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Telangana minister for IT K.T. Rama Rao along with GIST Catalyst Pitch competition grand champion Ajaita Shah at GES2017. (Photo: Asian Age)

Rajasthani entrepreneur pips all in Catalyst Pitch

Frontier Markets brings clean energy to poor families who are facing deadly cooking and lighting facilities.

01 Dec 2017 3:08 AM

The Centre, in its move towards a “digital economy” may soon ban cheques. (Photo: Pixabay)

No more cheque books! Modi govt may ban them to boost digital economy

This move may cause severe inconvenience for traders, 95 per cent of whose transactions are via cheques and cash.

22 Nov 2017 11:06 AM

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo: PTI)

Cash comes at a cost, nation moving towards digital economy: Jaitley

Jaitley also launched two products of the PNB -- Rupay Credit Card and e-Rupaya.

06 Nov 2017 6:38 PM

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.

4G coverage to beat 2G, data oxygen of digital economy: Ambani

At India Mobile Congress, RIL chairman said ubiquitous, affordable, high-speed data was necessary.

27 Sep 2017 2:54 PM

Union Minister for Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad (Photo: PTI)

Digital economy to offer 5-7 million job opportunities: Prasad

Digital economy is growing fast and by 2020 it is expected to provide job opportunities to about 50 to 70 lakh youth.

15 Sep 2017 6:40 PM

Consumers around the world are busy enjoying various free Web services, like browsing, social networking, e-commerce, e-payment, ridesharing, music, movie, news etc., either in standalone apps or bundled up together.

In a digital democracy, who owns our data?

A private bill on data protection introduced in Parliament by BJD MP Jay Panda, too, spells out the need for “data portability”.

01 Sep 2017 12:08 AM

Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, mobile ushered in a social revolution: Jaitley

27 Aug 2017 12:17 PM

Sources said that as of now there is no clarity on the report on scrapped currency notes, but it is amply clear that the standing committee, lead by Congress MP M. Veerappa Moily, will not be able to submit it by August 11. (Photo: PTI)

Panel report on old notes caught in delays

Govt’s inability to provide data hits August11 deadline.

08 Aug 2017 6:35 AM

Demonetisation and government's initiative to promote use of debit and credit cards accelerated growth of digital payment.

Digital transactions shot up due post demonetisation: report

Growth of digital payment reached Rs 70,000 crore level in seven months, said the report.

13 Jul 2017 5:23 PM

Outstanding stock of currency in circulation, which hovered around 12 per cent of GDP during 2011-12 to 2015-16, declined to 8.8 per cent during 2016-17.

Digital payments rose 55 per cent in FY'17: Watal

Overall digital payments recorded a compounded average annual growth rate of 28 per cent from 2011-12 to 2015-16.

03 Jul 2017 3:13 PM

Google’s propensity to project its ads on page one and push rivals down to page four does seem to be stretching to the point of killing the opposition.

Old world vs new economy

The world is still on a learning curve when it comes to the digital economy.

30 Jun 2017 12:33 AM

Indian dream of USD 1 trillion digital economy, govt to frame 3 new policies

The government will come out with three new policies, including electronics manufacturing and data protection.

16 Jun 2017 7:18 PM

Make India $1 trillion digital economy in 4 yrs: Prasad to industry

Indian IT sector has crossed Rs 10 lakh crore in revenue and exports have crossed Rs 7.5 lakh crore.

16 Jun 2017 1:37 PM

Demonetisation led to digitisation and growth in tax base: Jaitley

A message is loud and clear that it’s no longer safe to deal substantially in cash.

10 Jun 2017 10:47 AM

On the surface, this transition may not appear to be very profoundly deep.

The challenges for India’s digital revolution

Migrating from a cash economy to a digital economy will demand a recast of the entire mindset for consumers.

08 Jun 2017 12:57 AM

Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal.

Digitisation will curb shadow economy: Meghwal

GST will replace an array of central and state levies with a national sales tax.

14 May 2017 5:03 PM

The new Act has made it a right to have access to faster internet connections with speeds of at least 10Mbps.

The Digital economy Act makes fast internet everyone's right

UK’s Digital Economy Act has employed certain mandatory rules for various digital activities.

03 May 2017 7:05 PM

The NTPC house journal has been digitised and an App is being developed for internal communication.

NTPC embarks on becoming completely digital

This initiative will cover all NTPC projects and offices and will be rolled out in phased manner.

30 Apr 2017 2:21 PM

Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Tax compliance a must while pushing digital economy: Prasad

Tax practitioners and tax administrators will have to understand tempo of this change.

28 Apr 2017 5:24 PM

This will aid our vastly spread customers with or without internet access to recharge conveniently.

Dish TV partners with ICICI Bank for digital payments

This alliance will drive higher customer adoption and allow them to be a part of the digital economy.

21 Feb 2017 4:06 PM

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