UPI MDR 2026: What the 0.4% Fee Means for Merchants
UPI MDR 2026: What the 0.4% Fee Means for Merchants From October 15, 2026 , a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4% will apply to all Person-to-Merchant (P2M) UPI transactions…
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When AI Researchers Start Quitting: A Warning We Cannot Ignore
On September 15, 2026, Bilal Chughtai — a safety researcher at Google DeepMind who worked on AGI alignment — resigned and published a public statement warning that artificial…
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BRICS Summit 2026: New Delhi Declaration Explained
The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on September 12–13, 2026, concluded with the unanimous adoption of the 140-point New Delhi Declaration — the longest BRICS leaders'…
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The Centre Notifies Long-Awaited Rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
The government notified the rules that operationalise the country's digital personal data protection law, giving companies a clearer picture of how they must collect, store and…
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Six Students Dead. Building Was 50 Years Old. Basement Work Was Underway. And Delhi Has 28,000 More Buildings Just Like It.
1:30 PM, Sunday At approximately 1:30 PM on Sunday, September 7, 2026 , a five-storey building in Satya Niketan — a congested residential neighbourhood adjacent to Delhi…
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The Person With the Cheapest Phone in the Poorest District' India's Digital Rights Test, Pitched to the World in Samarkand
The Test India Set for Itself At the 12th Inter-Parliamentary Union Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians in Samarkand, Uzbekistan — held September 4–6 — BJP MP Raghav…
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The Supreme Court Cut the Bar to Become a Judge From Three Years of Practice to One.
Who gets to sit in judgment, and how soon, just changed. The Supreme Court has softened its own rule barring fresh law graduates from judicial service exams — trading a three-year…
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India Just Opened Its Conventional Missile Production to Private Firms.
For decades, building India's missiles was the work of the state. This week, the Defence Ministry decided to share that work with the private sector — and the list of systems on…
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Ladakh Finally Gets Its Own High Court Bench, With 44,557 Cases Waiting.
Justice delayed is often justice made distant. Ladakh's new bench is about geography as much as law. On August 20, 2026 , the Union Cabinet approved a permanent bench of the High…
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ISRO Is Getting Out of the Rocket Business — and Handing It to Private Industry.
India's space agency wants to build the frontier, not the factory. At Business Today's India@100 Economy Summit on August 21, 2026 , IN-SPACe chairman Pawan Kumar Goenka delivered…
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Chennai Runs Dry Most Summers. A $230M Loan Will Build a Pipe Grid No Indian City Has.
The story of urban water in India is usually about scarcity. This one is about the pipes — and how much water a city loses before it ever reaches a tap. On August 21, 2026 , the…
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For 50 Years Almost Everything Was an 'Industry.' The Supreme Court Just Narrowed It, 6-3.
A single word in labour law decides who gets the law's protection. The court has just made that word mean less. On August 20, 2026 , the Supreme Court, by a majority of 6 to 3 ,…
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