Aadhaar now has legal backing but it still faces challenges of privacy and data sharing
Liberalising regulations on satcom technology could attract billions of dollars in foreign investment.
"If I am using data to build intelligence and personalisation for you, then it's meaningful," says Ankur Warikoo, co-founder and CEO, Nearbuy.
Open loop pre-paid cards come with a two-factor authentication. One for ATMs and PoS transactions, and the other for online transactions
'Modi should not feel shy of proclaiming as the meaning of secularism regard for all religions in proportion to their numbers in tune with the spirit of democracy and adopting it as State policy,' says B S Raghavan.
50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.
Print's credibility, and its power to give readers control of how much time they spend, makes it a strong medium.
Physical assets such as gold and real estate have their own positives and negatives, while other financial assets such as mutual funds, stocks and bonds come with their pluses and minuses. Let us look at both options in a little more detail.
'Modi is likely to make more announcements to win or retain popularity, and put himself at the centre of things even more than now,' says T N Ninan.
The President talked about demonetisation, electoral reforms and disruptions in Parliament.
The ability to work flexibly and be judged on deliverables.
Are hacker collectives like Anonymous and Legion black hats or white hats, or do they lurk in the space between the two? Dhruv Munjal reports.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said universal connectivity and net neutrality "can and must" coexist.
PM extended some old schemes and finally said yes to one that was legally mandated for past 2 years.
With GDP down by 2 per cent, while 99 per cent of banned notes make way back to the banking system, whom did demonetisation benefit?
Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India.
We need to question ourselves if we are to be implicated as well in the institutional murder of Rohith and many other Rohiths, if not bodily but in spirit, because of our complicity in naturalising this elitist, exclusionary, discriminatory-to-the-core conception of education, says Kishalaya Mukhopadhyay.
The return of Indian Readership Survey numbers has met with a silent response.
The protection of individual security and privacy is critical to building safe online systems, say Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil.
Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an impassioned speech to the United States Congress.
The growing importance of all things culinary and the hunt for credible faces as brand ambassadors are adding more power to the chefs' elbow.
More and more companies are warming up to the idea of reverse mentoring.
From Padma Lakshmi to Kareena, this season offers plentiful reasons to make your jaws drop.
Car sales dipped by 2.55 per cent in October, as the festival season demand for auto remained in slow lane.
Why spend so much moolah on pursuing an MBA degree, when you can advance your career with these career options.
The data-generation ability of technology can not only provide real-time feedback on its return on investment but also evaluate education programmes.
'Students tell me their parents are fine with them either joining a start up or even starting one. This was not the case 10 years ago.'
A DoT panel has backed net neutrality and made some recommendations to push the cause
'We are by no means anywhere nearing having external financing difficulties or internal financing difficulties. The government's credit is solid, there is absolutely no difficulty for the government in borrowing and it is borrowing effectively from the public today in a fairly free public debt market,' the RBI governor tells a meeting in Washington, DC
Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar will not work.
Some initial reactions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight.
In his fifth address as President, Pranab Mukherjee asked authorities and institutions of the State to adhere to the 'dignity' in discharging their duties.
'People are more interested in India now than ever before.'
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India's exports to China stood at $7.56 billion during the period whereas the imports have jumped to $52.26 billion in April-January
'People do not want a 'maha milavat' (highly adulterated) government of those who assembled in Kolkata.'
It emerges that not only does the CIDR project fails the test of fairness, justness and reasonableness besides the test of not being fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary; it also fails the test of Arthashastra, Hadith and the Bible.
Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera shares his impressions from the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India's landmark artistic extravaganza.
'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.
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