Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched 75 cashless/less-cash townships, with an overwhelming 56 of them being in Gujarat. The towns span across 12 states contributing to around 1.5 lakh cashless transactions per day and around 5.5 crore transactions a year. Some of the prominent townships include those of state- owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp […]
Trump Administration Cracks Down on H1-B Visas for Coders…
The new policy guidance that would make it harder for companies to use the H-1B visa program to bring foreign computer programmers into the U.S. A policy memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services changes the way the agency will process visa applications for computer programming positions, making companies jump through extra hoops to […]
Trump’s New Alliance to End Islamic Terrorism by Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar…
Terrorists are being killed, locked up, and running scared now that a Commander-in-Chief has replaced an Apologizer-in-Chief. Terror mastermind Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was placed under house arrest in Lahore on January 30, less than ten days after Donald Trump took office. For years, Saeed had been living in the open in Pakistan in spite of […]
Indian Police Unearths $550 Million ‘Pay Per Click’ Internet Scam…
Masterminded by a 26 year old tech graduate, the scam mainly involved collecting subscription fees from users who were offered handsome payment for clicking on URLs or liking web pages specified by the company…
A $500B Pot of Gold: How Boston Consulting and Google Pushed Modi to End the Era of Cash…
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the omnipresent US-consulting company, and Google, the global data miner, issued a joint report in July 2016 on the “$500 bn Pot of Gold”, which is the Indian digital payment market. Even though the authors deny it, the report gives much reason to suspect that the authors knew that something radical […]
What’s Really Behind the Rise of the Cashless Economy? (VIDEO)…
A Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Demonetization Project…
Obama has declared the strategic partnership with India a priority of his foreign policy. China needs to be reined in…the US government’s development agency USAID has negotiated cooperation agreements with the Indian ministry of finance. One of these has the declared goal to push back the use of cash in favor of digital payments in […]
India Overtakes Britain as the World’s Sixth-Largest Economy…
Score one for the post-colonial underdog. India’s economy has reportedly overtaken the United Kingdom’s for the first time in over 100 years, now standing as the world’s sixth-largest economy by GDP after the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and France. The milestone is a symbol of India’s rapid economic growth and…
2 Taiwanese Teenagers Win World Robot Olympiad…
U.S., India Sign Major Military Pact Amid Beijing Concerns…
The US and India have signed a major military deal facilitating the bilateral use of navy bases, allowing Washington to boost its military presence on China’s doorstep…