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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a topic on innovation for India Microsoft at Tech for Good, Ideas for India' event at Delhi on Monday. The event was organised with young students, entrepreneurs and developers. Jayant Sinha (Minister of State for Finance) was also attended the event and welcomed the India-focused innovation that Nadella offered. The event was intended to stimulate young students, entrepreneurs and developers in India to innovate for the nation. Nadella said the visit to had inspired him, with quickly changing scenery of 'Digital India'. Nadella started his topic with a quote by the Indian poet Ghalib, 'Hazaaron khwahishen aisi ho ke har khwahish pe dam nikle, Bohat niklay mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle' says about the dreams that were worth dying for. One of these dreams was to use digital technology as a force for good.

Nadella also said about the numerous transformations technology has seen in recent and the numerous transformations it would continue to see as it became more human-centric, from conversation as a platform to perfect interval actuality and machine learning. Nadella also bring out the youth aim development initiatives that the company had undertaken in the recent past in India, such as  The Imagine Cup, Academia Accelerator and YouthSpark. Redmond Giant at the event also exhibit two new innovations that are applicable for India.

Nadella also said these are Spot Garbage a real time garbage management system that won the Imagine Cup and uses machine learning and vision techniques and Life Saver an application that was developed as part of the Academia Accelerator programme. Sensitive to the symptoms of a heart attack, Lifesaver is meant to detect and alert users and their contacts about an forthcoming heart attack.
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India and Mexico have discussed ways to enhance co-operation in key areas of trade and energy with Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister) inviting Mexican participation in Govt innovative programmes like 'Make in India' and 'Digital India. Swaraj and her Mexican counterpart Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas also talked about ways and means of elevating the special relationship between the two countries and agreed to schedule the next meeting of the Joint Commission in Mexico in the second half of 2016. The visiting dignitary had called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. Swaraj mentioned that India would like Mexico s participation in ensuring value addition and greater use of technology in our agriculture and agro-processing sectors. The External Affairs Minister also conveyed government's interest in providing launch facilities for Mexican micro and nano satellites. The Mexican Foreign Minister renewed the invitation extended by the Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto for Modi to visit Mexico in the near future.
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Narendra Modi with Mark Zuckerberg
There is no connection between updating your profile picture for Digital India and registering support for Internet.org

The facebook users were started tricolour profile picture tool to support Digital India project facing criticism of promoting its controversial Internet.org programme, the social media giant on Tuesday said there was no connection between the two and that it will change the wrong code to eliminate any confusion.

Ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg put up a profile picture emblazoned with the Indian tricolour to show support for Mr. Modi’s Digital India initiative. Facebook also launched a tool to allow its users to change their profile pictures to support the Indian initiative.

However, a controversy brewed on social media with internet activists claiming that anyone changing their profile pictures using the tool was supporting Facebook’s Internet.org programme.

Blaming an engineer for the “mistake”, Facebook said the product in no way connects to or registers support for Internet.org

“There is absolutely no connection between updating your profile picture for Digital India and registering support for Internet.org,” Facebook said in a statement.
An engineer mistakenly used the words “Internet.org profile picture” as a shorthand name he chose for part of the code, it added.

“But this product in no way connects to or registers support for Internet.org. We are changing the code today to eliminate any confusion,” the statement said.
Facebook has continued to defend the initiative that offers free access to basic internet services to consumers.

India has over 8 lakh users under the Internet.org initiative.
Internet activists have Criticised the internet.org platform,which has recently been rebranded as free basis, to be in violation of the principle of net neutrality that is against any priority being accorded to an entity in internet traffic flow on account of payments to service providers like telecom companies.

In a recent interview, Mr. Zuckerberg said it is important to get the debate on net neutrality 'right' in india as the country is home to the world’s largest population of the unconnected.

He added that the regulatory framework needs to protect net neutrality for consumers and also ensure that companies are allowed to work on new models for stepping up internet access.

By: P.Satya Siva Anil