World record by Sania-Martina as they win 29th match on trot
India’s Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis broke a 22-year-old world record by winning their 29th women’s doubles match in a row en route to their entry into the women’s doubles final of the WTA Sydney International, in Sydney.
India on track to register entire population using Aadhaar: World Bank
According to World Bank’s World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends, India is on track to register its entire 1.25 billion population using its Aadhaar digital ID which would help the government to promote the inclusion of disadvantaged groups in its welfare schemes.
Digital dividends not spreading rapidly, says World Bank in World Development Report
With 60 per cent of the world’s population still offline, institutional and regulatory barriers to efficiency are exacerbating the problem of low and unevenly distributed “digital dividends” from growing Internet penetration across countries, a new World Bank study has found.