Digital Life

Submitting a life certificate? Aadhaar lets you do it from your home

With Aadhaar-based face ID now live, submitting the 2025 digital life certificate has become simpler, here's what's changing and how the process works from start to finish.

International Yoga Day: Wrist pain from screen overuse? Try these stretches

International Day of Yoga 2025: Easy yoga stretches to reduce wrist strain, improve flexibility, and support long-term upper body alignment-no mat needed

Brain rot and screen overload: How your phone may be wrecking your focus

Endless scrolling may feel harmless, but experts warn it can erode attention span, memory, and mental clarity-here's how to recognise and reverse the damage

Life certificate submission deadline missed? What pensioners must do next

Failure to submit a Life Certificate by deadline may lead to a suspension of pension payments starting December

Digital Life Certificate Campaign 3.0:How to get Jeevan Pramaan via face ID

Pensioners who are unable to access the digital platform can choose the traditional way to submit their documents

Digi Yatra's international pilot project likely in June: CEO Khadakbhavi

Currently, the Digi Yatra facility is available for domestic passengers at 24 airports across the country

How to get a Digital Life Certificate via face verification?

Face authentication allows pensioners to submit their life certificates from home, eliminating the need to visit a bank or pension disbursal office

Over 2.1 mn central govt pensioners used digital life certificates: Centre

Over 21 lakh central government pensioners have used digital life certificate (DLC) facility, the Centre said on Wednesday. The biometric-enabled digital service does away with the requirement for pensioners of the central or state governments or any other government organisation to submit their physical life certificate every November in order to ensure continuity of their pension. The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) under the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions had launched a nationwide campaign to promote DLCs for central government pensioners. All the registered pensioners' associations, pension disbursing banks, central ministries and Central Government Health Scheme centres had been directed to promote DLCs by organising special camps, DoPPW said in a statement. The face authentication technology was launched by Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh. From November 1-15, special awareness camps were organised in ...

Proposed Digital India Act aims to make internet free, safe space: Can it?

The proposed law is supposed to be modelled on similar regulations in Singapore, Australia and Europe's General Data Protection Regulation

Harvesting digital produce

SC's judgment could make you own your personal avatars as you do in Second Life virtual world