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- DRDO Opens STANAG-6 Armour Technology to Indian Industry for Next-Generation Tanks October 14, 2026
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- India-UK Talks Target Space Technology, Nuclear Energy and AI Cooperation; 800 Indian Space Start-ups in Focus October 14, 2026
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- NPCI Defers UPI MDR Charges Until After Diwali: What Merchants Need to Know October 13, 2026
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NPCI Defers UPI MDR Charges Until After Diwali: What Merchants Need to Know
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has postponed the introduction of merchant discount rate (MDR) charges on select Unified…
Pine Labs Launches Unified Merchant Payments Platform in Singapore
Pine Labs has launched a unified merchant payments platform in Singapore, bringing payment acceptance, acquiring, instalment plans and customer engagement…
Why HDFC, SBI and ICICI Have Not Joined Apple Pay Yet
Apple Pay is finally available in India, but its first rollout has come with a notable gap. While Axis Bank…
Indians can Finally Use Apple Pay After 12 Years
Apple Pay has officially launched in India, bringing Apple’s contactless payment service to the country for the first time after…
UPI MDR Charges: Supreme Court Seeks Centre, RBI and NPCI Responses
The Supreme Court has refused to stay the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for specified Unified Payments Interface (UPI)…
No UPI Day Explained: UPI MDR, Retailers’ Protest and its Impact on Customers
India’s mobile phone retailers are preparing for a protest against the proposed changes to UPI payments. On October 2, 2026,…
SEBI AI Surveillance: How India’s Market Regulator Is Using AI to Detect Fraud and Manipulation
India’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning…
UPI Transaction Charges: Banks Cannot Charge Users for Payments Up to ₹2,000
The government has clarified that banks cannot enforce UPI transaction charges on payments of up to ₹2,000. The same rule…
India’s Digital Financial Journey Enters New Phase as RBI Backs Tokenisation, UPI and Fintech Innovation
India is entering a new phase of its “digital financial journey”, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) outlining a…
Paytm Launches Pi to Bring Agentic AI to Banks and Insurers
Paytm is moving beyond digital payments and into enterprise artificial intelligence with a new service called Paytm Intelligence, or Pi.…
GFF’26: PM Modi Calls for Next-Gen Fintech Push with AI, Tokenisation and Quantum
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the Indian fintech sector to move beyond digital payments and focus on the…
WhatsApp Bill Payments Launches in India: Users Can Pay Electricity, Gas and Other Bills
WhatsApp has launched a new Bill Payments feature in India, allowing users to find, manage and pay household and utility…
Bank of England Chief Warns Frontier AI Models Could Threaten Global Financial Stability
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) models could become a serious threat…
PhonePe’s UPI 123Pay Explained: Feature Phones Can Now Make UPI Payments Without Internet
PhonePe has expanded UPI payments to feature phones with the launch of UPI 123Pay, allowing users to make digital payments…
UPI Turns 10: How India’s Payment Revolution Changed Everyday Life
In 2016, I had just joined college. At the time, I could never have imagined that a payment system being…
Banks, NBFCs to Reset Fintech Partnerships as RBI Data Rules Raise Compliance Bar
Banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) are preparing to revisit their partnerships with fintech firms. The evolving data governance and…
UPI Turns 10: From 1.8 Crore Transactions to 24,000 Crore, India’s Digital Payments Giant Faces Its Next Test
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has completed a decade after growing from 1.8 crore transactions in its first financial year…
MeitY PhonePe Partnership to Bring Transaction Data Into PM GatiShakti Planning
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PhonePe for a partnership…
Navi Raises $100 Million Funding From Prosus: Sachin Bansal’s Fintech Gets Its First Institutional Cheque
Navi Limited, the financial services company founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, has raised $100 million from global technology investor…
UPI Payments Will Remain Free for Consumers, Says Nirmala Sitharaman; MDR May Apply to Some Merchants
Amid an Opposition walkout, the Rajya Sabha on August 10, passed the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill and returned the Taxation…
