28-Aug-2018: Google’s Project Navlekha to help regional publications go online
Google has launched Project Navlekha to expand the reach of Indian content. The project would allow Indian vernacular news publishers to get their content online. Currently, the project has publishers from Delhi and its reach would soon be expanded across India.
The tech giant also announced a series of launches and expansion plans catering to the growing Indian vernacular users. Google Go, which has more tap options for first-time smartphone users, is now available in English and five other Indian languages -- Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali. It also has a playback option for a news feed in regional languages.
Given that one in 35 users use Google search to look up meanings, features have been added so that users can now view the meaning in both English and Hindi. Marathi and Tamil are coming up as well.
Google Assistant usage has tripled in India since last year and further features have been added to make it relevant to Indians.
This includes addition of Marathi language as the first of eight new Indian languages, as well as integration with local apps such as Airtel, Hello English and Where is my Train.
28-Jan-2017: Film Condition Assessment Project launched under NFHM
Film Condition Assessment, is the first phase of implementation of National Film Heritage Mission, NFHM. This is a one-of-its-kind project in the world, wherein the Government is spending huge amount of money towards the aspect of film preservation, in order to make rich filmic heritage available for the future generations to come. The condition of about 1,32,000 film reels at NFAI would be assessed and necessary measures would be taken to prolong their life. Each film reel will be tracked and monitored through RFID tagging, during the first phase.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is committed to safeguarding the country’s filmic and non-filmic heritage and is taking all necessary steps to preserve films and non-filmic material for posterity as per global standards.
Also, NFAI’s initiative of digitization of non-filmic material was launched. This is a step in the direction of Government’s Digital India initiative, wherein non-filmic heritage of the country would be digitized, restored and made available to the people at large.
NFAI has been the custodian of a large number of film ancillary material like posters, photos, song booklets, pamphlets, press clippings, slides / transparencies, glass negatives etc, which would be digitized and restored during the process.
NFHM is the prestigious mission of Government of India, for preservation, conservation, digitization and restoration of rich cinematic heritage of the country. National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is the nodal organization for the implementation of this project. Rs.597.41 crore has been allotted towards implementation of the project, which was kick-started with launch of the first phase of the mission, Film Condition Assessment.