While many couples have still stuck to physical cash and gifts, some have switched to digital wallets like Google Pay and PhonePe to avoid any physical contact

Farmers reject Centre's 3-point draft proposal; call for pan-India protests on Dec 14 Farmer bodies protesting against the contentious farm bills have rejected the proposed amendments Centre suggested on Wednesday. The decision was followed by measures to further intesify the protests against the recently formed agriculture laws. Dissenting farmers, who have been protesting at borders of Delhi for the past 14 days, have said that they will block Delhi-Agra and Delhi-Jaipur highways on Decem...

Round the clock availability of RTGS will provide extended flexibility to businesses for effecting payments and will enable introduction of additional settlement cycles in ancillary payment systems, says RBI

The decision has been taken as payment through Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA) mechanism is investor friendly and enables faster completion of the process, Sebi said in a circular

The changes are expected to be for the better.  So, from RTGS, LPG cylinder price to policy premiums, here is what all is going to change.

Google will no longer allow peer-to-peer payments facility on its web app from January and start charging a fee for instant money transfers. The company will charge a fee of 1.5 percent or $.31 (whichever is higher) for the transfers through debit cards. Google, earlier in November, launched a redesigned Google Pay for Android and iOS users. The app not only has a new logo but also comes along with lots of new features. Watch the video for more.

Google has clarified that the money transfer fee is only applicable to users in the United States.

You may consider taking on debt due to low interest rates, even in these uncertain times. The question is how much and in what ways

India will be among a select few countries to have this facility. For this, payment system operators to be licenced on a perpetual basis, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das 

Parallel to the WTO proposal, SJM wants India to initiate measures under Section 66 of the Patents Act for the cancelation of the patent on Remdesivir

Under the partnership, HUL's retailers who use the company's Shikhar app will be able to avail of credit facility for payments to distributors through an integration with State Bank of India's (SBI) Yono app

To make the health insurance policies more affordable for customers, insurance regulator IRDA in 2019 specified insurance companies to add additional frequencies of premium payment by filing minor modifications in the existing policies

The governments need to come up with policy measures to reduce the economic and social fallout arising out of it, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report

Officials said Showik's statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and he was asked about his personal businesses, income, investments and financial dealings with his sister and Rajput

As per Winvesta, the US markets outperformed Indian markets by over 200 per cent in rupee terms in the last decade. Almost 40 per cent of the revenues of S&P-500 companies are from outside the US

To overcome the current challenges faced by the health system, a lot needs to change. First and foremost would be to build a strong pro-people non-commercialised public system as an alternative to the dominant for-profit sector

Loans against MF being secured loans have much lower interest rate than personal loans. You can get a loan typically upto 50% of the market value of your investment

Most commercial banks offer auto-sweep facilities on the SB account in which an auto sweep FD gets linked to your SB account and whatever excess amount you have in the account gets transferred automatically through a sweep out process to book an FD

Fiscal impact, or cost to government, of the relief package for coronavirus - touted to be worth Rs 20.97 lakh crore - is in the range of Rs 1.5- Rs 3.08 lakh crore, according to top ratings agencies

The most important component of the government's initiatives and recurring theme across most tranches of stimulus announcements was the thrust towards promoting private businesses by easing regulations and drafting new ones