

The Bharat Broadband Network Limited will administer the Project as the Project Management Agency, as per the tender document. “The concessionaire would endeavor to use domestically manufactured products in the Project to promote the spirit of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’,” the document also says. The earlier phase of the BharatNet project were implemented through three Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs), BSNL, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) and the RailTel Corporation of India Limited.

The government said the PPP Model will leverage Private Sector efficiency for operation, maintenance, utilisation and revenue generation and is expected to result in faster rollout of BharatNet. Also, extension of reach of BharatNet to all inhabited villages with reliable, quality, high speed broadband will enable better access of e-services offered by various Central and State Government agencies, the government says. The penetration and proliferation of broadband is also expected to increase direct and indirect employment and income generation.

The government also says that the PPP Model in this critical infrastructure of Telecom is a novel initiative. “The Private Sector Partner is also expected to bring an equity investment and raise resources towards capital expenditure and for operation and maintenance of the network. Hence, the PPP Model for BharatNet will enhance efficiency, quality of service, consumer experience and leverage private sector expertise, entrepreneurship and capacities for accelerating achievement of digital India. This will be in addition to substantial savings of public money,” the government said.
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IT industry braves Covid-19, clocks ₹1.20 lakh cr exports in Q1.

If the first quarter export numbers are any indication, the Indian information technology industry is poised for a 8-9 per cent growth in exports in the current financial year.

The IT companies attached to the STPI have registered exports to the tune of ₹1.20 lakh crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2021.

“During the pandemic year, the Indian IT industry displayed great resilience to global disruptions and delivered services and solutions to their clients across the globe,” Omkar Rai, Director-General of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), has said.

The growth was triggered by factors like significant adoption of cloud and emerging technologies by enterprises across industry verticals and rapid digitisation by MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) to become competitive.

“During the first quarter of the financial year 2021-22, the STPI-registered units have realised ₹1.2 lakh crore exports, which would rise further in the coming quarters,” he said.

There are about 5,100 units registered under the STPI in different parts of the country.

The quantum of exports, however, was a tad lower than ₹1.27 lakh crore recorded in the same quarter last year.

The STPI executive, however, contended that it was not proper to compare numbers as the present quarter was preceded by a prolonged pandemic, while first quarter last year was preceded by a normal year.

“The H1 (first half) numbers would be more appropriate to compare as the industry would reflect the situation better then,” he said.

Growth drivers
Pegging a growth rate of 8-9 per cent in exports for 2021-22, the STPI said fintech, medtech, edutech and gametech would drive the growth in the remaining three quarters.

The STPI, in fact, has upwardly revised the growth forecast. In April 2021, the STPI had forecast that the exports would grow at 5-6 per cent.

With the demand for digital transformation growing significantly, the STPI has revised the growth estimates for the current financial year.

As the businesses embrace technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, big data analytics, augmented reality and virtual reality, the STPI expected a high single-digit growth rate during the year.

The STPI-registered companies have registered exports worth ₹5.01 lakh crore during 2020-21 against ₹4.60 lakh crore in 2019-20.

Karnataka topped the list with ₹2.05 lakh crore, followed by Maharashtra with ₹96,805 crore and Telangana with ₹84,775 crore.
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mappunni wrote:
KJo wrote:
I have a Brother inkjet (J885DW) and it runs out of ink every few months. I was able to get aftermarket cartridges from Amazon for $20 (larger quantity). It stopped printing! Luckily I found out that the head was dirty, so I cleaned that and it worked (for now).

