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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicUPI digital payments

Topic: UPI digital payments

Modi’s diamond to Jill Biden outshone all in 2023 & why India’s dragging its feet on climate action

Apart from reporting on water stress in India, global media also predicts a digital payments boom in the country, with WhatsApp given free run by National Payments Corporation of India.

World’s hottest election, ‘divisive rhetoric’ by Modi & India’s digital payments revolution

As voter enthusiasm wanes, BJP faces challenges in balancing Modi’s rhetoric with diverse concerns, while digital payments reshape India’s economic landscape, reports global media.

France to get UPI soon. Till then, a list of other countries where you can use this payment interface

PM Narendra Modi announced Thursday that UPI payments will soon be possible in France. ThePrint explains how the payment interface has grown since it was first launched in 2016. 

RBI proposes expanding UPI digital payments system to allow pre-sanctioned credit lines

In a bid to boost digital payments, RBI recently allowed RuPay credit cards to be linked to UPI. This was to enable customers to link their credit cards and pay via UPI.

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Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.