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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicMobile digital payments

Topic: Mobile digital payments

Paytm launches ‘Card Soundbox’ to let merchants accept both UPI & card payments

Sethuraman N R -
The launch of the payment device, with instant audio payment alerts, comes as rival Pine Labs announced a similar device at one-third of the cost.

Prosus-backed PayU to acquire payment gateway company BillDesk for Rs 345 bn

Saritha Rai -
BillDesk, backed by Visa, was one of the pioneers of online payments in India alongside larger rival Paytm. Its services are common especially among retailers in the country.

Bill Gates praises India’s digital finance policies as a model for the world

Yoolim Lee -
Citing India's platforms for universal identification and digital payments, Gates said the policies drastically reduced the cost and friction of distributing aid to the poor.

50 nations promised cash to fight Covid. Few, like India and Bangladesh, are doing it right

Alan Gelb -
India’s trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile communications — or JAM — can work wonders if it is used extensively to reform citizen–state engagement.

Indian company, not Chinese, can dominate global payments: Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Saritha Rai -
‘India’s payments leader will build a low-cost, highly scalable model in an extremely competitive environment. The winner here can go win anywhere.’

PayTM helping SoftBank wade into Japan’s crowded digital payments space

Saritha Rai -
Dozens of employees of the Indian startup are said to be working in Tokyo on getting the service up and running.

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Opinion

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Stela Dey -
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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