Author: Deshwale Technology Desk

Every few months, a message starts doing the rounds on WhatsApp and social media claiming that UPI payments above a certain amount will now attract GST. People panic, screenshots get shared, and by the time it reaches your family group, it sounds like official news. Here’s the problem it isn’t true. It never has been. And this isn’t the first time this myth has come back to life. Let’s settle this clearly. As of today, UPI transactions in India do not attract any GST, no matter how much money you send. Whether you transfer ₹50 to a friend or ₹50,000…

For the last few years, most people’s idea of AI was simple: you type a question into a chatbot, and it types back an answer. Useful, but limited. That phase is now ending. The next wave of AI isn’t built to just answer questions. It’s built to actually do things on your behalf, from start to finish, without you supervising every single step. This shift has a name: agentic AI and in India, it’s moving from tech conferences into everyday life faster than most people realise. Here’s the simplest way to understand the difference. A chatbot can tell you how…

Ask most people why Europe keeps fining Google, dragging Meta to court, and writing thick privacy laws while America mostly lets its tech giants run free, and you will probably hear the same guess. Europeans are just more cautious, more bureaucratic, maybe even a little scared of technology itself. That guess is wrong, according to a new essay published this month in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The piece, written by Enrique Dans, a professor of innovation at IE Business School in Madrid, argues that Europe’s suspicion of Big Tech has nothing to do with fear of technology. It…

National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) has launched Demat 2.0, a next-generation securities platform aimed at supporting tokenised securities and enabling near real-time settlement through integration with the Reserve Bank of India’s wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) infrastructure. The launch is part of the market-wide pilot for tokenised corporate bonds announced at Global Fintech Fest 2026. The initiative was jointly inaugurated by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra and SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey. Built on distributed ledger technology (DLT), Demat 2.0 is designed to enable the simultaneous exchange of securities and funds through a delivery-versus-payment mechanism. This could help reduce operational…

Every website now greets you with the same question before you can read a single word: accept cookies, or reject them. Most people click “Accept All” out of habit, just to make the pop-up disappear. Very few actually try the other option and think about what happens next. The short answer is that nothing breaks. The longer answer is more interesting. The biggest myth about rejecting cookies is that you get logged out constantly or lose your shopping cart mid-browse. That does not happen. Cookies that are considered essential, the ones that keep you logged in while you are actively…

RRP Defence Limited has announced a strategic partnership with ESC Baz, an Israel-based global developer of electro-optical observation systems, to bring the company’s advanced ‘Diamond–Unique Observation System’ to the Indian market. The announcement was made on Tuesday at the Jio World Centre in Mumbai. The dais saw a mix of business and defence leadership come together. Present were Shri Prashant Deshmukh, Managing Director, RRP Defence; Shri Rajendra Chodankar, Chairman of the RRP Group of Companies; Mr Assaf Meir Mahlev, CEO of ESC Baz; Lt Gen Satinder Kumar Saini (Retd), Technical Advisor to the project; and Shri Rounaq Chodankar, Director. What…

Vice President Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan today launched ‘Gnani Artha’, a sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) stack developed by GNANI AI, at Uprashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Gnani Artha brings together two key technologies, Evon 3.3 and Plexus. Evon 3.3 is a large language model. Plexus is a platform that connects AI capabilities with real-world work and institutions. The launch marks another step in India’s growing efforts to build advanced technology within the country. It also highlights the role of Indian engineers in developing AI systems for wider use. Indian Technology Is Advancing Welcoming the launch, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan said…

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has achieved a major milestone through its citizen-centric initiative, Sanchar Saathi. The platform has helped recover more than 75,000 lost or stolen mobile handsets in a single month across India for the first time since its launch. Union Minister for Communications Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia welcomed the achievement. He highlighted the growing role of technology in helping citizens protect and recover their mobile devices. Importantly, the milestone reflects rising public trust in Sanchar Saathi. At the same time, it shows how digital tools can support citizens and strengthen coordination between government agencies, telecom service providers…

Vinny Arora, a finance professor at Delhi University, got two SMS messages from what looked like his own bank. Same wording. Same formatting. Same branding down to the logo. He almost didn’t bother checking twice until he did. One of them wasn’t from his bank at all. The only difference was a single letter, quietly swapped from uppercase to lowercase. He posted the discovery on Instagram last weekend, along with tips on how to catch it. The video went viral for good reason. But buried in the comments under his own post was a more uncomfortable question than the video…

Indian cybersecurity entrepreneur and ePROTECT360 Founder and CEO Kunal Panchamia has called for a collaborative approach towards artificial intelligence (AI) development for developing nations at the AI for Developing Countries Forum (AIFOD) Geneva Summit 2026. Speaking at the three-day summit held from August 12 to 14 at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Panchamia participated in a discussion titled “Should Small Nations Build, Buy or Share AI?” The session focused on the challenges faced by developing countries while building AI capabilities and explored whether nations should create their own AI infrastructure, adopt external solutions or collaborate through shared platforms. Panchamia…