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India Ends the Era of Completely Free UPI — But Most Payments Will Still Cost Nothing

India is changing one of the most successful digital-payment models in the world.

By EuroAsia.News · 17 September 2026 · 12:09 · 3 min read

• India
• Payments
• UPI

BRICS Pay Moves From Talk Toward Reality - Finance Chiefs Back Connected Payment Systems

BRICS has taken another concrete step toward building a cross-border payment architecture connecting its member economies. Meeting in India ahead of this weekend’s leaders’ summit in New Delhi, BRICS finance ministers and central-bank governors formally backed continued work on making national payment systems interoperable and developing faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 23:00 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• BRICS
• Dollar

India Puts a Permanent Eye Over Asia - Why EOS-05 Is More Than Another Satellite Launch

India has successfully placed a new type of eye above the Earth — one designed not simply to pass over a region once or twice a day, but to observe enormous areas repeatedly from almost 36,000 kilometers above the planet.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:56 · 3 min read

SCO at 25 - From Border-Security Group to a Eurasian Powerhouse

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks its 25th anniversary at its summit in Bishkek with China, Russia, India and the major powers of Central Asia around the same table. What began in 2001 as a security organisation of six states has developed into a Eurasian grouping representing more than 3.4 billion people, around a quarter of the global economy and some of the world's largest reserves of energy and strategic minerals. The central question for its next 25 years is whether that enormous potential can be converted into deeper economic integration.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 08:42 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Middle Corridor
• Nordic Route
• Trans Caspian
• Energy

Vladivostok 2026: Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Opens With Asia at the Centre

The 11th Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok on 1 September with representatives from more than 70 countries expected, major delegations from across Asia and a growing pipeline of investment projects. After three successive years of record deal-making, Moscow is presenting the Russian Far East not as a remote frontier but as one of the principal gateways connecting Russia with China, India, Southeast Asia and the Arctic.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 14:40 · 3 min read

• Eastern Economic Forum
• EEF 2026
• Vladivostok
• Russia
• Russian Far East
• investment
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Prabowo Subianto
• Vladimir Putin
• Northern Sea Route
• Eurasia

Amaravati - India’s Most Livable City

India’s Attempt to Build the City of the Future

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 10:20 · 2 min read

India Considers Connecting UPI with Alipay+

India is considering linking its Unified Payments Interface with Alipay+, a move that could dramatically expand how Indian travellers pay abroad.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 16:45 · 1 min read

• UPI
• Alipay+
• India
• Payments

Skyroot: The Company Opening India’s Commercial Space Age

India’s space programme is no longer exclusively controlled by the state. Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace has opened a new commercial era by becoming the first private Indian company to place a domestically developed rocket into orbit.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 16:05 · 1 min read

• India
• space
• Skyroot
• launch