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The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is India’s preeminent digital payments system. In July 2026 alone, it processed 2,366 crore transactions — or around 7,600 transactions per second — in total worth nearly ₹30 lakh crore. Across the 2025-26 financial year, UPI handled 24,160 crore transactions worth ₹314 lakh crore, accounting for 85% of the country’s digital payment transactions by volume. According to the International Monetary Fund, UPI also accounted for a stunning 49% of all real-time payments worldwide in 2025.How does UPI work?Say Selvi has an account in Violin Bank and Shankar has an account in Flute Bank. Selvi wants…

The 30th edition of the BWF World Championships 2026 took place from August 17 to August 23 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, India. (TOI) NEW DELHI: At the recently concluded BWF World Championships, players weighed every word as carefully as their drop shots. But beyond the glare of the cameras, another contest was quietly unfolding. Standing a step behind the athletes were the interpreters, almost invisible yet carrying the immense responsibility of ensuring that nuance survived the journey from Mandarin, Japanese or Korean into English.At a World Championships, where every word can travel as quickly as…

The Conservatives and Reform UK, however, are preparing to attack his policies, questioning how they will be funded and whether there will be new tax rises.Kemi Badenoch reshuffled her shadow cabinet team on Monday in preparation for this moment. To sharpen her party’s attacks on Labour over its handling of tax and the economy she promoted Andrew Griffith to be her new shadow chancellor.The Conservatives are making much of his past jobs in business. Before entering politics he was chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Sky, and chair of Just Eat.He is promising a Conservative government that would…

Mumbai: While fatal road crashes caused by driver distraction or error are typically treated as negligence cases, the use of Section 105 of BNS—usually reserved for extreme recklessness such as drunk driving—in the case of an 8-year-old boy being run over in Bandra by nutritionist Megha Rawal, has sparked conversation over whether speaking on a mobile phone while speeding amounts to legal “knowledge” that one is likely to cause death.Culpable homicide not amounting to murder remains a severe, non-bailable offence triable exclusively by a sessions court attracting a maximum sentence of 10 years. In contrast, causing death by negligence is…

In a significant update, one-third of registered voters in Delhi have been removed from the draft electoral roll. NEW DELHI: Nearly one in three registered voters in Delhi has been struck off the draft electoral roll published by Election Commission on Monday after the completion of the special intensive revision enumeration exercise.According to the draft roll, Delhi now has 97.5 lakh electors, against 1.4 crore at the start of the exercise in June. As many as 47.5 lakh electors, or 32.8% of the electorate, have been struck off as their enumeration forms could not be collected during the house-to-house verification.The…

Environment and ecology minister Ramalinga Reddy directed officials to inspect apartment complexes and initiate criminal proceedings against those found violating pollution-control norms Bengaluru: Large apartment communities across the state, including Bengaluru, have been given 15 days to comply with pollution-control norms and make their sewage treatment plants (STPs) fully operational, failing which they could face criminal action.Industrial clusters have been given three to six months to comply, as govt steps up its crackdown on sewage discharge and pollution of lakes, rivers and other waterbodies. Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), during a review of pollution levels in the state Monday,…

Hyderabad: Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS) chief Kalvakuntla Kavitha alleged the previous BRS govt had resorted to large scale corruption and looted the public money during its rule in the name of Bangaru Telangana and vowed to continue fight against the ruling Congress party. She said the BRS failed as principal opposition party and colluded with the ruling Congress party and asked why the BRS leaders were not questioning corruption in the ruling Congress govt.Addressing at Panchajanya Sankalpa Sabha public meeting at Nizamabad on Monday, Kavitha said people need a ‘Bahujana Telangana’, not Bangaru Telangana. She also asserted that she launched…

Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay will announce the relocation of the assembly and secretariat soon. CHENNAI: Chief minister C Joseph Vijay will announce in the ongoing assembly session, the state govt’s plan to relocate the legislative assembly and secretariat from Fort St George, a source told TOI. The announcement is expected to be made under ‘rule 110’, which allows the CM to inform the assembly a decision without debate.The govt has shortlisted three sites for the proposed relocation: Highways Research Station campus in Guindy, Foreshore Estate and a place opposite Fintech City at Nandambakkam. The govt owns land parcels measuring…

Ahmedabad: The undergraduate (UG) admission process conducted through Gujarat Common Admission Services (GCAS) has been completed, leaving around 1 lakh seats vacant across universities in the state. At Gujarat University alone, approximately 54,000 students have been allotted admission, while more than 10,000 UG seats remain vacant.This year, the state continued to conduct UG admissions through GCAS platform. Initially, the process was planned to be transferred to individual universities after three rounds following protests by student organisations. However, four rounds were conducted through GCAS, followed by another four rounds after the admission process was handed over to the universities, taking the…

Bhubaneswar: Of 12 blood samples tested for scrub typhus on Monday, 11 tested negative and one was reactive. The reactive sample from Angul district would be sent to ICMR-National Institute of Health Research, Bhubaneswar, sources said.Dr Madan Mohan Pradhan, chief district medical and public health officer, Angul, said no positive case has been detected so far from Sanbagdari village under Pallahara block in Angul district. “We will send one sample, which became reactive during Elisa test, to ICMR-NIHR for further confirmation,” he added.The health and family welfare department on Monday said there is no need for panic or unnecessary concern…