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The positive sentiments in equity could be attributed to a likely strong rebound in corporate earnings over the next 2 quarters and easing of global oil prices providing a relief on the macro front, Ajay Bodke CEO and Chief Portfolio Manager PMS at Prabhudas Lilladher said.

India:Protecting personal details in Aadhaar

Mar 17, 2018 | Data, Risk Management

Emphasising that just like any other identity document, Aadhasar too is not a confidential document, UIDAI argued that mere knowledge about someone’s Aadhaar card is not sufficient to impersonate that person asbiometric authentication is needed to establish ones identity.

India:26,500 students committed suicide in 2014-16: Govt tells RS

Mar 14, 2018 | Data, Risk Management

In 2016, the highest number of student suicides (1,350) took place in Maharashtra, followed by West Bengal (1,147), Tamil Nadu (981) and Madhya Pradesh (838), Ahir said replying to a written question.

Prices of 851 essential drug formulations cut in past 2 year: Government

Mar 13, 2018 | Data, Health

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority also slashed prices of 65 products ranging between 25-30 per cent, 46 products between 30-35 per cent, 24 products in the range of 35-40 per and 59 products over 40 per cent.

India: By 2025, digital transactions in India could be worth $1 trn a year

Mar 13, 2018 | Data, Technology

“Flexible, scalable and reliable technology will be critical to the future of payments in India as the market continues to experience incredible growth,” said Manish Patel, Vice President, ACI Worldwide.

Airlines reported over 24,700 technical snags in 2017: Government

Mar 13, 2018 | Data

Out of last year’s total, Jet Airways planes had 9,689 snags, followed by SpiceJet which reported 4,903 snags and Air India group at 4,563. GoAir reported 1,888 snags, AirAsia (1,367), Vistara (1,225), Blue Dart (793), IndiGo (340) and Zoom Air (23), the data showed

Maharashtra using drones to map villages and towns

Mar 11, 2018 | Data

Drones will capture the entire area in a few minutes and it can be downloaded on state provided software. It will help the revenue officials identify the open spaces, government and private land and quickly match them with the available records.
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16.65 crore PAN, 87.79 crore bank accounts linked to Aadhaar: Government

Mar 9, 2018 | Data

“As on March 5, number of Aadhaar cards linked with PAN is 16,65,82,421. Further, as on March 2, 87.79 crore current accounts and savings accounts have been linked with Aadhaar,” Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

India-So far 80% bank accounts, 60% mobile connections linked with Aadhaar

Mar 4, 2018 | Data

Out of the 1.09 billion banks accounts, almost 870 million have been seed with Aadhaar, said the official of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which issues the national ID number.Of this, 58 0 million have already been verified while in case of the rest the authentication process is underway with the documents that have been submitted to the banks, the official said.