India report: Modi government launches UPI services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius

Listen to the SBS Hindi news from India. 12/02/2024

Union Minister For Culture, Tourism And DoNER G. Kishan Reddy makes a payment through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to a vegetable seller at a roadside market, at Jubilee Hills, in Hyderabad on 4 February. (ANI Photo via Hindustan Times/Sipa USA) Credit: Hindustan Times/Sipa USA

• India launches UPI interface RuPay in Sri Lanka and Mauritius
  
• The BJP-led central government's award of Bharat Ratna to two former PMs, Choudhary Charan Singh and P V Narasimha Rao, causes a stir among opposition ranks
  
• Jayant Singh, the grandson of the late Choudhary Charan Singh, decides to contest the Lok Sabha polls alongside the BJP
  
• Farmers renew their agitation against the central government
  
• India loses the Under-19 World Cup finals to Australia by 74 runs

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