The government aims to cover around 60 million people in the age category, irrespective of income, with an assured 5 lakh annually to be shared within the family.
After a gap of more than three years, the central government has agreed to resume the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) works in West Bengal with immediate effect, but subject to mandatory adherence to stringent conditions. These include a prohibition on any work valued at more than 20 lakh, compulsory 100 per cent electronic know-your-customer (eKYC) verification of all workers, and mandatory pre-estimation field visits for all works before they are undertaken.
A phone number and e-mail are often enough for a fraudster to trick a lender into pulling your report and disbursing a loan.
While UIDAI has given a nod for face authentication, banks need to join the process.
Cyber fraudsters have duped Delhi residents of nearly Rs 1,000 crore so far this year, with investment scams, digital arrests and boss scams emerging as the most common cybercrimes.
Credit card frauds are on an upswing these days. How can you make sure your credit card is not misused?
When the government chooses to either ignore or use identity documents only when it suits them, it shakes people's sense of stability, notes Shyam G Menon.
Organise your PAN, Form 16, Form 26AS, AIS, and all other proofs before e-filing.
'Most tax notices arise not from wrongdoing, but from unintentional mismatch or ignorance.'
Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm may deliberately delay transactions, issue fraud alerts, and require an extra layer of user confirmation before processing any transactions that are likely to be classified as fraudulent.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday continued its searches at places linked to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara as part of the probe into alleged gold smuggling-linked money laundering case against Kannada actress Ranya Rao and others, official sources said.
'LAP is suited for borrowers with a steady income, sound repayment discipline, and a clear repayment plan.'
Gaming platforms will also be required to display a warning after a certain time of usage to reduce the risk of addiction.
An hour-long disruption could affect around 40 million UPI transactions.
If you ever face a situation where your card transaction is declined, it is advisable to call your bank and check with them for the cause. In most cases, unless it's a fraudulent issue, the problems will be resolved on the phone.
What is digital house arrest? It is a tactic cybercriminals use to confine victims to their homes and scam them, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
To validate and continue using the existing PAN cards, citizens will have to link them to Aadhaar. Or else, they will be permitted to use Aadhaar instead for filing returns and while making other high-value transactions, specified under the Income Tax Act.
It is possible that this experiment might see a rise in the Union government's cost incurred on tax concessions, without any increase in the tax base or coverage, says A K Bhattacharya.
'It is common knowledge that cash is anonymous.' 'When demonetisation was implemented, one of the intended objectives was to put identity on the cash holdings in the economy.' 'With the return of Rs 15.28 lakh crore in the formal banking system, the almost entire cash holding of the economy now has an address.' 'It is no more anonymous,' says Arun Jaitley.
Uber had run into trouble with the RBI over the two-payment process
Instead of relying on technology that is not in their control, businesses should stop using SMS based OTPs and start using other software-based or hardware-based token authentication, which are in their control, says Venkata Satish Guttula.
Customers have other options available to them to do low-value transactions, if wallets start mandating full KYC and would switch to those.
Governor also says two-stage verification for card transactions might go; RBI in process of setting up IT arm
Radio taxi service provider Meru Cabs is planning to put in place the next level of driver verification, one liked to biometric identification tool Aadhaar.
With big data analyses, your investments, spends and big purchases are being tracked more closely now by the income tax department.
Why various loans are disbursed differently...
Famous and long believed to be trusted Indian brands have wilted against foreign brands, says Mohan Guruswamy.
Khan in his maiden speech at the 74th UNGA session suggested that nuclear-armed Pakistan may not have much of a choice if a conventional war were to break out between Pakistan and India which he described as a country seven-times its size.
The official twists and turns have raised questions on the government's credibility and its ability to pull the nation out of the demonetisation quagmire. To keep up with the new rules, the government has issued an updated FAQ on demonetisation.
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'India is doing better than when we took office 17 months ago'.
Home-grown taxi booking companies which have a business model similar to Uber's might have stricter security norms imposed on them.
Until your home loan is sanctioned, some silly mistakes on your part before making the first move can derail the most important goal of your life.
Each problem is discussed in detail and appropriate remedies are mentioned along with it.
One way to bring down the cost is selling off old furniture.
The protection of individual security and privacy is critical to building safe online systems, say Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil.
'The most valuable personal sensitive information of present and future citizens has been made available to foreign data firms and governments and non-State actors for all time to come,' says Gopal Krishna.
A review of key pronouncements he made in his first Independence Day Speech on August 15, 2014.
Over two years since the Nirbhaya rape shook the nation women in New Delhi feel no safer than they did before. With safety apps to self-defence classes on the rise, Ritika Bhatia takes a look at what working women in Delhi are doing to keep themselves safe.
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