Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
Vishal Agarwal and his team at Spatial Ideas are working closely with Indian Administrative Service officers to apply cutting-edge technology and data management solutions to Governance. The company is using GIS Mapping to develop solutions that will...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Civic bodies, which are reeling under acute funds crunch, have ignored a key proposal mooted for constituting a Geographic Information System-based database to strengthen property tax collection and improve their fiscal health. A recent scrutiny by the...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
The sleuths of Anti Corruption Bureau on Friday arrested Munagapaka land surveyor G VenkataSuryanarayana after he was caught red handed demanding and accepting a bribe from a farmer here. The surveyor at the mandal revenue office in...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Tunisia's "I Watch" organisation on Saturday (April 13th) launched a new online "crowd-map" for reporting cases of corruption. The name chosen for the site is "Billkamcha", a slang term for a person "caught in the act". Just...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Police have come up with little explanation as to why the 720-metre-long (2,400-foot-long) structure on Borneo island -- built just 10 years ago to resemble San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- gave way, sending dozens of vehicles...
Friday, February 25th, 2011
India’s rise has captured the world’s imagination, as the economy grows at nearly 9 percent a year and a growing consumer class buys cellphones, cars and homes. Yet foreign businesses and investors, once increasingly eager to tap...
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Six persons including two employees of National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) were sentenced to imprisonment by a special CBI court here in a fund irregularity case. After six years of trial, the special court convicted NRSA Project...
Monday, January 31st, 2011
India's home minister has admitted that half of the government's budget to build much-needed new roads never reaches its intended target in what he described as the country's "biggest swindle". P. Chidambaram, attending the World Economic Forum...
