Aadhaar-related schemes and the Aadhaar Act exist on the assumption that Right to Privacy is not a Fundamental Right.
Microsoft India's chairman Bhaskar Pramanik tells Business Standard how India will be at the forefront of the company's 'mobile first, cloud first' strategy.
Exchanges believe its legal status may now change, with the government pushing for digitised transactions.
The sharing agreement will provide more bandwidth for RJIL to provide its high-speed 4G services.
GST will also make our exports more competitive and also provide a level playing field to domestic industry to compete with imports, the President said.
Payments banks will mainly deal in remittance services and accept deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh.
'At Snapdeal, our aim is to become the best-in-class technology company.'
The 16-digit randomly generated number by the Aadhaar system was supposed to be introduced by the UIDAI on March 1 and mandatorily deployed by companies using Aadhaar by June 1.
The Kolkata-based firm already has a presence in 22 states with over 2,000 branches and 5.9 million borrowers.
The application makes it easy for IBM partners and clients like Polaris to build an entirely new class of cloud-based social business apps.
'My simple instruction to every IBM salesperson is, "When you go to the customer, use less of this (he points to his mouth) and more of this (ear)".' 'Talk less, listen more",' Karan Bajwa tells Raghu Krishnan.
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The development comes after the National Democratic Alliance government this year broke a 92-year-old tradition of presenting a separate Railway Budget, according to suggestions made by the Debroy committee.
India is on track to register its entire 1.25 billion population using its Aadhaar digital ID.
'The more people get tested, the more people will come under isolation. So the spread will get limited with testing.'
We are certainly for digitisation. I do not have opinion about demonetisation. I still don't, says Bill Gates.
'In the US, they have created a blacklist for fliers. We are trying to do the same here.'
All you have to do is visit www.digitalindia.gov.in
According to a nation-wide survey on financial behaviour, India has the highest account dormancy rate even more than countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It is mind-boggling to find our prime minister putting exports on the back-burner, says Jayanta Roy.
'China's excessive military aid to Pakistan is the real elephant in the room as far as Sino-Indian relations are concerned. India should be confident enough to accept a degree of closeness between China and Pakistan, since China may wish to use this link for its foray into the Muslim world.' 'But the Chinese must be realistic enough to know that as time passes, the tactic of using Pakistan as a proxy to check India will yield diminishing returns. The US tried it for 60 years but failed, so will China,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
With more and more youngsters preferring to shop online, the credit appetite has surged.
In a breakthrough, scientists in the UK have achieved the "fastest ever" broadband speeds of 1.4 terabits per second - enough to transmit 44 high-definition movies at once.
In a bid to gain a bigger share of the customer's wallet, banks are ramping up their cross-selling initiatives.
While Indians are increasingly using mobile platforms and technology for various financial transactions and purchases like bill payments, ticket bookings, entertainment, travel and banking transactions, cross border mobile remittance is yet to see the light of the day.
Bihar became the first non-NDA state and overall second after the BJP-ruled Assam to pass GST bill.
Cashless transactions need ubiquitous connectivity, which we don't have. And connectivity needs political and administrative convergence, says Shyam Ponappa.
It is advisable to stick to mid-caps with sustainable financial metrics rather than those offering the promise of faster growth.
The 'Make in India' vision cannot survive in the long-term without concrete measures to build a concurrent 'Create in India' movement.
'Some cases do not get a single hearing for 6 to 8 months, while some have been pending for as long as 8 years.'
IT industry hiring big time, but quality concern persists.
'The attacks made clear to all the Gulf States that Pakistan was the nursery and sanctuary of extremist violence and that this violence threatened all the countries in the region.'
'If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous one and the most connected.'
A company claims to run ads on Facebook where students are encouraged to provide their details to get help from career counsellors.
Infrastructure for all-IP next-generation, wireless broadband infrastructure across all the 29 states in India is being laid, says Mukesh.
The government, in February, had released the draft national e-commerce policy proposing setting up a legal and technological framework for restrictions on cross-border data flow and also laid out conditions for businesses regarding collection or processing of sensitive data locally and storing it abroad.
1mg has made buying medicines easy and it aims to do more in online health care.
Why India is an FDI magnet. The country satisfies several reconditions to attract FDI.
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If we can come up with ways of sharing property rights on the internet, why not do something similar in urban spaces, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'You cannot say that I have blocked a thousand Web sites (operated by IS) and so I am happy.' 'They will immediately open another thousand such Web sites.'
Microsoft has spent close to $4.5 bn in setting up 19 data centres.
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