Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the government-run telecoms service provider, in a bid to revamp its image in the eyes of customers, is likely to invest Rs. 400 crore to bring revolutionary changes in its landline services by the end of the current fiscal year 2012-2013.

ACCORDING TO media reports, BSNL is planning to appease its customers by introducing new-age facilities such as free call transfer from mobile phones and video calling. The Chairman-cum-Managing Director of BSNL RK Upadhyay has said that the process of converting all exchanges into Next Generation Network, a pre-requisite to revamp landline services, has been started.

In
Focus

“There are total of 37,639 exchanges out of which 30,008 exchanges are based on technology from C-DoT and rest from imported technology. Conversion of C-DoT exchanges in to NGNOn Tuesday, June 4, the news outlet Mail Online posted a headline and story which read:

“Dutch girl, 17, who was sexually abused at 11 and raped as a 14-year-old is legally euthanised [sic] at her home by ‘end-of-life’ clinic because she felt her life was unbearable due to depression.”

By the next day, the story had become an international controversy, with details of the teenager’s alleged euthanasia (or suicide aided by a physician) picked up by:

“The Sun, Daily Star, The Independent, UNILAD, Sky News, The Times, the Italian press, the Australian News Corp–owned by News.com.au, The New York Post, the Daily Beast, NBC–part-owned by Euronews, and The Washington Post.”

An anguished Dutch teenager, who was raped as a child, dies after euthanasia request https://t.co/DMO4OX49RB — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June