Extending Aadhaar to more areas is a hare-brained idea, it should be dropped
The insistence of Aadhaar on purchase of vehicles, landline and mobile phone connections and demat accounts is seriously violative of privacy and has enormous potential for misuse. The proposal to...
View ArticleWith just a year to go, L&T chief AM Naik decides to donate 75% of his total...
Even before the latest announcement, Naik was already into the art of giving business, and he has donated Rs 125 crore to charitable initiatives since 1995 The post With just a year to go, L&T...
View ArticleRatan Tata, Nilekani, Vijay Kelkar team up for Avanti Finance, a tech-based...
The initiative aims to leverage on the social sector presence of Tata Trusts and also the rapidly evolving India Stack (JanDhanAadharMobile), UPI and payments bank ecosystem The post Ratan Tata,...
View ArticleStart-ups in an exciting phase, can take long-term risk with Indian money:...
On several start-ups shutting shop, Nilekani said it's the nature of the business The post Start-ups in an exciting phase, can take long-term risk with Indian money: Nilekani appeared first on Firstpost.
View ArticleDemonetisation will make India data rich, make it difficult to do ‘dishonest...
There will be some amount of "short term pain" in the coming weeks on account of demonetisation The post Demonetisation will make India data rich, make it difficult to do ‘dishonest things’, says...
View ArticleUS-based handset maker, InFocus to launch Aadhaar-enabled smartphone
InFocus has been awarded STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) from the Indian government and the company plans to launch more device supporting Aadhaar authentication in the future....
View Article‘Aadhaar’ man Nandan Nilekani roped in to steer PM Modi’s digital payments drive
The ex-Infosys top honcho had openly supported the government's demonetisation move, saying the economic slowdown will be short-term in nature and the country's growth would soon bounce back on the...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Can the Centre do more to encourage digitisation of financial...
Over the past month or so, the main topic of national conversation has been about the demonetisation issue. Every citizen is now an ‘expert’, and is not reluctant to air his/her views. Each political...
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