Bengaluru: Government to provide free high-speed internet for one hour everyday to residents
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan on Wednesday spoke about the State government’s plan to provide free internet to people in Bengaluru city by installing WI-FI hotspots at different parts of the city.
Speaking to reporters in city he said, “The government is planning to install 4000 WI-FI hotspots across the city as a part of Bengaluru smartcity project. This is a Rs. 100 crore project and is also part of Digital Karnataka and Digital India initiatives.”
Narayan also noted that the provided wifi will boast a speed of 1 gigabyte and the installation process of towers and hotspots will be done with assistance from BBMP.
He also noted that the project will be implemented in next nine months.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
