India is four times more populous than the US, but has just 2% the number of cases and only 1.5% of the number of Covid-19 deaths. How has the country, whose per capita income is just tenth of the US, avoided being flattened by the pandemic?
India’s richest municipal body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), faces a funds crunch. It needs to capitalise on its assets and aim for greater revenues from the land market.
The bill’s brute force approach to giving users control over their digital selves through data portability provision runs roughshod over market dynamics.
Three years ago, even banks did not give Modi govt’s Unified Payments Interface much odds of success. Now, UPI is one of the fastest-growing payment platforms in the world.
Modi govt’s proposed Personal Data Protection Bill has to be in conjunction with its blueprint governing India’s health data. But can it make private players participate?