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Odisha mulls onboarding water billers on BBPS to promote digital payments

National Payments Corporation of India has delivered a unified platform called BBPS, which aggregates multiple billers onto a single platform

Anti-profiteering authority asks inputs from Airtel, Indigo on GST benefits

The companies have been asked to submit the calculation within a fortnight, says a source

Implementing Srikrishna Panel will boost IT service sector: Mohandas Pai

All three big issues - data ownership and use, data privacy and data residency - have been addressed in the recommendations, says Pai

Logistics sector to see $500 bn annual investment by 2025: Prabhu

Prabhu said the ministry is developing a national logistics portal as a single window market place to link all stakeholders

India looking to compel e-commerce, social media cos to store data locally

The Indian e-commerce landscape is currently dominated by Flipkart that is in the process of being bought by US retail giant Walmart

Niti Aayog CEO says unequal growth holding India back. Here's what he means

India currently ranks 131 out of 188 countries on the HDI, lowest amongst BRICS nations in the most recent 2016 rankings

Govt considering single regulator for a better e-commerce sector: Report

The federal government has indicated it aims to remove the legal fragmentation governing the e-commerce sector, according to the Draft National Policy Framework on e-commerce

US to launch digital, energy, infra projects in Indo-Pacific; India to gain

The forum will introduce the economic and commercial elements of the US' whole-of-government Indo-Pacific strategy

Govt taking steps to ease crude import cost, focusing on biofuels: Pradhan

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister also said the government has notified the National Policy on Biofuels 2018

Recent GST rate cut is credit negative, revenue may take 0.08% hit: Moody's

GST rate cuts are credit negative because they will pressure the government's fiscal consolidation effort

Modi says India Inc exposure to agro sector just 1%, calls for huge jack up

PM says current level of investment is much lower than other economies and largely confined to tractor manufacturing and urea

Thanks to manufacturing, services sectors, Indian economy gathers momentum

Activity in India's dominant services industry rebounded in June from a mild contraction the prior month, expanding at its quickest pace in a year

Why it is difficult for Data Protection Act to co-exist with Aadhaar Act

The Srikrishna Committee was constituted during the pendency of the hearings in the constitutional challenges to the validity of the UID project

Govt to unveil new policy to make India defence manufacturing hub in 10 yrs

The draft policy says the licensing process for defence industries will be liberalised and the list of items requiring licences will be reviewed and pruned

Sub-standard products? New rules to fix onus on e-commerce platforms

All platforms must have a clear policy, prominently displayed, on delivery, return, exchange and refund

Data protection Bill: Adjudicating officer to decide compensation amount

To recover the miniscule amount, the telecom consumers may have to spend much more in taking legal recourse

Trai chief R S Sharma's details not leaked from Aadhaar servers: UIDAI

It said that factually anyone can google or visit other sources and find out Sharma's personal details without Aadhaar

RBI monetary policy: No urgency for back-to-back rate hikes, says expert

The fear of an adverse base effect driven rise in June CPI turned out to be pretty much a false alarm

PSUs start aggressive campaigns to publicise Modi govt's flagship schemes

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has issued a Rs 2.93 billion tender for outdoor publicity for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Capital expenditure by states set to cross Rs 5 trillion in 2018-19

Over the period, states have ramped up spending on the social sector, which has risen from 6.7 per cent of GDP in 2014-15 to 8 per cent in 2018-19