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Need integrated digital platform for trade logistics, says Bibek Debroy

Bibek Debroy, who is Chief of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has also flagged the need for an integrated logistics policy

Branch additions drop as Modi govt's digital push changes banking sector

RBI's May 2017 guidelines shifted the focus from branches to banking outlets

Openness and national security can go together: Narendra Modi

We in India, give primacy to the human face of technology, and are using it to improve what I call, 'ease of living', says PM Modi

Facebook launches digital, start-up training hubs to aid small biz in India

It plans to train more than half a million people in the country by 2020 through these online training hubs

Digital India to drive FMCG consumption worth $45-bn by 2020: Google report

Online consumers spend twice more on FMCG purchases than offline consumers

Modi's digital payment push is struggling to take off in rural India: Audit

An internal NCPI-commissioned study shows that adoption of BHIM and BHIM-Aadhaar are being hindered by implementation and design issues

From skills to sustainable livelihoods

The process of creating aspiration and putting youths on a skilling path has to be designed and executed in new formats

Digital India: iSpirt, Dalberg launch contest to build apps on India Stack

India Stack uses Aadhaar as a base for verification of an individual and delivers a set of services

PM Modi's Digital India intiative: Work in progress

During 3 years of Modi govt, the push for 'going digital' has been all pervasive

English rendering of Mann Ki Baat address by PM on All India Radio, 30 April 2017

English rendering of Mann Ki Baat address by PM on All India Radio, 30 April 2017

Digital India: SBI targets transactions worth Rs 1 lakh crore

Online SBI, the bank's web banking platform, is the fifth most visited financial site globally

Shaping India's future

Digital leap or social regression?

Digital India: Soon, enjoy wi-fi services at 500 remote railway stations

Christened as Railwire Saathi, the Wi-Fi kiosks will function like a PCO for Digital India

PM Modi, India's social media star, struggles to get government online

Narendra Modi is the most followed world leader on social media

Modi's Digital India dream souring? Value of digital transactions recedes

This puts in peril the government's target to achieve 25 billion digital transactions in 2017-18

They learn and earn online. Meet the Google girls of rural India

They learn from YouTube and pay via PayTm, reports Tech In Aisa

Internet to be available in 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by 2018-end: Govt

One lakh gram panchayats are to be connected by underground OFC by March this year

Poor response to India BPO scheme may dampen Digital India Programme

Of 48,300 seats planned under the scheme, only 13,850, or 28% have been allocated across the country

Digital workspace helping firms improve management costs: Report

Thirty nine per cent of decision-makers realised cost improvements to support end-users

Digital India facing hurdles on multiple fronts: Report

With proliferation of cloud-based services, data security has emerged as a major challenge