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Over 1 cr rural citizens enrol for digital payments: Ravi Shankar Prasad

During the same period, e-wallets saw 243 per cent rise in volumes to 75 lakh transactions per day

Digital India, Make in India will bring marked change: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad claimed the number of mobile manufacturing companies in the country has gone up to 40 due to the concerted efforts of the government

Why no Bharat Ratna to Maulana Azad during Nehru-Gandhi rule? asks Ravi Shankar Prasad

S Jaipal Reddy said BJP was using Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel only to target Jawaharlal Nehru

Safety integral to effective use of internet: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He says, the govt is keen to work with the rest of the democratic world to build a high safety wall against cyber threats

IT infra in critical sectors needs periodic audits: Prasad

He said enhancing the cyber security as well as information technology infrastructure of financial institutions is an ongoing process

BPOs should move to smaller towns: Ravi Shankar Prasad

According to some estimate if the BPO industry moves to smaller towns it will save around 10 to 25% of the costs

My advice to firms is Make in India for India: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Not only mobiles but also production of TVs, LEDs, chargers, batteries and adapters has risen in the past year

FDI in electronic manufacturing touched Rs 1.23 lakh cr in 2016: Prasad

In value terms, mobile phones worth Rs 54,000 cr were made in India and this is likely to touch Rs 94,000 cr in 2016-17

Prasad to meet Panagariya today

Niti Aayog paper to boost electronics manufacturing, jobs will be discussed; another discussion with Irani

Come up with pro-people IT products, says Ravi Shankar Prasad to scientists

Prasad was speaking at the inauguration of a new research centre of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

37 mobile manufacturing plants set up in last 1 year: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He said that 11 crore mobile phones have been made in the country in last one year compared to 6 crore earlier

International arbitration skewed in favour of developed world: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He said that India has the finest judges, but only a small fraction are represented in the world arbitration process

Prasad blasts Cong on scam allegation

Prasad said the absurd charges came as the process was on for sending notices to telecom companies to recover legitimate due

Ravi Shankar Prasad takes charge as Law Minister

Prasad was earlier moved out of the Law Ministry in November 2015

Quality of calls improving, says Prasad

Private telecom operators have decided to invest Rs 12,000 crore for installation of 60,000 more towers over the next three months

IT Minister asks Nitish to expedite IT initiatives in Bihar

Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote a letter to the CM about lack of proposal for setting up electronics manufacturing cluster in Nalanda district

Telecom Minister rules out penal power to Trai

'The authority has enough power to protect the interest of consumers,' said Ravi Shankar Prasad

US companies can't live without our IT players: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad also asked the software exporters to not be anxious by the US visa issue

Payment banks to have initial corpus of Rs 800 crore: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Payments bank of department of posts will be functional by March 2017

Self-regulation is for self-satisfaction of companies: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Interview with Minister for Communications & Information Technology