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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: UPI

UPI has grown beyond start-up stage. It must power India’s grand strategy

The UPI can serve as a turning point in India’s engagement with a world that is collapsing under the weight of great power politics.

Digital wallets are making sure that Indian students get their scholarship on time

Scholarship disbursement was once a long, drawn-out process involving paperwork and months of back and forth has been drastically cut down using Digital Public Infrastructure.

‘Mujhe EMI bharna hai’—how voice tech is bringing millions of Indians into banking system

Using icons and speech, AI-enabled voice apps like Hello Ujjivan and Bhashini are building a new bridge to banking for India’s 18 crore low-literate citizens.

India, Russia in ‘active discussion’ over RuPay & MIR mutual transactions

This will make RuPay one of the few international payment systems to be active in Russia. Moscow has faced a number of sanctions by Western countries since the war with Ukraine.

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

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.

India’s UPI hits historic milestone with 16.58 billion transactions in October

According to PIB, the digital payment platform processes ₹23.49 lakh crores worth of transactions in a single month.

How to Recharge Your FASTag Using Different Payment Methods

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How Transitioning to a Bill Payment App Can Make Your Life Easier

With the help of these little apps on our devices, we can not only pay our bills just with a few swipes of our fingers but also keep track of our expenses as well.

Price tag of the grand Ambani wedding, popularity of UPI & the ‘cultural shift’ India is witnessing

Global media also discusses impact of 'scorching heat' and elections on Indian companies, with profits for some firms showing a downward trend & the 20-yr-old who tried to shoot Trump.

HDFC to stop SMS alerts for UPI transactions up to Rs 100

Email alert for all transactions will continue to be delivered. The bank, however, did not reveal the reason behind not sending SMSes for transactions below Rs 100.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.