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LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh leads the nation by becoming the first state to be all set for issuing the multipurpose national identity card. A pilot project started in 2003 for this purpose is about to be completed in Nautanwa tehasil of Maharajganj district. The project was conceived at the behest of the Centre under its scheme to establish a national register of Indian citizens. The multipurpose identity cards are important from nation's security point of view as it would help police in identifying infiltrators, criminals, smugglers and terrorists from across the border as every valid resident of the country would be carrying the identity card.

Internet users may soon get to call landlines or mobile phones from their computers. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday recommended allowing Internet telephony on conventional phone networks, a move that would add to technological convergence, stoke competition and, possibly, make call rates drop further. Under existing norms, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a computer to a mobile or a fixed phone. The regulator wants the restriction to go. Internet Service Providers stand to gain, as would business process outsourcing companies and offshore back offices, if the government accepts the recommendation. "This is a welcome step particularly for the Indian IT-BPO industry," said the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or NASSCOM. The move comes at a time when the outsourcing industry is battling to keep costs under check in the face weakening demand and dwindling orders from its most important client country -