UPI volumes report 3% dip in April to 22.5 billion transactions after record high numbers in MarchUPI transactions in April saw a minor dip from March but a 25% rise year-on-year. While UPI shows resilience, India's digital payments sect...
01 May, 2026, 09.44 PM IST
Internet shutdowns anti-productive for India's cashless economy: Internet SocietyThis year till end of June, 29 incidents of states blocking Internet services were reported in the country, according to the Software Freed...
06 Jan, 2020, 01.32 PM IST
‘40 million merchants are yet to go online, that’s an opportunity’As founder & CEO of MobiKwik, Singh helped the mobile wallet company raise four rounds of funding from investors, including Sequoia Capital...
13 May, 2018, 10.24 AM IST
Digital economy: Parliamentary panel suggests govt to form law on data privacyParliamentary Standing Committee on Finance also suggests to create a coordinating authority, reporting directly to the PMO to deal with is...
03 Jan, 2018, 08.33 PM IST
'Tax rebates to consumers,traders to promote digital payments'The confederation has prepared a report on universal access to infrastructure and open payment systems. In this, it has also recommended fo...
05 Sep, 2017, 02.05 PM IST
Government's many digital payment systems: ET helps decode the optionsBharat QR is the latest payment application that will help people pay digitally. It joins at least half-a-dozen other options to pay withou...
02 Mar, 2017, 01.06 AM IST
India's GDP to expand post demonetisation: Arjun Ram MeghwalMeghwal said that about 23.2 per cent of the economic activity is "shadow economy" and government's push to cashless transactions will wide...
16 Feb, 2017, 04.01 PM IST
Government's cashless push to boost smartphone sales: SamsungAccording to the Samsung executive, the mobile phone industry was not hit that badly due to cash crunch post the November 8 note ban announ...
19 Jan, 2017, 05.00 PM IST
Note ban delays National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme paymentsNREGS workers are paid daily in smaller denomination notes, which are in short supply even after the government put more focus to make cash...
28 Dec, 2016, 01.08 AM IST
SBI adopts a village to make it cashless“In 30-days time, the entire village will turn cashless,” SBI deputy managing director and CIO Mrutyunjay Mahapatra told ET.
24 Dec, 2016, 05.06 PM IST
TMC will hit streets with 'Modi hatao,desh bachao' slogan: Mamata Banerjee"Our party's only slogan will be 'Modi hatao, desh bachao' and we will organise meetings throughout the state from January 1 to 8," the CM ...
23 Dec, 2016, 12.41 AM IST
Just 1% Indians pay Income Tax: NITI Aayog CEOAmitabh Kant said India cannot afford as high as 95 per cent of its economy making cash transactions.
21 Dec, 2016, 09.40 PM IST
Cashless economy not possible in India now: Nitish Kumar"At present, a cashless economy is not possible in the country. Cash-based transactions will decrease slowly with the pace of our developme...
19 Dec, 2016, 10.20 PM IST
If not cashless let's become less-cash society: Rajnath SinghSingh said the e-payments and various other modes of cashless transactions will lead to a corruption-free society.
08 Dec, 2016, 10.01 PM IST
Demonetisation: Gems & Jewellery Federation urges jewellers to go cashlessAll India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation urges gems & jewellery industry to go cashless in sync with PM's vision of Digital India and al...
07 Dec, 2016, 03.44 PM IST
Going cashless: Rising currency-GDP ratio key impedimentExperts feel that continuing rise in circulation of currencies in economic activities could well be a key impediment in transformation to a...
27 Nov, 2016, 04.31 PM IST
People reluctant but plastic money safer: Rathore on cashless economyWe want to take entire India towards cashless economy. We want to reduce the use of cash in the day-to-day lives. We want to go for plastic...
26 Nov, 2016, 08.29 PM IST