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Sairaj Iyer In these days of automation, claiming complete safety is foolishness. The open world-wide internet does not bestow that pretention to anybody more so to those offices of power that are vulnerable to cyber-attacks of all kinds. India recently witnessed two cyber-attacks where hackers could access valuable data stored in high-profile nationalized banks. It is rumored that post those cyber-attacks, fake trade documents were made, to raise money or facilitate large illegal deals abroad. Without any further delay, the Indian Prime Minister’s office signed MoU’s with the global internet security provider Kaspersky. According to Vicente Diaz, Kaspersky’s Principal Security Analyst based in Barcelona, we are living in a world of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) and ransomware. In fact, digital espionage ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Japanese Ambassador to India Kenji Hiramatsu's meet with Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, on 6 Jan 2017, proved fruitful for India's smart city aspirations. Japan articulated its interest in the urban development initiatives of the Indian Government and decided to be a partner. Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi are the three cities Japan is going to assist in the process of smart city development. The MoU on cooperation in urban development, signed during the recent visit of British Prime Minister Theresa May, is also making headway following a meeting between Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and British High Commissioner Dominic Asquith. The last few years have seen heavy investment from foreign countries in India's ambitious 'smart city' plans for ...

The Dollar Business Bureau A business delegation from France, comprising 60 members will visit Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday to hold talks with the state government on infrastructure, smart cities and investment. The meeting is slated to be held in Vijayawada.Ambassador of France to India, Alexandre Ziegler, will be heading the team and hold discussions with the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu, on “smart cities and infrastructures, industry and investment, IT and communication, transportation, water and waste management, energy and environment,” said a release from the Embassy of France, New Delhi. Officials of the Embassy and the French Development Agency would showcase expertise of France in the fields of urban development, infrastructures and renewable energy, among others, the release said. “France is one of the major investors and is committed to ...

Sheela Mamidenna India is a burgeoning market for clean technology with Hyderabad and Ahmedabad being two important cities, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) Fred Walti told the correspondent of The Dollar Business on Tuesday. LACI is a non-profit organization and acts as a consultant for start-ups interested in green technology. In India LACI has tied up with CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship and T-Hub (Telengana Hub) of Hyderabad, for launching green tech incubators. Fred said he is also keen that other cities in India too would make a beginning in the field. Discussing the methods LACI would use in the penetration of markets, Fred said, “We will establish incubators for entrepreneurs and budding ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  The Maharashtra government on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Korea Land & Housing Corporation (KLHC) of the Republic of Korea.  This agreement is aimed at building a strategic partnership for smart cities, roads and bridges, etc while exchanging knowledge and expertise, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis tweeted. “This MoU is to build a strategic partnership for #smartcities, roads and bridges, etc and exchange of knowledge & expertise,” he tweeted. “I am happy to learn that KLHC intends to work with GoM (Government of Maharashtra) for smartcities, Maharashtra Samruddhi Corridor and some redevelopment projects,” Fadnavis said in a series of tweets. Soungeun Kim, the Consul General of Republic of Korea in Mumbai and Chandrakantdada Patil, Pravin Pote, Madan Yerawar, state ministers of Maharashtra were present during the occasion.

The Dollar Business Bureau A delegation headed by the Leocadia I Zak, Director of US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) on Wednesday met M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and discussed about the smart cities mission, for which MoUs have been signed. “The discussion was centred on the three smart cities – Visakhapatnam, Ajmer and Allahabad – for which Memorandums of Understanding MoUs has been signed between the respective state governments and USTDA,” according to an official release. Naidu said that the process of selecting the smart cities (a competition between cities to be included in the mission) is very transparent, scientific and participative, and is serving as a ‘role model’ for several ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu has strongly pitched for US investments in India in urban sector during his recent visit to the US. He held a series of meetings and interactions in New York on Thursday. He explained to the US policy makers, officials and corporates about the opportunities under various initiatives of the government, Ministry of Urban Development said in a statement on Friday. Naidu has provided the details of the urban renaissance process that is set in motion in the country with the introduction of several new urban missions that include Smart City Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. He described the paradigm ...

Aamir H Kaki The government is set to announce 14 more cities in a few days under the Smart City Mission, taking the total number of cities to 34 that will be financed in the first round, the Urban Development Ministry said. “There are 20 cities that have already been selected. We are going to announce another 13-14 cities shortly which will receive finance in the first set of funding,” M Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation told a gathering at the CII Smart City Investors Meet on Thursday in New Delhi. Naidu emphasised on the private sector participation in the development of smart cities and urbanising India. “It is important to involve the private players and to ...