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Covid-19 pandemic, DPI enabled emergency support to be directly delivered to the digital wallets of those in need as well as helped facilitate swift vaccine distribution. The India Stack exemplifies this approach, combining digital ID, interoperable payments, a digital credentials ledger, and account aggregation," the report said quoting United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) and Honorary Patron of the GPFI Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.

Meta's Twitter (now X) rival Threads has rolled out a «keyword search» feature to more countries, including India, on both mobile and web — which the company started testing in Australia and New Zealand last week. Along with India, the company rolled out the feature in Argentina, Mexico, the UK, and the US.

World Bank on Friday lauded India's Digital Public Infrastructure in a G20 document. It said India’s Digital Public Infrastructure has had a transformative impact, extending far beyond just financial inclusion. The international financial institution in a document applauded India, stating what the country has achieved in just six years would have otherwise taken about five decades. India has developed some of the finest digital public goods infrastructure which could change lives the world over.

Landmark Cars share price rallied nearly 8% in early trade on Friday after the company signed a dealership agreement with Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M). Landmark Cars shares jumped as much as 7.94% to ₹782.75 apiece on the BSE. In an exchange filing on Thursday, Landmark Cars said it signed a Letter of Intent with M&M for opening a dealership in Howrah in the state of West Bengal.

Cheap internet, competitive telecom market, helped India to grow its mobile subscription by 7 million in the June quarter. With this, it emerged as the highest contributor of mobile subscribers in the world, says Ericsson report. India was followed by China and the US, said report.

Navarro, US former President Donald Trump's trade advisor, has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the White House committee investigating the US Capitol attack that took place on January 6, 2021, CNN reported. «It's a sad day for America, not 'cause… they were guilty verdicts because I can't come out and have an honest, decent conversation with the people of America,» Navarro told reporters outside the courthouse after he was interrupted by protesters. «People of America, I want you to understand that this is the problem we have right here — this kind of divide in our country between the woke Marxist left and everybody else here. And this is nuts,» CNN quoted Navarro saying. After the verdict was read, Navarro's lawyers sought a mistrial, raising concerns about any influence alleged protestors may have had when jurors took a break outdoors Thursday afternoon.

Reuters, it is noted that there are indications that this decline may be stabilizing. In August, global website traffic to the ChatGPT website, encompassing both desktop and mobile visits, saw a 3.2% decline, totaling 1.43 billion visits. This followed a roughly 10% reduction in traffic for each of the two preceding months, Reuters reported.

By Echo Wang and Svea Herbst-Bayliss

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has placed a $20 bet to signal that legal sports wagering is off and running in the Bluegrass State

Viacom18 aims to build a profitable sports business, having committed investments of over ₹34,000 crore for properties like Indian Premier League (IPL) digital rights, India bilateral cricket matches, Women's Premier League, Indian Super League, and 2024 Summer Olympics, said Viacom18 Sports CEO Anil Jayaraj, in an exclusive interview to ET. The company recently bagged the TV and digital rights to all the domestic and international cricket matches held in India for ₹5,963 crore till 2028. The company will be paying ₹67.76 crore per match, including ₹35.23 crore a match for digital and ₹32.53 crore per match for TV. Last year, the company won the digital rights to the IPL for a sum of ₹23,758 crore till 2027. «We want to run a profitable sports business.

G20 Summit in Delhi. Some New Delhi-based retailers have also started seeing fewer footfalls because of ramped up security in the city and its neighbourhoods, impacting sales. «The event is expected to impact the supply chains of various brands whose stocks are sourced from Noida and Delhi factories.

affordable healthcare to the citizen," said the official, adding that G20 is the platform for such discussions. However, this was already discussed during the G20 health ministers’ meeting held in Gandhinagar last month.

Ashok Leyland, a Hinduja Group flagship company, will channel its capital expenditure towards developing various alternative fuel technologies for commercial vehicles over the next 18 months, even as it works on lowering development costs with partners, executive chairman Dheeraj Hinduja said. The company, known for its trucks and buses, has earmarked a capex of ₹600-700 crore for this financial year, and a significant part of it will be directed towards creating products with alternative fuel systems, such as hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) trucks, electric intermediate-trucks, as well as vehicles running on compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Leyland’s net-zero emissions subsidiary Switch Mobility has rolled out a range of electric light commercial vehicles (the IeV range) for last-mile transportation.

₹1,000 for the passport to be brought back to Delhi. He could even authorize someone in Kolkata to collect it. But none of these options made sense since the mariner would lose time.

Investing.com -- Shares in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fell in early U.S. trading on Thursday, as a decline in the stock stretched into a second straight day following a report that China had banned government officials from using the tech giant's iPhone and other foreign-branded devices for work.

Apple fell nearly 4% on Thursday and sparked a rout in U.S. equities after reports that China has widened curbs on iPhone use by government staff in one of the U.S.

India (NPCI) at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai on Tuesday, to enable customers to withdraw cash without a debit or credit card. United Payments Interface, or UPI, is a mobile payment method operated by NPCI that allows the transfer of funds from one bank account to the other, instantly and for free.

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