Telecom Snapshots -

(From lef t): Justice B.N. Srikrishna, Head, Srikrishna Committee; Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister, Electronics and Information Technology and Law and Justice; and Aruna Sundarajan, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), at the release of the “Data Protection Framework” in Delhi

TRAI’s Dr R.S. Sharma, Chairman (second from left), being welcomed by (from left) R.R. Tiwari, Legal Adviser; Sunil Kumar Gupta, Secretary; and Sanjeev Sharma, Administrative Adviser, on his re-appointment as Chairman

(From lef t): Anupam Srivastava, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL); Manoj Sinha, Minister of State for Communications; Aruna Sundararajan; and Sujata Ray, Director, Human Resources Department, BSNL, at the launch of BSNL’s internet telephony service, Wings.

Ravi Shankar Prasad addresses the gathering at the inauguration of the Sof tware Technology Parks of India Electronics and IT Enclave and Secondary Data Centre of the National Data Repository, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, Deputy Managing Director (Strategy) and Chief Digital Officer, State Bank of India, and Alok Agarwal, Chief Financial Officer, Reliance Industries Limited, exchange MoUs to strengthen the digital partnership between the two companies

(From left) B.S. Bhati, Secretary, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC); Dr R.M. Chaturvedi, Deputy Director General (CS), DoT; Dr Anusheel Munshi, Head of Department, Radiation Oncology, Manipal Hospitals; Sunil Kumar, Director General (Telecom), DoT; Shivendra Bhatnagar, Senior Deputy Director General (DGT), DoT; Dr Vivek Tandon, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, AIIMS; and N.K. Chhoker, DDG (C), Delhi LSA, DoT, at an awareness workshop on EMF Emissions & Telecom Towers organised by DoT and NDMC

(From left) Abhijit Lahiri, Chief of Transformation, Tech Mahindra; Nitin Karmalkar, Vice Chancellor, Savitribai Phule Pune University; Rajendra Jagtap, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pune Smart City; and Manojit Bose, Chief Knowledge Officer, Pune Smart City, at the launch of the first Smart City Hackathon for Developers and Startups across India, at the Pune University campus