Navi Mumbai, also known by its former name New Bombay, is the largest planned city in the entire world, situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, Maharashtra in Konkan division, on the mainland of India. The city is divided into two parts, North Navi Mumbai and South Navi Mumbai, for the individual development of Panvel Mega City, which includes the area from Kharghar to Uran including Taloja and Old Panvel nodes. Navi Mumbai has a population... Show more of 1,119,477 as per the 2011 provisional census. It has an average city elevation of 14 meters, excluding forest area. In the late 1960s, Adi Kanga, a civil engineer, and some of his friends lamented that their city, the bustling Mumbai, was overpopulated. As the commercial capital of India, it was attracting large numbers of citizens, with which the available infrastructure could not cope. The group subsequently came up with the concept...
Mobile phone users are unlikely to get a respite from the menace of pesky commercial calls and text messages anytime soon as the majority of these come from unregistered telemarketers (UTMs) using personal mobile numbers that are almost impossible to monitor or bar, say senior telco executives.
The exercise of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to implement distributed ledger technology (DLT) to check fraudulent messages has so far been a failure since it has not been able to curb the menace, Route Mobile chief executive Rajdip Gupta told ET.
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