Latest March 2026 News & Updates

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) India’s digital payment system Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is set to mark its 10th anniversary on April 11, after growing 12,000-fold in volume and over 4,000 times in terms of value.The payment system scaled from 17.86 million transactions worth Rs 6,952 crore in FY17 to 218.98 billion transactions amounting to nearly Rs 285 lakh crore in FY26, data from analytics firm Tracxn showed.Transactions rose gradually in the initial years — to 915 million in FY18 and…

Jaipur, April 2 (IANS) Rajasthan’s Mines Department has set a new benchmark by generating over Rs 10,394 crore in revenue in 2025–26, recording a 13 per cent growth rate and marking the highest-ever annual and monthly collections, officials said on Wednesday.​ Additional Chief Secretary (Mines and Petroleum) Aparna Arora said that, as per preliminary figures for the financial year 2025-26, the department has generated revenue exceeding Rs 10,394 crore.​She noted that this achievement is …

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) GIFT Nifty recorded its highest-ever monthly turnover of $129.80 billion in the month of March, surpassing its previous record of $106.22 billion set in October 2025, according to NSE International Exchange (IX) on Thursday.The exchange also said that monthly trading volume hit an all-time high of 2.82 million contracts in March, eclipsing the earlier peak of 2.17 million contracts set in April 2025.The March milestone is the latest in a series of records for the India-…