Mumbai Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today launched a free high-speed public Wi-Fi service in collaboration with technology giant Google at Mumbai Central here, the first station in the country to get such facility. Terming the facility as "world class", Prabhu said around 100 busiest stations across the country will be brought under the free public Wi-Fi service by this year-end, making it the world's largest such project. "When I proposed the full-fledged (Railway) budget last year,...Read More

Ahmedabad In the month of September, when Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited the Google headquarters in America, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google will introduce 11 new languages in Android next month including Prime Minister's mother tongue Gujarati. “Next month we are going to take Android make it possible for you to type in Android in 11 more languages including PM’s mother tongue Gujarati,” said India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai. As per this announ...Read More

Washington Impressed by Google's flagship Project Loon - that takes internet to the remote and inaccessible areas - Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes this has multiple uses like long distance education, rural schools and telemedicine, officials said. He was given a briefing about Loon during his tour to the Google headquarters in the Silicon Valley over the weekend. Google officials told PM Modi that they were already doing a pilot project in Andhra Pradesh and the idea is to target...Read More

San Jose "Next month we are going to take Android make it possible for you to type in Android in 11 more languages including PM's mother tongue Gujarati," said India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai sharing the stage with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Google campus in San Jose, America. Pichai said the search engine giant will provide high speed internet services at 100 railway stations in India initially and then expand it by 400 more by next year. Recalling his young days wh...Read More

From Lalit K Jha Silicon Valley Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the Google campus where he was given a tour of some of the latest products and forward-looking researches being done by the search engine giant. Modi asked that Khagaul to be pinpointed on Google Earth when he was given a glimpse of the unique tool. Khagaul near Patna is where the great ancient astronomer Aryabhatta had an observatory. "Projects for progress," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup ...Read More

From Lalit K Jha San Jose Google will collaborate with Indian Railways to provide wi-fi services at 500 stations by next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today as he visited the headquarters of the search engine giant here. Modi, who took a tour of the Google campus seeing the latest products and forward-looking researches, was given a presentation of Google Earth in which the ghats of his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi were shown. He appreciated and encouraged Googl...Read More

San Jose Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted with 'Kem Chho' (how are you in Gujarati) at Google headquarters in San Jose, California by participants of Hackethon. Modi replied 'Eva ne eva' (as it is) and attracted a loud cheer. - DeshGujarat Read More