ETtech Explainer: All you need to know about Unified Lending InterfaceThe data needed for credit appraisal currently lies scattered across governments, banks, account aggregators, and credit information compan...
27 Aug, 2024, 11.02 AM IST
World Bank lauds India's Digital Public Infrastructure in G20 documentThe World Bank has praised India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for its transformative impact and rapid achievements. The bank highl...
08 Sep, 2023, 12.11 PM IST
View: How PM SVANidhi Yojana lends a helping hand to the informal sectorThe scheme which aims to facilitate street vendors with a collateral free loan up to 10,000 rupees at an interest subsidy @7 % has been qui...
11 Oct, 2021, 03.49 PM IST
Electronics manufacturing can contribute $1 tn to India's economy by 2025: Ravi Shankar PrasadThe electronics manufacturing industry alone can contribute $1 trillion to the Prime Minister’s vision of making India a $5 trillion econom...
18 Dec, 2020, 03.30 PM IST
Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan: All you need to knowIt is a voluntary and contributory pension scheme, under which the subscriber would receive a minimum assured pension of Rs 3,000 per month...
02 Jul, 2019, 02.49 PM IST
India has all the ingredients to succeed: Harvard ProfessorAccording to a series of NITI Aayog tweets, Harvard business school professor Michael E Porter said India is at a very good place in the ch...
26 May, 2017, 01.22 AM IST
Government saved Rs 36k crore in one year by plugging leakages via JAMHe pointed out that in a population of 125 crore, India today has over 103 crore mobile phones (users) and 107 crore Aadhar cards for verif...
14 Nov, 2016, 03.56 PM IST
Delegation studies Aadhar-linked DBT prog in Andhra Pradesh villagesThe Krishna district has been chosen as a pilot by the Government of India for implementation of Aadhar-linked DBT scheme.
05 Jul, 2016, 04.50 PM IST
BSNL has earned operating profit of Rs 672 crore: Ravi Shankar PrasadThe Minister expressed confidence that the public sector telecom company would earn an operating profit of Rs 2,000 crore in this financial...
17 Jun, 2016, 11.52 PM IST
Andhra Bank to launch Bharat Bill Payment Service soonThe MD and CEO said Andhra Bank was focusing on delivery of services using technology under the JAM (Jandhan-Aadhar- Mobile) initiative.
20 May, 2016, 09.03 PM IST
Arvind Subramanian stresses on importance of Jandhan-Aadhar-MobileHe said that women in particular expressed their satisfaction about receiving benefits of various welfare schemes through JAM.
15 May, 2016, 01.16 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi's PMJDY makes India #1 in commitment to financial inclusion: BrookingsThe report that aims at evaluating the access to and usage of affordable financial services by underserved people across 21 countries gave ...
17 Nov, 2015, 08.46 AM IST
29.17 lakh accounts opened under PMJDY in Punjab: Parminder Singh DhindsaPunjab Government has opened a record over 29.17 lakh accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY) for which different banks or...
06 Nov, 2015, 10.47 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Delhi Economic Conclave tomorrowPrime Minister Narendra Modi will tomorrow inaugurate the Delhi Economics Conclave (DEC), which will be hosted by the Finance Ministry.
05 Nov, 2015, 04.31 PM IST
For Modi government, UID the wild card that came goodThe Aadhaar card has emerged as the world's largest biometric identification database, way ahead of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
19 May, 2015, 12.10 PM IST
India must seize chance to be top economy: Christine Lagarde, IMF chiefLagarde praised the steps taken by PM Narendra Modi and RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to steer the economy.
16 Mar, 2015, 10.52 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi launches 'Jan Dhan Yojana'; Rs one lakh life insurance cover to poor peopleModi said, people have mobile phones but not bank accounts, the scheme will help bring the benefits of formal banking system to them.
15 Aug, 2014, 09.25 AM IST