'Xi is a black box'

New Delhi:Currency crunch seen in many parts of the country in past few days showed signs of easing today with 86 per cent of ATMs coming online, cash being transported to deficit areas and government presses working overtime to print new notes, officials ...

While most banks in India store all this data on Indian servers in their core banking systems, the current directive addresses new-age payment and fintech companies operating in the space Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Indian financial technology companies don’t seem to catch a breath. Even as firms operating in the financial space were coming to terms with know-your-customer norms, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) directive to store all financial data in India ...

Mumbai: Describing recent reports of cash shortage in the country as "logic defying", state-run State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday said the possible reasons could be the declining income velocity of currency with the public in 2017-18 coupled with ...

Mini Tejaswi City: Bangalore IBS Software Services has chalked out its plans for another round of inorganic play. The company that made six different acquisitions in the last 10 years has now set aside $100 million to acquire capabilities across travel, ...

Sneha Bhattacharjee narrates the story of Kirthi Jayakumar. Kirthi Jayakumar, the brains and the force behind the Saahas app.Photograph: Courtesy redelephantfoundation.org   On a night in May 2016, Kirthi Jayakumar received 16 messages and 31 calls from a friend based in the United Kingdom. She had got married and settled there only a year ago. The friend was a victim of extreme domestic violence. From observing her habits within the house to monitoring how long she spoke on the ...

The Andhra Pradesh government has been adopting a focused approach to fill the widening gaps in infrastructure across the state and to meet the challenges posed by a fast-expanding urban geography and demography, said a state minister.The government has drawn ...

'Nitish is now a helpless junior ally of Hindutva.''He just cannot think of reining in the hoodlums raging, marauding and killing in the mohallas,' argues Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, flanked by Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi and assembly Speaker Vijay Chaudhary, leads a human chain against child marriage and dowry in Patna, January 21, 2017. Photograph: PTI Photo Bihar, and many parts of West Bengal, close to Bihar, has been engulfed in communal tension and violence.

Blackmail on one side and bullying on the other doesn't make for a constructive partnership, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. Sheikh Hasina's intriguing comment the other day that India should make an effort to keep neighbours happy raises a number of possibilities that it would be unwise of Narendra D Modi to ignore. Since she was speaking to Indian journalists, the warning was obviously meant to be conveyed to New Delhi where the prime minister alone matters in our one-man government. The obvious ...

Country's first-of-its-kind dictionary, which aims to bring uniformity in sign languages used by hearing and speech impaired people across the nation, was released today. The Indian Sign Language (ISL) dictionary, which has been developed by the Indian Sign ...