Avinash Nair

The number of beneficiary families has steadily risen from 3.06 lakh in FY23 to 9.21 lakh in FY26

The shift in preference is unfolding alongside a broader growth story, as longer summers and changing consumption habits push ice cream beyond its traditional seasonal boundaries

Travel time between Vadodara and Mumbai will be reduced to 1.5 hours, claims the Railway Minister

India should not be overly concerned about weak foreign investment in the current global environment, says Ashok Kumar Lahiri

Investors from 90 countries have been onboarded in GIFT City

Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, UIDAI CEO Saurabh Vijay said they are working on proof-of-concepts, including one in the Middle East, to test the interoperability of Aadhaar infrastructure beyond India.

With around 45% of India's population living in rural areas and linked to the farm economy, a credit gap of about ₹1.3 lakh crore still remains, Krishnan said at the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai on Thursday.

The growing interest is partly driven by GIFT City's unified regulatory architecture, which allows payment companies to serve multiple financial-services businesses without having to navigate separate regulators, said IFSCA executive director Dipesh Shah

The shift comes against the backdrop of nearly 590 million PMJDY accounts — more than 54 per cent of which are held by women, with a large proportion of customers coming from tier 3 and tier 4 areas, according Rama Mohan Rao Amara, while speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai on Friday

IFSCA pilots Aadhaar face authentication in the UAE, enabling NRIs to invest digitally without physical documentation or visits.