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India opts for digital transactions; new users kick in

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     Digital newbies are emerging due to severe cash-crunches amid the nationwide lockdown. The last three weeks have seen a 42 percent spike in the digital transactions through apps, reports say. By Neetu Saini The nation-wide lockdown has facilitated a deep penetration      of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) apps for monetary transactions in the past few […]

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Digital divide troubles UPI users in Karnataka

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Despite the increasing popularity of digital transactions, rural Karnataka is crippled by poor digitization. By Surbhi Shah Bengaluru: A coconut seller in the city has an option for online payment but a restaurant in the countryside does not even have a machine to swipe credit cards. Nothing illustrates the rural-urban divide in digitisation better. “In […]

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