What laser printer did you buy? I may need one for home use.
It may not work all the time. I have an Epson all-in-one inkjet and the problem is the printer refused to recognize re-manufactured cartridges. Earlier you could take the empty ink cartridges to your local Costco to fill them up. But alas Costco stopped that business.
Laser printers are the best but are costly. Inkjets are cheap but need cartridges regularly which dry up if not used for long. Inktank printers are a good compromise between the two. Printing cost is close to laserjet and at the same time the colour printers are affordable for home use. Plus the ink can be stored in the tanks for relatively longer times though it does not eliminate the problem of ink drying entirely.
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neerajb wrote: Laser printers are the best but are costly. Inkjets are cheap but need cartridges regularly which dry up if not used for long. Inktank printers are a good compromise between the two. Printing cost is close to laserjet and at the same time the colour printers are affordable for home use. Plus the ink can be stored in the tanks for relatively longer times though it does not eliminate the problem of ink drying entirely.

You should try and use the Epson Ink Tank printers, these last a really long time and can be refilled with inks that are sold in bottles, you just buy a bottle and empty it into the ink tank in the printer. I have been using one for about 3 years and they work great and the print cost is much lower than the cartridge type of printers.
check them out here https://www.epson.co.in/inktankprinter
I think even canon has got into the ink tank game now.

Cheers..
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Planning to buy a multi-function printer with scanner for home use. Probably will go for Ink Tank though our print volumes will be quite low. We've had not so great experience with deskjet/inkjet printers in the past especially with cartridges drying up when we want to print. Ruling out laser since its super expensive and we want to have an option of printing in colour (laser color printers cost upwards of 30K INR).

For folks who are using ink tank printers, how often one needs to use the printer to make sure inks don't dry up or cartridge head doesn't get jammed up. Some reviewers on Youtube are mentioning that at least 1-2 pages of print needs to be taken per week to prevent cartridge head jamming.

Also currently zeroed in on HP 419 Colour Multi Function Ink Tank Wi-Fi Printer which is around 14.5k INR. Main attraction is Wi-Fi direct printing. Just seeking thoughts on similar model from Canon & Epson. My primary laptop runs Ubuntu OS and I need to have ability to print using Wi-Fi from it. HP provides drivers for Linux OS (so does Epson I think).

Anyways, would appreciate some pointers from folks who are using ink tank printers.
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our epson ink tank printer does get clogged if dont use it for a week, but, the cost is so low, I tell my kids to use it for whatever they want and never worry about the cost of printing. As per my last calculation it was less than a rupee per page and the price is pretty much the same if you want colour or B&W.
But yes, do print regularly else you will have to run the nozzle clean routine or the nozzle flush routine often to get better print quality.
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HP is mafia lord of this gang. I try to search an alternative but all other marks are expansive per page. I end up buying hp. Every thing is on line. Any fine day it will stop working and ask me to reinstall driver. He'll. Why there no plug and play printers any more. Try to configure . Bluetooth is never working. Then of one color is low , it will stop working, even for black ink. You buy ink cartridges. If it is non-hp it will not work. You really need skills of low level software person.
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Zynda wrote:For folks who are using ink tank printers, how often one needs to use the printer to make sure inks don't dry up or cartridge head doesn't get jammed up. Some reviewers on Youtube are mentioning that at least 1-2 pages of print needs to be taken per week to prevent cartridge head jamming.
I am using an Epson ink tank printer (all-in-one with WiFi connectivity) for the past year and the experience has been good so far. I print only occassionally, say once or twice a month, but haven't come across issues like jamming or drying ink. I suppose the BLR weather helps it stay cool I guess.

Epson printers are a bit high on the initial cost unlike HP, but their running cost is much lower. Even the older inkjets were like this - refill was cheaper and less hassle free compared to HP. HP gave their printers for a much lower cost but gouged you on ink/cartridge price, which was why I moved away from HP a few years ago. Ink tanks, in theory, address the refill cost issue quite well (though I haven't refilled my Epson yet).
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I had a HP deskjet and it used to go paki on me randomly. Sometimes wifi will not detect it and sometimes it will print only half the page. Finally threw it out and purchased a Brother ink tank printer last month. It is definitely pricier but I want something which will work when I need a print out urgently. With HP it was all Ram bharose.
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Guys, aren't there enough internet fora to check out printers? Why on BRF Indian IT Industry thread ?!
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