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UPI Transactions Touch Fresh All-Time High At 21.7 Bn In January

India, Feb. 1 -- Maintaining the momentum since the first month of the year, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recorded 21.7 Bn transactions worth INR 28.33 Lakh Cr in the month of January, marginally ... Read More


Meesho's Post-IPO Reality Check

India, Feb. 1 -- "We will not sacrifice platform health for quarterly optics. We will not pretend that accounting profits are the same as cash generation. The same discipline that brought us here will... Read More


Budget 2026: Less Than 50% Of IndiaAI Mission Outlay Used In FY26

India, Feb. 1 -- The Union Budget tabled in the Parliament today showed that only 40% of the proposed outlay for IndiaAI Mission in FY26 was used. While the Centre set aside INR 2,000 Cr for the initi... Read More


Tax Holiday Till 2047: How India Wants To Power The World's Cloud

India, Feb. 1 -- Financial minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech proposed that foreign cloud service provider companies will be given a tax holiday till 2047. She noted the services to Indi... Read More


Budget 2026 Brings AVGC In Focus, But Execution Risks Loom

India, Feb. 1 -- It seems that the government wants to push India's animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector further into the policy mainstream. What remains unclear is whether this ... Read More


Budget 2026: Share Buyback Tax Overhaul Brings Relief to Minority Shareholders

India, Feb. 1 -- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major overhaul of the tax treatment of share buybacks today, marking a shift in how India taxes capital returns. The changes are aimed ... Read More


Budget 2026: Crypto Startups To Be Penalised For Non-Disclosures

India, Feb. 1 -- While the Union Budget 2026-27 did not bring up cryptocurrencies and virtual digital assets as a prominent area of focus, Nirmala Sitharaman proposed increasing the reporting complian... Read More


Budget 2026: What Indian Startup Ecosystem Wants From FM Nirmala Sitharaman

India, Feb. 1 -- Indian founders and investors will be closely watching as finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman steps into the Parliament today to present her ninth consecutive Budget. After a year of... Read More


Union Budget 2026 Loves AI Platforms. But What About AI Startups?

India, Feb. 1 -- When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth consecutive Union Budget, artificial intelligence was not positioned as a startup opportunity or a disruptive frontier. In... Read More


Budget 2026 Eases Tax Norms For Apple, Electronics OEMs Manufacturing In India

India, Feb. 1 -- As part of the Union Budget, the Indian government has proposed relaxing laws that previously taxed contract manufacturers of foreign companies for owning equipment. This comes as a w... Read More