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India is facing a quandary in enforcing long-delayed rules to curb the dominance of PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s booming digital UPI payments market. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a special unit of the central bank, wants to cap market share of any player at 30% in the Unified Payments Interface ecosystem. With Paytm, the third leading player on the UPI charts, fighting for its survival, the NPCI faces a unique challenge to get PhonePe and Google Pay to lower…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny viewers have been left stumped by a major “plot hole” in the new Harrison Ford sequel.The film, the fifth entry in the adventure franchise, sees Dr Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr (Ford) come up against an old Nazi adversary (Mads Mikkelsen) in 1969.Spoilers follow for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny... you have been warned!Most of the plot of the…

Wordle 701 answer for May 21: Wordle has completed 700 unique puzzles but it has no interest in celebrating as it brings out yet another tough puzzle. But then again, this is exactly why we love this game. Today's word plays on obscurity and letter arrangement and that's why it is an unusual puzzle. With most players focusing on repeated letters and uncommon letters, this puzzle can blindside them and make them lose their precious streak. And if you have been stuck solving it, then do not worry. We are here to save your…

Alas, GPT-4 can't fix the Argentine economy.It was worth a try. Nobody in Argentina seems to be able to do it. It has fallen into disarray so many times that despair has become indifference. Even the jokes are drying up. (ChatGPT offered this one: Why do Argentine economists make the best magicians? Because they can make your money disappear.) To be fair, this is (probably) only the first time this century that inflation in Argentina has hit triple digits. It is far from the 1980s price increases in the…

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Tomorrow marks the next evolution in the career of James Gunn, with the filmmaker officially assuming his executive responsibilities as the co-CEO of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran. Of course, there’s also the small matter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney Plus to content with, as well as next May’s trilogy-capping Vol. 3. There’s not going to be a lot of sleep for the newlywed between now and then, but we can at least…

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint”, came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's newest flagship observatory.The internet immediately lit up with theories and speculation. Some on the wild fringe even claimed it as evidence for “alien megastructures” of unknown origin.Luckily, our team at the University of Sydney had already been studying…

Wordle 463 answer for September 25: While the Sunday puzzle is not that tough, if you’re not feeling up for it and still need that winning streak to keep going, just check these Wordle hints, clues and solution. Wordle 463 answer for September 25: While the puzzle today is not that difficult to solve, it has one unique problem that will confuse you the world's end. Today's Wordle might ruin your Sunday morning, if you're not careful. And nobody likes their…

Ana de Armas is perplexed by the NC-17 rating assigned to her upcoming Netflix film, Blonde, which is based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. A movie receives an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America when it has gratuitous violence, obscene sex and/or nudity, and/or coarse language. The Cuban actor claimed she has seen films with considerably more explicit content. “I didn’t understand why that happened,” she said in her L’Officiel cover story. “I can tell you a number of…

Were different ways of teaching the order of operations responsible for confusion? Credit: Shutterstock For about a decade now, mathematicians and mathematics educators have been weighing in on a particular debate rooted in school mathematics that shows no signs of abating. …

Just because it's a Sunday - the day of rest - don't think for one second that Wordle will take a day off. In fact, far from being a nice relaxing teaser to keep you entertained over breakfast, Wordle 407 is a fiendishly difficult puzzle that might require some help. Fortunately, that's where Express Online comes in. If you need a hint or two for Wordle 407 on July 31, simply head to the bottom of the page. And don't worry, it's not cheating, because these clues are spoiler-free.Wordle tasks players with figuring out a…