UPI Goes Global: India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has moved decisively beyond home turf in 2025. The headline: UPI is being accepted in Malaysia through NIPL–Razorpay Curlec, joining a growing club of destinations (France, Singapore, UAE, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Qatar, and more). In parallel, PayPal World announced an upcoming link to UPI, while NRIs can…
Rupee Watch: Through the first half of November 2025, the rupee has traded tightly around 88.6–88.8 per U.S. dollar, brushing its late-September record low but largely holding the line. Daily reference prints and interbank closes show narrow ranges as a familiar mix of factors pull in oppo site directions: RBI defence via state-run banks, oil…
Sustainable Innovations: The race to limit climate change is now powered by a new generation of climate tech — practical innovations that move beyond lab demos into real-world impact. From utility-scale green hydrogen projects and advanced battery chemistries to AI-managed grids and biodegradable computing prototypes, 2026 promises rapid deployment and wider consumer adoption. This post…
आज के दौर में शिक्षा एक सपना नहीं, हक है। लेकिन NEP 2020-26 के चमकते वादों के बीच 1 करोड़ बच्चों का बचपन स्कूल की चौखट पर ठहरा हुआ है। क्यों? गरीबी की चुभन, बुनियादी सुविधाओं का अभाव, और वो भावनात्मक जख्म जो परिवारों को तोड़ देते हैं – एक मां का आंसू, एक पिता…
RBI’s October 2025 Policy Decoded: On October 1, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept the repo rate at 5.50% and retained a neutral stance. Alongside the pause, the RBI lowered FY26 CPI inflation to 2.6% (from 3.1%) and raised FY26 real GDP growth to 6.8%, citing easing food prices and…
India’s October 2025 CPI: India’s statistics office will publish the October 2025 Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, as flagged in last month’s release. September’s headline inflation was 1.54% year-on-year, the lowest since June 2017, with food deflation pulling the overall rate below 2%. Market trackers now expect an even lower October…
India’s GST Hits ₹1.96 Lakh Crore: India’s gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue for October 2025 printed at ₹1,95,936 crore, up 4.6% year-on-year, according to an official press release. Within this, domestic GST rose 2% to ₹1,45,052 crore, while import-related GST logged a stronger 12.9% growth—pointing to resilient trade activity even as a late-September…
India notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 on March 11, 2024, operationalising Section 6B of the Citizenship Act, 1955 for specified minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered on or before December 31, 2014. Applications are filed online and move through a District Level Committee (DLC) to an Empowered Committee (EC), with an oath…
PLI 1.2 for Specialty Steel: India has launched the third round of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for specialty steel—“PLI 1.2”—to accelerate domestic manufacture of advanced grades critical to defence, aerospace, automobiles, energy and infrastructure. The round covers 22 product sub-categories, offers 4–15% incentives on incremental sales, resets the base year to FY 2024–25,…
RDI Fund Explained: India has formally launched the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development & Innovation (RDI) Fund to catalyse private investment in transformative technologies. Announced at the Emerging Science, Technology & Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) in New Delhi on November 3, 2025, the scheme builds on Cabinet approval from July 1, 2025 and the Budget 2024–25…