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For 2023-24, the digital payments landscape has demonstrated remarkable expansion, the finance ministry said in a statement.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) remains the cornerstone of India's digital payment ecosystem, contributing to 80 per cent of the retail payments across the country, it said.
The total transaction volume exceeded 131 billion and the value exceeded Rs ?200 lakh crore for the 2023-24.
Its ease of use, combined with a growing network of participating banks and fintech platforms, has made UPI the preferred mode of real-time payments for millions of users across the country, it said.
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The order expands on the executive order signed by President Donald Trump during his early days in office setting out steps toward banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. The directive has been challenged in court.
Initial but incomplete counts of transgender troops easily identifiable through medical records is in the hundreds, US officials said. That's a tiny fraction of the 2.1 million troops .

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Bivekananda Biswas: Assam gears up for a humdinger this time

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