-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the regulatory authority for Aadhaar, has written to a Bengaluru-based research organisation, Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), seeking details about a suspected hack attack on government websites that led to the leak of information about 13 crore users. In a recent report, CIS had highlighted that websites run by various government departments, owing to a poor security framework,...
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Cash is back as digital payments dip on cost -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu PoS devices’ demand falls on remonetisation, user charges Cash transactions are beginning to trump almost every form of digital payment alternative with April clocking a decline in volumes as well as value of transactions conducted through cards, mobile banking and the Unified Payment Interface (UPI). The trend assumes significance six months after the Centre announced demonetisation of ?500 and ?1,000 notes on November 8. The near-completion of the remonetisation process and merchants...
More »Multidrug-resistant TB will rise in India, says new study
-The Hindu By 2040, 12.4% of patients in the country will have that variant, reports Lancet A month after the Health Ministry set itself the target of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, a new study in the medical journal Lancet says that India’s TB crisis is likely to get worse. According to the latest issue of the journal, Multidrug Resistant-Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), a version of the disease where patients do not respond to first-line...
More »Govt clears decks for paper trails in all EVMs
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government cleared the decks for a fully paper trail-based parliamentary poll on Wednesday, with the Union Cabinet approving release of funds to the Election Commission for procuring 16.15 lakh voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) units in time for the 2019 general election. The expenditure of Rs 3,173 crore on the VVPATs will be split over two financial years, 2017-18 and 2018-19. If the EC...
More »IMD predicts normal monsoon this year; sends positive signals to farm sector -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD), country's national weather forecaster, on Tuesday predicted normal monsoon rainfall for the year, sending a positive signal to the farm sector and the overall economy. "Even the distribution of the rainfall is expected to be good this year," said IMD chief KJ Ramesh, sounding quite optimistic about the prospect of having a good year for the country's agriculture. Good spatial distribution...
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