Department of Electronics and Information Technology News

 India aims to capture 20 percent market share in Internet of Things (IoT), an emerging sector which would be worth USD 300 billion by 2020, a top Nasscom official said today.

Shortly after a controversy erupted over government's plans to snoop on every message sent through WhatsApp, SMS, e-mail or any such service, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology clarified that social media websites and applications will be exempted from the purview of the draft National Encryption Policy.

The official added that it is technically not possible to block an application only in Delhi and the execution can only happen at the national level.

"The department will set up a Rs 10,000-crore corpus to fund innovation in electronics and IT," DEITY secretary R S Sharma said.

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) has given in-principle (rpt) principle approval to Odisha's first electronic manufacturing cluster Info-valley which is expected to entail investment of Rs 979 crore, industry body IESA said today.