{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_gdldhbsqbxj4wkdz2a6q","title":"‘No UPI Day’: Traders Suspend Digital Payments Across India Over MDR; FRTWA Warns Of ‘Black Diwali’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/no-upi-day-traders-suspend-digital-payments-across-india-over-mdr-frtwa-gdldhbsqbx","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_gdldhbsqbxj4wkdz2a6q","seq":1404788,"kind":"article","title":"‘No UPI Day’: Traders Suspend Digital Payments Across India Over MDR; FRTWA Warns Of ‘Black Diwali’","url":"https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/no-upi-day-traders-suspend-digital-payments-across-india-over-mdr-frtwa-warns-of-black-diwali","summary":"Mumbai: Traders and retailers across several parts of the country observed ‘No UPI Day’ on Friday, October 2, to protest the proposed transaction charges/MDR on UPI payments. Thousands Join Protest The Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association (FRTWA), which called for the protest, said thousands of garment traders, retailers and shopkeepers participated by keeping UPI transactions suspended for the day. FRTWA president Viren Shah said preliminary reports indicated…","published":"2026-10-02T17:57:27Z","seen":"2026-10-02T18:06:50Z","lang":"en","country":"IN","source":{"id":"kite-freepressjournal-in-e26f41","name":"freepressjournal.in","domain":"freepressjournal.in","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q7735208","name":"The Free Press Journal","type":"newspaper","country":"IN","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-freepressjournal-in-e26f41","topics":["mumbai news","topnews","fpj shorts","google"],"entities":[{"id":"Q212843","name":"Upi","type":"other"}],"image":"https://media.assettype.com/freepressjournal/2026-10-02/qe5shkjb/No-UPI-Day-Market-Protest.png?w=280","mentions":3,"story":"st_gdldhbsqbxj4wkdz2a6q","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.75,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.6899999976158142,"political":0.3700000047683716}]}