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Fact Check: No tax on regular UPI payments, 1.1% charge only on PPI instruments like digital wallets

ThePrint Team -
An X user claimed that starting rom 1 April, transfers above Rs 2,000 via UPI will be taxed. The 1.1% tax has been applicable only on Prepaid Payment Instruments since 2023.

Adani Group plans e-commerce, digital payments ventures, reports FT

Kanjyik Ghosh -
It aims to enter India's burgeoning digital payments market and compete with incumbents Google Pay and Walmart-backed PhonePe.

Paytm shares rise by 5% as NPCI allows digital payments through third-party apps

Rama Venkat -
The license, granted by the country's payments authority, came as Paytm Payments Bank will cease to operate on 15 March, following regulatory action due to non-compliance with certain norms.

WhatsApp India allows payments via Google Pay, Paytm within app

Aditya Kalra -
The additions help Meta's plan for business messaging to become the 'next major pillar' of the company's sales growth.

CCI orders Google to allow third-party payments, ensure transparency about service fees

Praveen Paramasivam -
Competition Commission of India also slapped Rs 936-cr fine on Google Tuesday. In a 199-page order, CCI asked the firm to adopt 8 remedies or operations adjustments within three months.

‘Maa Tujhe Salam’ — Congress now dedicates slogan to Indira, after using it for Sonia in May

ThePrint Team -
Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

We don’t share GPay customer data with third parties — Google dismisses media reports

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Google denies media reports that state the company told Delhi High Court it had permission to share user data with third parties.

Google gets antitrust notice over ‘unfairly’ promoting Google Pay over other apps in India

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
CCI will investigate whether Google is abusing its dominant market position, but may not order a larger probe if it finds no merit in the complaint. 

On Google Pay, India is paying and playing — the good old lottery game

Pia Krishnankutty -
G-Pay has brought back the nostalgia associated with scratch cards. It makes you mimic the motion of scratching via swiping.

PhonePe – the $10 billion bonanza Walmart got after buying Flipkart

Saritha Rai -
Walmart got PhonePe as a surprise when it acquired Flipkart last year. It has now grown into one of India’s leading digital payments companies.

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Opinion

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

Triya Gulati -
It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

Mirzapur’s Beena Tripathi is proof — a woman doesn’t need a gun to wield power

Economy

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Faseeh Mangi -
Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

Defence

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

Debdutta Chakraborty -
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

National Interest

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

Shekhar Gupta -
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.

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