Explained: India’s Startup Ecosystem 2025
- India
- October 24, 2025

RBI’s Draft Master Direction on Prepaid Payment Instruments, 2026 aims to make India’s wallet and prepaid payment market safer. However, it may also raise compliance costs, limit small fintech firms and reduce access for low-income users.
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India’s biodiversity story began long before modern borders. Fossil evidence now shows how ancient plant lineages survived India’s drift from Gondwanaland, evolved over millions of years, and helped shape the tropical flora of Asia.
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The government brought the 131st Amendment Bill and the Delimitation Bill even without a secure two-thirds majority because the move served both legislative and political purposes. It sought to pass the package, build pressure on the opposition, and, if defeated, shape a public narrative that the opposition had stalled women’s reservation and electoral reform.
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NITI Aayog’s report on improving R&D culture in state universities reshapes the debate on the ease of doing research and development in India. However, while the report diagnoses the problem well and offers a structured reform agenda, it remains weaker on funding design, state-level differentiation, and the political economy of university autonomy.
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RBI’s latest discussion paper shows that India’s digital payments challenge is no longer only about cyber-security. Instead, it is about frauds that manipulate users into authorising transfers themselves. Accordingly, this ABC Live critical analysis examines the data, the four proposed safeguards, and how RBI’s 17 consultation questions should be answered.
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India has added new repositories under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. This ABC Live analysis explains what the move means for biodiversity records, research access, legal tracking, and benefit-sharing in India.
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