Festive cheer! Odisha govt employees to get September salary in advanceOdisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has instructed officials to release government employees' salaries on September 26, ahead of the D...
24 Sep, 2025, 01.44 PM IST
Bengal govt to disburse early salaries ahead of Durga pujaAhead of Durga Puja, the West Bengal government will disburse September salaries to its employees on September 24 and 25, encompassing sala...
17 Sep, 2025, 12.22 PM IST
GST rates boost: Fintechs, lenders hope for a big bang festive sale seasonDigital payment and consumer lending startups anticipate a boost in transactions this festive season following the government's GST cuts on...
05 Sep, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Ganapati & Onam festivals: Central govt employees in these states to receive salary in advance; check datesThe central government will disburse August 2025 salaries, wages, and pensions early for its employees and pensioners in Maharashtra and Ke...
23 Aug, 2025, 04.24 PM IST
Digital payments show strong uptick buoyed by wider adoption of credit during festive seasonDuring this year’s festive season sales, credit cards and credit-based payment instruments like pay-later products saw a significant increa...
08 Nov, 2024, 09.22 AM IST
Credit card usage sees a big jump this festive seasonDuring this year's festive season sales, there was a significant rise in the usage of credit cards and credit-based payment instruments suc...
14 Oct, 2024, 11.14 PM IST
Diwali magic: Online platforms get back their bang after muted startAccording to data from Unicommerce, which helps businesses sell online, order volumes for e-commerce grew about 37% during the festive seas...
13 Nov, 2023, 08.29 AM IST
Central govt employees to get salary, pension in advance in these states; check dates hereIn an Office Memorandum dated August 14, 2023, the Ministry of Finance said, "In view of the ‘ONAM’ and ‘Ganpati’ festival, the Government ...
16 Aug, 2023, 04.01 PM IST
In times of social distancing, most Indians stay away from cash purchases this DiwaliAt leading brick-and-mortar retail chains including Reliance Retail, Tata-owned Croma, Vijay Sales and Sangeetha Mobiles, too, debit and cr...
21 Nov, 2020, 08.22 AM IST
UP approves special festival package, advance payments to state employees"Keeping in view the broad objectives of the special festival package for central government employees and the scheme for making advance pa...
16 Oct, 2020, 09.37 PM IST
Govt offers staff Rs 10,000 festival advance to spend up to March 31, 2021As per the government, the two proposals are designed in a way that they can stimulate demand in a fiscally prudent way by advancing/front-...
12 Oct, 2020, 02.50 PM IST
Credit cards, EMI payments sparkle during Diwali saleConsumers made up for initial slowdown during the run-up to the festival with last-minute buys.
01 Nov, 2019, 08.58 AM IST
Prime Minister Modi to address 30,000 people at Singapore Fintech festPrime Minister Modi will be in Singapore from November 14 to 15 to attend a series of summits, including the East Asian summit and ASEAN me...
12 Nov, 2018, 05.25 PM IST
Dineout's Great Indian Restaurant Festival is back!Enjoy flat 50% discount while dining at India's top 2000+ restaurants. Dineout, India's largest table reservation platform by Times Interne...
07 Feb, 2018, 12.09 PM IST
Digital payments ride UPI wave; cards and wallets falter slightlyPrepaid payment instruments or wallets have recorded 91.2 mn transactions for the month of Nov against 96.2 mn in the previous month, a dro...
08 Dec, 2017, 03.43 PM IST
Festive spirit keeps e-wallets on a highThe festive week throughout Diwali, Dhanteras and Bhai Dooj this month saw a jump of three-four times in peer-to-peer payments through digi...
30 Oct, 2017, 01.27 AM IST
Fintech companies get ready to cash in this festive season"We expect the total ecommerce industry sales during the festive season to grow by up to 50% over last year. The top two players will conti...
18 Sep, 2017, 08.08 AM IST