SC directs release of 62-year-old Pak national from Delhi detention centre

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the release of a 62-year-old Pakistan national who has been languishing in a detention centre in New Delhi for more than seven years as Islamabad refused to......

UPI-like digital healthcare interface to go live this week

'United Health Interface is in line with UPI. UPI is a language of money transfer, similarly, UHI is a set of protocols, which is going to create a language of health service delivery' IMAGE:......

NRC, NPR, Aadhaar are part of huge surveillance plan

'This updated NPR database along with Aadhaar Number would become the mother database and can be used by various government departments...' the home ministry declared in July 2015.'UID/Aadhaar has......

Parliament passes Aadhaar amendment bill

Parliament on Monday passed an amendment bill which allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as proof of identity for users to open bank accounts and get mobile phone connections. The Aadhaar and......

The many shortcomings of Aadhaar

The CAG has shown up various weaknesses in the technology and delivery platforms of Aadhaar and suggested drastic improvements in their functioning to ensure that the second possibility, that of......

Plan to open a bank account? V-KYC will make it lot easy

Physical KYC takes anywhere between two to five working days to get done, V-KYC, only a few minutes. Soon, you may be able to open a bank account within minutes. With the Reserve Bank of India......

Income tax filing to be lot easier

Some of the policy measures announced are expected to go a long way in removing current challenges on financing faced by businesses and also increasing economic activity, especially in areas of......

Aadhaar: Private entities can't store individuals' data anymore

The amendment says that UIDAI can now give directions as it may consider necessary to any entity in the Aadhaar ecosystem Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The government on Wednesday......

'Getting an Olympic medal in athletics is my one-point agenda'

'We keep climbing one step and slipping three. In 2004, our relay team was 7th in the world. Then we slipped from there. Otherwise, today our 4x400 metres relay team would have been gearing for a......