MUMBAI: UPI payments closed 2025 at a new high extending the steady gains seen through the year. UPI transactions grew 5.7% to 2,163 crore in Dec over the previous month, while payments value climbed 6.3% to nearly Rs 28 lakh crore. The previous high was in Oct with 2,070 crore transactions worth Rs 27.3 lakh…
The Bank of Japan is preparing to raise interest rates at its December policy meeting, a shift that would lift the country’s benchmark rate to its highest level since 1995 and potentially reverberate through global risk markets, including crypto. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that policymakers are leaning toward a 25-basis-point hike to…
PANAJI: Grief curdled into rage outside the morgue of Goa Medical College and Hospital on Sunday as relatives and friends of the 25 victims in the Arpora nightclub blaze, most of them migrant staffers, squatted in the harsh afternoon sun and demanded to know: Where are the owners?Nobody from the management of Birch By Romeo…
BHOPAL: While the controversy over IAS officer Santosh Verma’s remark against Brahmins at the Anusuchit Jati and Janjati Adhikari Evam Karmachari Sangh (AJAKS) State Convention in Bhopal on Nov 23 refuses to die down, another video of a woman IAS officer, Meenakshi Singh has surfaced in Madhya Pradesh in which she is heard advocating caste-based…
NEW DELHI: “My message to Gen Z is simple: nothing in life is linear. Be flexible and persevere,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday in an online post that he shared along with a video of his recent interaction with NRI students from the UAE. He said, “Many shared how they feel anxious about…
NEW DELHI: One of the first crude oil tankers arrived at Mumbai Port after passing through the Strait of Hormuz since the Iran-US conflict began.According to news agency ANI, the Liberia-flagged tanker Shenlong Suezmax docked at Mumbai Port at 1 pm on Wednesday and was berthed at Jawahar Dweep at 6:06 pm. The tanker had…
The industry’s great legislative hope is shifting to the U.S. Senate’s Agriculture Committee, which released its own draft of the contentious oversight effort. Source link
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has provided for extensive rights and protections of air travelers. It gives clear guidelines on flight delays, cancellations, baggage, ticket management among other things.These provisions become significant to understand to ensure consumer rights especially after the recent flight disruption crisis. Here’s a glimpse at certain key provisions to ensure passenger…
In this age of digital surge and fintech, there is easy access to various types of loans, be it a personal loan, a home loan, a car, a loan against property or a loan against securities. Among the loans against securities — which are essentially secured loans — one segment that seen a significant surge…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday praised the youth for embracing the emerging trend of “bhajan-clubbing”, saying it is a powerful blend of devotion, culture, spirituality and modernity that resonates strongly with Gen Z. ‘Bhajan-clubbing’ — in which large groups, particularly youngsters, come together in community settings to sing bhajans and devotional songs —…
