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Smartphone showing UPI QR code on a shop counter beside a card machine

Payments

Govt locks 0.4% UPI MDR above ₹2,000 from 15 October

Merchants pay the charge, consumers stay free; small retailers and petrol pumps scramble for exemptions before the festive rush.

Kabir Menon · 17 Sep · 4 min read

Delivery bags and scooter parked outside a small urban grocery entrance at dusk

Platforms

Axis AMC exits DMart over quick-commerce squeeze

Pure Contra PMS fully sold Avenue Supermarts in July, citing format wars that could hit medium-term margins.

Rhea Kapoor · 12 Sep · 4 min read

Smartphone screen showing UPI payment confirmation inside a messaging app interface

Payments

WhatsApp Pay more than doubles UPI volumes, enters top-eight apps

July tally hits 167.89 million transactions worth Rs 12,957 crore after NPCI onboarding curbs were lifted.

Kabir Menon · 21 Aug · 4 min read

Platforms

ONDC had a quiet year. That might be the good news.

The protocol did not kill Amazon. It also did not die. India's public digital commerce layer is settling into the unglamorous job: being a pipe some apps use.

Rhea Kapoor · 11 Aug · 6 min read