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With cyber sovereignty at stake, it is high time India brings in uniform cybersecurity law
India’s digital transformation cannot be fashioned on the foundations of decades-old legal infrastructure like the Information Technology Act 2000 and the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 among others

Promote digitisation in govt functioning: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann
Punjab government has been working towards promotion of digitalisation to bring public services at the doorsteps of the people, according to an official spokesperson

Paytm helps 2.5 lakh FASTag users with fast redressal mechanism to get a refund for wrong toll charges
According to Paytm Payments, the company has won 82 percent of cases on behalf of its FASTag users.

Mindtree Limited partners with the Nordex Group in a bid to drive digital transformation
Mindtree Limited and The Nordex Group partner to upscale their company's digital transformation and growth plans respectively.

CAIT backs Indian e-tailers conforming to local laws, helping digitise grocery stores; all set to launch national e-commerce portal
CAIT said India is one of the largest consumer markets of the world and up-gradation and modernisation of existing retail trade of India has always been the mission of CAIT.

RBI's new motto after demonetisation: Cash is king, but digital is divine; digital payments witness 61% CAGR growth
With 'cash is king, but digital is divine' motto, the Reserve Bank on Monday said its endeavour will be to make digital payments a divine experience for the users after being buoyed by over Rs 3.5 lakh crore reduction in the notes in circulation (NIC) post demonetisation

Traders' body CAIT alleges $1 bn not investment but promotional finance to Amazon India to crush retail trade
Traders' body CAIT on Wednesday alleged that the $1 billion investment announced by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is "promotional finance" to Amazon India to crush retail trade and encourage predatory pricing and deep discounting

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos commits $1 bn investment, to digitise over 10 million small businesses in India
Amazon.com Inc chief Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced $1 billion (over Rs 7,000 crore) investment in India to help bring small and medium businesses online and committed to exporting $10 billion worth of India-made goods by 2025

Digital economy: Love of cash hinders govt's objectives; currency in circulation rises 17% to Rs 21 lakh cr post-demonetisation
The demonetisation got rid of old 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes and Modi said that would boost the country’s digital economy, unearth unaccounted wealth and reduce the use of cash.

Demonetisation 3rd anniversary: Banning high-value notes failed to meet objectives, but digitisation may check black money generation
The defenders argued that demonetisation would help digitise the economy and make future black money generation difficult as there would be an audit trail all the time.

Digitisation push: Aadhaar enabled transactions cross 200 mn milestone on NPCI platform during July
The umbrella body for digital transactions, NPCI, on Monday said that Aadhaar enabled Payment System (AePS) crossed the milestone of over 200 million transactions during July this year

NEFT New Fund Transfer Timings 2019: RBI allows round-the-clock payments from December to promote digitisation
The RBI has decided to allow round-the-clock fund transfers through NEFT from December this year in order to promote digital transactions

With the digitisation of India, there needs to be a focus on cybersecurity
Digital infrastructure, because of its connectivity to the global communications network, is vulnerable to threats.

Learning changes, one byte at a time
Digital preservation and translation of manuscripts has expanded and democratised access

Yes Bank shares plunge 30% after weak Q4 results; Jet Airways exposure hurts lender
Yes Bank is part of a group of lenders to debt-ridden Jet Airways, which was forced to ground all flights earlier this month after it ran out of funds

Demonetisation good move to boost economy though people faced hardships, says HDFC MD Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri also backed the Narendra Modi government's endeavour to promote digitisation in the banking system

Rising hopes on economic growth, low inflation likely to result in salary hikes of 9.7% across sectors this year
The differentiation in salary increases further widened this year to 1.9 times between top performer and average performer where the overall the top performer is expected to get an average salary hike of 15.6 percent.

Digital mode of transactions will take some time to gain currency; domination of cash will persist
The number of Rs 20 lakh crore may look high, but if one looks at the buildup of cash in circulation over the years, the picture is actually not very shocking.

Digital platform helps Maharashtra save Rs 12k cr in farm loan waiver, says CM Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra is launching a programme which is a virtual life cycle management for every farmer.

Schindler wants to make India its manufacturing and R&D hub; plans to invest in digitisation, data analytics
Schindler, which is present in the country since the past 20 years, also plans to invest significantly in digitisation and data analytics.