UPI

Current Affairs for Week 35 of 2026

1. UPI completes ten years

   The Unified Payments Interface, launched by the National Payments Corporation of India on 25 August 2016, completed a decade. Annual transaction volume rose from 1.78 crore in FY17 to 24,162 crore in FY26 — a roughly 13,000-fold increase. The Finance Ministry said UPI is now operational in 11 countries and has become one of the most successful pillars of digital public infrastructure.

   Source: The Hindu