India Launches UPI at Supermarkets in Qatar:
UPI (Unified Payments Interface) has been launched at Lulu Group’s supermarkets in Qatar. The launch was led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, and comes just weeks after UPI was introduced at Hamad International Airport’s duty-free stores. With this, Qatar becomes the eighth country to adopt UPI, bolstering cross-border trade, travel, and financial integration.The new launch enables real-time, low-cost digital transactions at all Lulu Group outlets across Qatar, allowing Indian residents, tourists, and businesses to make payments using India’s homegrown UPI system.
The initiative is spearheaded by NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), in partnership with Qatar National Bank (QNB) and Japanese payment gateway NETSTARS.
