India's Digital Stack Crosses Borders: UPI Reaches Uzbekistan as Home Front Gets Its Own Time Standard

India's Digital Public Infrastructure — the stack of homegrown systems like UPI, Aadhaar, and NavIC — is evolving from a domestic success story into a geopolitical export tool. This weekend, the thesis got its strongest evidence yet.

Evidence For

• UPI lands in Uzbekistan. After PM Modi's two-day Tashkent visit, NPCI International Payments Ltd signed a commercial pact with Uzbekistan's National Interbank Processing Centre to enable Indian UPI apps to scan Uzbekistan's...