Cashless India

India currently has around 350 million online transacting users across e-commerce, shopping, travel and hospitality, and OTT and the number is set to double by 2030, a new report showed on Wednesday

The cashless treatment facility provided by Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY scheme for poor and underserved families has substantially reduced their out-of-pocket expenditure as well as financial bankruptcy due to severe and prolonged illness, and expensive treatment, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday. Mandaviya interacted virtually with beneficiaries of the scheme from different parts of the country as the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) completes four years of implementation, a statement by the health ministry said. Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Bharati Pravin Pawar as well as Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel also attended the programme. The Union health minister also shared the travails and pain of the beneficiaries and their families who narrated their experience of severe health crisis, and their inability of meeting the healthcare expenditure on their own, the statement said. They also relived their joy on

NCR Corporation, the world's largest vendor of ATMs, has over 50 per cent share of the local market, but business could be better, says NAVROZE DASTUR

The demand for the Rs 500 bill, which is the second highest denomination after the Rs 2,000 note, has soared the highest and now accounts for over 51 percent of the value of currency in circulation

India going cashless will be as much a story of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term as it was of his first

Current signals indicate there is a long way to vaunted paperless courts

India and other governments have failed to see the impact on poor, who seldom use banks

Essar's Nand Niketan becomes India's first private township to go cashless with fin-tech firm TMW

The ministry has also launched a website to be repository of knowledge regarding digital payment

Since Nov 8, the government's narrative has shifted from a move to curb black money to transform India into a cashless society

PM Modi's push for a cashless economy in Moradabad has inspired school children in the area to educate people