Out of around 80 million accounts that were analysed, there were 10 million records with only names and no other details about the subscribers, including their date of joining, date of birth and father's name, among others, in the EPFO's records.
'While China has been hiking its defence spending, India has done precious little in implementing the Manmohan Singh government's decision of raising a 90,000-strong China-centric Mountain Strike Corps,' says Rajeev Sharma.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
Recent statistics show that the situation is no different across the country with several hospitals lacking the infrastructure to manage a breakout of a blaze.
The World Bank said improved infrastructure, specifically rural electrification, has had far-ranging effects
Breastfeeding lowers chances of being a victim to cancer and circulatory diseases. Among children, it prevents diarrhoea and pneumonia.
The rupee's fall against the dollar is bad news for companies which have increased their exposure to foreign currency loans in recent years.
The co-founder of Feeding India is changing the way India deals with wasted food.
'What is forgotten but is actually as important for a society's long run success is morality.' 'Morals and trust are the nuts and bolts of an economy.' 'Without those you can get short run success, but not long-run development.'
Besides the Joint Entrance Exam that we all know of, here are some more that are equally competitive.
If government statistics are at variance with private data flow, chances are high that the latter presents a picture closer to reality.
'The Congress shall have to take some brave-tough decisions to give a new social face to the party and its leadership composition,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden speech from Red Fort last Independence Day outlined some grand programmes. Shehzad Poonawalla does a quick check on the progress made.
'There appears to be in the Indian polity a link between being Single and being of prime ministerial timber. It is a trend, a preponderance -- not a statistical verity,' says Dr Shashi K Pande.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
If people can lobby me for making changes in policies that goes against the country's interest, I won't keep myself in this position, says the vice chairman of NITI Aayog.
'Today, everybody is on the computer, everybody on the mobile.' 'There is very less physical activity.' 'The treatment most effective in reducing heart disease is exercise.' 'It is very, very, important.'
Finance Commission has got new team who are committed to growth initiatives.
'It is the regional parties and their leaders who are the ones we have to watch.'
Go beyond your college classroom. Take part in fests. Pursue an internship, says Abhishek Ajmera.
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
The Sensex closed down 308 points at 24,894 and the Nifty has lost 96 points at 7,559.
Most mainstream researchers agree that good governance is a necessary condition for growth.
In January this year, Tata Sons invested an additional Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) in Tata Teleservices which was used to repay loans of the wireless telephony company.
Will Arundhati Bhattacharya be the RBI's first woman governor? Or will Urjit Patel succeed Raghuram Rajanas RBI governor when his term ends on September 4?
Is India witnessing jobless growth or is there actually no issue with employment? The real story is between the first two suggesting that though there is sufficient employment, the challenge is to create well-paying quality jobs, says Amitabh Kant.
It is important to understand that debt investors are a conservative lot and, in general, most such investments are hedged out of foreign exchange risk to simply earn an arbitrage profit, rather than carry the risk to possibly increase their yield.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday addressed the nation on the eve of the 68th Independence Day.
The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.
Bringing in the untapped informal sector into the formal one will benefit business.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
'The economy may not improve unless you admit there are some problems.'
Sensex falls at close; metals, banks perform well.
Gimmicks such as appointing high-profile brand ambassadors like Sachin Tendulkar will not work.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
Annabel Mehta, Sachin Tendulkar's mother-in-law, has dedicated her life to working with the Beautiful People of the other half of Mumbai without whom the city would neither exist nor thrive. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel met the amazing lady who was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for her service to underprivileged communities.
'As India progresses and takes an increasingly hardline approach to Pakistani hostility, the young and restless population of Pakistan, sooner than later, will demand 'Gazwa e Hind' (conquest of India),' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
In the heat and dust of a Baramati rally with Supriya Sule.
How did the newly anointed heritage city bag the title and is it ready for the expected rush of tourists?
'There are fossils to indicate that there has been a gradual evolution of various body parts leading to very complex organisms like vertebrates, apes and humans.'
