NEW DELHI: In January transactions using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) nearly touched a record 9 billion. Of this nearly two out of three were for sums less than Rs500. And now UPI is going global. Recently, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which drives UPI, inked a deal with the Monetary Authority of […]Read More
Officially it started with Morgan Stanley arguing that this was ‘India’s Decade’. Around the same time, data published by PRICE (People’s Research on the Indian Consumer Economy) report, projected that India’s middle class would nearly double to 715 million by 2030-31 and then grow to a staggering 1 billion by 2047. And, coincidentally, the United […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth and final assessment report. It was a grim reminder to the world in general, and the topographically vulnerable regions, that the world was poised at the point of no return on climate change. If the world failed to collectively halve […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Little over a fortnight ago, Blume Ventures released its much-awaited report: Indus Valley. Inspired by the legendary Mary Meeker report on Internet Trends, the Indus Valley report offers the best insights into the Indian startup ecosystem. Many consider it the holy grail of Indian startups. This year it has set out the narrative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the apex global body monitoring climate set up under the aegis of the United Nations, submitted its sixth assessment report. The findings are a grim wake-up call to the world, especially for the developed countries—the largest polluters in per capita terms. The report maintains […]Read More
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