cyber cafe

The next time you visit the nearby cyber cafe, make sure to carry your identity card, says the IT ministry, which has come up with strict rules to check nefarious activities from cyber cafes operating across the country.

On October 1, the Chennai Corporation announced that people can walk into designated cyber cafes to get their voter ID cards. But names of these designated cyber cafes in the city have not been published by the civic authorities yet.

Calling the conditions laid by the police department, impractical, the association of cyber cafes in the city has demanded they be reviewed and relaxed.

The Noida police have issued an alert to all cyber cafes and buildings equipped with Wi-Fi to follow the rules drafted by the Union ministry of information and technology.

cyber cafes in the city can now be registered online.The information technology (IT) department, which has developed the software, is planning to make it operational in January.

In a fresh attempt to check rising incidents of cyber crime, the men-in-khaki on Sunday, asked cyber cafe owners to have open cabin inside the cafes, so that the cyber cafe staff could easily keep an eye on the visitors.

MUMBAI: The city police and internet gurus are planning measures to prevent mischief at the ubiquitous cyber cafe.

MUMBAI: The city police and Internet gurus are planning measures to prevent mischief at the ubiquitous cyber cafe.

Efforts by the Pune police to regulate and monitor the functioning of cyber cafes in the city has met with a cold response.

Surat police has lodged a complaint against seven hotels/guest houses and four cyber cafes which have not installed CCTVs and kept records of visitors.

The government’s decision to declare the results of HSC exams online proved to be a gold mine of sorts for cyber cafe owners in the state who raked in more than Rs 2 crore in a single day.

As part of their drive to curb the misuse of cyber cafes, officials in the last two weeks raided 30 cyber cafes and fined the owners for flouting rules framed by the state government.

To ensure compliance of the directions issued by deputy commissioner Brijendra Singh under Section 144 of CrPC for regulating cyber cafes, a checking of these outlets was carried out in the south sub-division on Friday

All 24 cyber cafes at major railway stations across the country are being closed down after failing to earn expected proceeds, a development that might hamper the Railways' attempt to woo private firms for infrastructure projects.