Opinion

UPI MDR is Crucial for India’s digital future

UPI MDR is Crucial for India’s digital future

Unnecessary politics has started over the introduction of a 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) on certain UPI person-to-merchant (P2M) payments…

September 17, 2026

From Bar to Bench: SC opens new path to become judge

There are few questions in the legal profession more consequential than this: when is a young lawyer ready to become…

September 17, 2026

Why is World enjoying destruction?

Last year, 2.45 lakh people, including over 76,000 innocent civilians, were killed in more than 50 wars.  This incident took…

September 16, 2026

The widening chasm between real media and reel media

The recent disaster in Nepal and several others before this across the globe, have introduced us to a new skyrocketing…

September 16, 2026

A fund designed not to pay

Nepal has asked the world for help, and there is a system meant for this kind of request. After a…

September 16, 2026

Reclaiming art: Traditional craft meets contemporary

New Delhi: When banana taped to a wall, a conceptual artwork titled Comedian by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan went viral…

September 15, 2026

BRICS 2026, a Modi-Style Masterclass In Diplomacy

The optics of Prime Minister Modi, General Secretary Xi and President Putin sharing a laugh at the New Delhi BRICS…

September 15, 2026

What BRICS Delhi Declaration Reflects

Hats off to India. Notwithstanding the devastating, disruptive & unending conflicts in Europe & West Asia and tense relationship between…

September 15, 2026

India’s GDP growth: ‘Well past take off’

The official estimate of India’s GDP for the first quarter of the current financial year (Q1 FY 27) at 7.8%…

September 15, 2026

Three nations hosted a World Cup. Two neighbours just hosted it better

Two World Cups happened this summer, and both of them borrowed the same idea, spread the tournament across more than…

September 15, 2026