-The Hindu Infamous as Jharkhand’s hub of Online Frauds, the tiny district now has 45 public libraries diverting youth away from cybercrime BHUBANESWAR: The library movement in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district got off to a flying start with public libraries developed in a short span of time receiving a steady inflow of students from different age groups. Jamtara’s love for books assumes huge significance as it has the dubious distinction of being the “phishing...

-PTI After demonetisation last November, the Narendra Modi government has pushed banks into deploying millions of points-of-sale (PoS) machines to encourage online payments Mumbai: The government’s digital payments push, mainly online card payments through point-of-sale (PoS) machines, may leave already capital starved banks bleed by a whopping Rs3,800 crore annually, warns a report. After demonetisation last November, the Narendra Modi government has pushed banks into deploying millions of points-of-sale (PoS) machines to encourage...

-The Times of India MUMBAI: Electronic payments have become safer for consumers with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing the concept of 'zero liability' and 'limited liability' for bank customers for any card or online fraud. The central bank has also made it mandatory for banks to register all customers for text message alerts and permit reporting of unauthorized transactions through a reply to the alert message. The proposal to limit...

-The Hindu Cyber crimes that are grave in nature will now attract detention under the Goondas Act. Winding up a conference of senior IAS/IPS officers here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced that suitable amendments would be made to include cyber crime under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982. Departing from the principle...

Primarily to address issues related to spending and implementation India’s apex planning body is drawing up a set of proposed reforms for the country’s flagship rural job guarantee programme, primarily to address issues related to spending and implementation. The changes proposed under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) will be sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the end of this month for consideration, said Mihir Shah, member, Planning...