PATNA - The Bihar government will soon have its own information technology (IT) policy and give industry status to the IT sector to help it attract more investments, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday.

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BANGALORE - As India's premier IT destination, Karnataka is pitching for rapid growth of the electronic hardware industry to replicate its success in the software sector achieved over the last decade.

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AGARTALA/SHILLONG - The state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will cover all urban areas in the northeastern region through its third generation (3G) platform, a next generation mobile communications systems, company officials have said.

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NEW DELHI - A nine-member South Korean delegation, headed by Dr. Kwak Seung-Jun, met Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja here today to explore possibilities of cooperation in the field of information technology and services.

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NEW DELHI - State-owned firms spent $3.1 billion on information technology in India during 2008 and the amount is expected to top $5 billion by 2011 at an annual growth of 19 percent between 2007-2011, says a new study by Springboard Research.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's IT sector will generate as many as 200,000 jobs in the next five years, state Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan said Thursday.

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NEW DELHI - In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday Union Minister of State for the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan stated that a sum of Rs.3.08 crores had been sanctioned during the year 2008-09 under the Plan Scheme of "CBI e-Governance" for setting up a Wide Area Network and other e-Governance applications for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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NEW DELHI - City-based e-governance firm MGRM has tied up with Bell ID, an identity card solutions provider headquartered in the Netherlands, to tap emerging opportunities in e-governance and identity management verticals in India.

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BANGALORE/HYDERABAD - India's software sector Monday welcomed the extension of tax holiday on export profits to 2010-11 from this fiscal, rationalisation of multiplicity of taxes on packaged software and abolition of fringe benefit tax (FBT) but felt that the increase in minimum alternate tax (MAT) would have adverse impact.

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BANGALORE - Israeli IT firms will partner with Indian vendors to jointly bid for the ambitious unique identification (ID) card project of the Indian government, a visiting Israeli IT industry official has said.

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