Digital India

In this insightful conversation with Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist at Zoho, we dive deep into how his role has evolved and what it means for the future of Indian technology. From his push for the Swadeshi (self-reliance) movement to the challenges of building Arattai as a homegrown messaging platform, Sridhar shares candid thoughts on innovation, privacy, and India’s place in the global tech ecosystem.

The muddled quest for Digital Swaraj

India's sporadic attempts at achieving Digital Swaraj through homegrown tech alternatives repeatedly fail due to lack of long-term strategy and commitment to world-class quality

PM Modi hails the role of UPI in enabling the vision of Digital India

UPI, the world’s largest retail real-time payments system, records around 630 million transactions daily

LIVE: Nandan Nilekani on India’s AI Challenge and Digital Transformation

India has led the world in digitalising its economy through digital public infrastructure (DPI). Infosys Co-founder and Chairman Nandan Nilekani seeded India’s digital leap with Aadhar. But what’s next for India with AI? Nilekani speaks to Nalin Mehta, Managing Editor, Moneycontrol, on India’s AI opportunities and challenges as it reshapes it digital infrastructure.

Why audio devices are the backbone of the digital-first consumer

Audio devices, from voice assistants to immersive sound technologies, are reshaping how we interact with digital spaces. As part of the IoT ecosystem, they’re becoming essential in communication, entertainment, and smart home automation, driving future technological advancements 

Microsoft, Digital India plan AI centres in Tier II and III cities to train 5 lakh people

The project also promises to set up 'AI Productivity Labs' in 20 skill institutes across 10 states to train 20,000 educators, and will offer foundational AI courses to 1 lakh students in 200 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).

Kisan Pehchan Patra: All about Centre’s farmer ID initiative that aims to digitise agri sector

The Farmer ID, also known as the Kisan Pehchaan Patra, is a unique Aadhaar-linked digital identity dynamically connected to state land records. The government plans to generate Farmer IDs for 11 crore farmers by 2027.

US, Japan and S Korea join hands to support digital infrastructure in India

The DiGi Framework creates a streamlined process where DFC, JBIC, and Korea Eximbank, in partnership with the Indian private sector, can provide support to meet the needs of strategic digital infrastructure deals in India, the press statement said.

India’s Digital Payments Surge: Revolutionising commerce and empowering small businesses

India’s digital payments have surged nearly fivefold in six years, with over 40% of transactions now cashless. UPI leads this shift, empowering small businesses by removing geographic barriers and enhancing convenience. Government initiatives have also helped in driving the growth story

AI Alliance Pune: Bhashini to enable voice commands in native languages for mobile recharges, bill payments

Digital India Bhashini Division CEO Amitabh Nag said that when PM Modi used Bhashini's live speech translation offering, the delay in translation was around 6 seconds. However, today it has been improved to around 1-2 seconds of delay.

Here's how you can watch shows and movies not available in India

A VPN or Virtual Private Network allows you to bypass geo-blocks and access content on streaming sites that you might otherwise couldn't watch.

Budget 2024: Building India’s digital future faster than ever

Agarwal is confident that India has what it takes to bridge the fiber per capita gap with the right policy and budget impetus.

Piyush Goyal holds interaction with YouTubers

The interaction was held on October 20 in Bharat Mandpam at Pragati Maidan here. This was the second meeting of the minister with YouTubers this year. Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur also participated in the interaction.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on why India was included in JP Morgan bond index

In an exclusive conversation, the CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon speaks to CNBC TV-18’s Shereen Bhan on why India was included in the JP Morgan bond index. He also shares his insights on India’s growth opportunities, digital infrastructure and more. Watch!

G20 summit: There is a lot of global demand for UPI says Arvind Gupta, Co Founder, Digital India Foundation

According to Gupta traders and businessmen in other countries end up shelling out of two percent of their profit margin on every transaction charges owing to which UPI will become hugely beneficial for them.

India has legitimate bragging rights for public-sector led UPI success: Nalin Mehta

Calling it the center piece of India's G20 presidency, Mehta said UPI is now a major tool for India's diplomatic strategies.

India has extraordinarily embraced digital: B20 founding member Denton

Praising India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a platform that enables seamless transfer of funds between bank accounts, Denton said the way it has been made available at almost no cost is extraordinary

India 2047 will be a fully digital society and a knowledge economy: RS Sharma

Every individual will have access to all digital means, and people will be able to transact among themselves digitally for payment and other communications.

What's driving the positive outlook of India Inc towards India? | #MCBullishOnIndia

Recognized as one of the globe's swiftest expanding economies and a hub of entrepreneurial spirit, India is also making strides in digital transformation that outpace international benchmarks. Gain insights from notable voices like T Koshi, MD & CEO of ONDC, along with Akshay Ghulati, Co-founder of Shiprocket, Gautam Kapoor, Co-founder of Shiprocket, Saahil Goel, CEO & Co-founder of Shiprocket, and Vishesh Khurana, Co-founder of Shiprocket. Join in to uncover the factors driving India Inc's optimistic perspective on the nation. Moneycontrol is bringing to you a special series to capture India's rising economic might, as it emerges stronger from the pandemic amid a sluggish world economy.

Bullish on India | UPI will be key to accelerating India’s economy: NPCI CEO 

UPI has 10X growth possible still from the very current base, says Dilip Asbe

What’s a content blocking provision doing in a data protection legislation?

The personal data bill’s detour into content blocking is not only a duplication of an existing power the government already possesses under the IT Act, but it lacks basic safeguards too. This could lead to bureaucratic excesses that can disrupt internet businesses and hinder our path to a trillion-dollar digital economy

Consent in data protection bill empowers individuals even as businesses allowed legitimate use of information

The Bill creates a novel system of registered consent managers. This will allow users to mindfully think about what they want done with their data, record their preferences once, and thereafter, use their consent manager to manage consents for the hundreds of products and services they use every day

Government to hire agency to estimate size of digital economy

According to a joint report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company, India’s internet economy alone is expected to register six-fold growth and touch $1 trillion by 2030.

Digital India Act: Don’t dump safe harbour. India’s digital ecosystem needs it 

A future-proof Digital India Act must retain safe harbour protections, or it could endanger India’s global digital ambitions. Ensure proportionality in the obligations and penalties of online platforms to protect innovation and fight harms. Onerous content monitoring obligations can impose tremendous legal and compliance costs

5G seen accounting for 57 pc of mobile subscriptions in India by 2028 end, Ericsson report

With the launch of 5G services in October 2022, the major 5G Indian market is witnessing huge network deployments under its Digital India initiative, it observed.