NPCI issued a circular on September 15 that ends six years of zero-cost UPI for merchants. From October 15, a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate applies to person-to-merchant transactions above Rs 2,000, cap...
India’s banking system is sitting on the largest cash surplus in its recorded history — roughly ₹11 lakh crore, or $115 billion, in excess rupee liquidity — and the RBI began actively draining i...
The Retailers Association of India released its latest Business Survey this week, and the topline is genuinely encouraging: retail grew 8% year-on-year in July, with store-level demand — the RAI’...
India’s gross GST collections came in at ₹1,99,853 crore for August, released September 1 — a healthy-looking 14.8% jump over last year, edging right up to the ₹2 lakh crore mark. On a headline ...
India’s GDP grew 7.8% in the April-June quarter, comfortably beating the RBI’s own 7% forecast, and most of the coverage this week has understandably led with that headline number. The det...
A wave of Indian D2C startups is using this festive season to launch new products — not on their own websites, not through a traditional retail rollout, but directly on Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamar...
Deloitte’s latest Consumer Signals India report has put a name to something a lot of category-level research has been circling around for a while without quite pinning down: “calibrated co...
India’s FMCG majors opened FY27 with numbers that, on the surface, look like a genuine turnaround. Hindustan Unilever posted 10% year-on-year revenue growth to ₹17,341 crore in the June quarter ...
Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon’s Great Indian Festival haven’t been officially confirmed for 2026 yet, but both platforms are expected to open within days of each other in th...
