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Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Topic: PhonePe

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

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

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.

Walmart paid most of $1 billion tax for PhonePe shifting base to India

Walmart bought a controlling stake in Flipkart in 2018, giving it ownership of PhonePe. The company said last month it would remain a majority stakeholder in both the companies.

PhonePe Vs BharatPe — No exclusivity on ‘Pe’, spell it right or wrong

The Delhi High Court has rejected PhonePe’s plea to issue an injunction order against BharatPe for using ‘Pe’ in its name.

Yes Bank meltdown takes out PhonePe payments app

PhonePe, India’s leading digital payments provider with more than 175 million users, is the largest of a plethora of local start-ups that relied on Yes Bank.

Paytm, PhonePe, Amazon, Google help push UPI payments past 1 billion transactions

UPI has now surpassed 100 million users, thanks to booming smartphone use and wireless data rates among the lowest in the world.

PhonePe spinoff could give India two unicorns at a combined value of upto $ 30 billion

PhonePe preparing to fly solo is a sign of India’s maturing digital sector, and a step that could put India back on the global technology map.

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

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.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.