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The government has budgeted ₹2,000 crore for the ongoing financial year under its incentive scheme for the promotion of RuPay Debit Cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions. (Representational image) | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI will not be enough to cover the cost of running and maintaining the payment platform,…
CJP’s ‘cockroach’ movement to protest from October 2 if CEC doesn’t quit by Saturday Abhijeet Dipke, founder of India’s ‘cockroach’ youth movement, said on Friday (September 25, 2026) that the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will launch nationwide protests from October 2, 2026, if Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar does not resign by Saturday (September…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attends the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, U.S. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan has vowed to deepen bilateral cooperation with Dhaka and Tehran, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met his Bangladesh counterpart Tarique Rahman and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines…
representational image | Photo Credit: KK MUSTAFAH Wide variations in tariffs at private electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have triggered complaints from users across Keralam, with EV owners calling for greater transparency and a uniform pricing mechanism for public charging infrastructure. Users say tariffs vary considerably between charging stations and operators, with peak-hour charging proving…
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On July 15, Raj Rani, 52, an ASHA worker in Yamunagar, Haryana had just completed her tasks for the day when she felt a throbbing pain in her left arm and in the middle of her chin. Since this pain had persisted for a few days, she went to the Community Health Centre (CHC) in…
Heaps of garbage dumped on the banks of Mandakini river. File | Photo Credit: K. R. Deepak Kedarnath Dham generated 50.30 metric tonnes of waste in just five months from April to August 2026. This figure is more than two and a half times the waste collected during the entire pilgrimage season the previous year….
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Ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman for West Asian oil from inside the Strait of Hormuz have reached their limits after Saudi Arabia diverted exports from the Red Sea, adding to shipments from other producers, trade sources and analysts said. The increasing amount of Saudi exports this month requires more supertankers to shuttle crude…
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Representational image of rupee rise. File | Photo Credit: GettyImages/iStockphoto The rupee gained 14 paise 95.85 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on Friday (September 25, 2026) amid a positive trend in domestic equities and remained above the key psychological barrier of 96 per dollar. Forex traders said persistent dollar demand from domestic importers…
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Radhika Jha, lead researcher of the SPIR series, said that cybercrime perpetrators rely heavily on ‘social engineering’ which involves winning trust of the potential victims through deception and manipulation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Lack of digital exposure isn’t the only factor that may lead someone to fall prey to cybercrimes; a significant number of…
Foreign Institutional Investors offloaded equities worth ₹5,027.36 crore on September 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: GettyImages/iStockphoto Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty faced volatile trends after rebounding in early trade on Friday (September 25, 2026) as elevated crude oil prices, high U.S. bond yields and selling in IT stocks weighed on investors’ sentiment. After sharp…
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