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Digital India Conclave 2015 provides policy and business updates linked to Digital India initiative

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New Delhi:  Digital India Conclave 2015 was organised today at The Lalit, New Delhi in the presence of eminent industry captains. Taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to transform India into a digitally enabled society, the Digital India Conclave 2015 focused on the role of innovation in delivering inclusive growth and creation of a knowledge economy. Event was Presented by India Inc. in association with Avian Media, Cisco, BDO pand Mckinsey India.

Delivering the Conclave’s keynote address, Amitabh Kant, Secretary, DIPP said, “For India to move up the knowledge economy value chain, it is imperative that our innovators not just Make In India but also Design and Create in India. Only then we will have the disruptive innovation that can drive the kind of economic growth India needs to support the government’s aim of improving lives for all our fellow citizens”.

In his welcome address, Manoj Ladwa, CEO, India Inc. said “Innovation is imperative if India wants to continue to grow its GDP by 9-10 per cent each annum and improve the quality of life for its citizens. Examples such as China and South Korea demonstrate how innovation can help countries leapfrog to a non-linear growth model that not only delivers economic growth but also improves a nation’s standing on human development indices,” He further added “It is against the backdrop of developing local solutions from a global perspective that India Inc. is hosting its second annual Digital India Conclave.”

“Innovation will be the key factor for the success of the Digital India programme. The need of the hour is innovative products and services to enhance e-governance and the delivery of digital services” said Nitin Mantri, CEO, Avian Media.

India Inc. launched its Digital India programme with the inaugural Conclave in New Delhi in December 2014 that was aimed at drawing up a clear digital roadmap. Since then the Conclave has been taken to Washington DC and Brussels to bring in international perspectives on how India can collaborate with global partners to achieve its goals of creating opportunities and better quality of life for all  citizens especially those marginalised and in remote corners of the country.

This year’s Digital India Conclave builds on India Inc.’s very successful Digital India Programme and the great strides India has made on developing an effective indigenous start-up ecosystem in the past year.  As the Conclave’s Chief Guest the Hon. Minister for IT & Communications, Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The Narendra Modi government has tackled a lack of coherent policy framework on developing an enabling environment to support innovation head-on and the results are already visible.”

“With 380 disclosed deals with a combined value of $3.5 billion, the first half of 2015 has had more deals than in 2014. In the first quarter of this year, Indian start-ups raised $1.7 billion, which was 300 per cent more than the $450 million raised in the Q1 of 2014,” the Minister added. “I am looking forward to the conclave making recommendations on how best we can harness the innovative power of India’s tech talent to not only deliver profits but also inclusive development.”

Globally acclaimed young Indian entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal and Web Summit Founder & CEO Paddy Cosgrove alongside other well regarded personalities such as Noshin Kaka, MD, Mckinsey India, R. Chandrasekhar IAS (retd), President of NASSCOM, among others were present to share their insights at this prestigious event which brought together senior stakeholders from the government, the corporate world, the start-up ecosystem and the financial sector.

 

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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