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Sunday, August 10, 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.

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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

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.