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IndiaMART promotes payment gateway for SMEs
MUMBAI: IndiaMART has launched its latest digital-led campaign that focuses on various benefits of Payment Gateway, Pay with IndiaMART.
By showcasing various real businesses from across the country which are listed on its platform, IndiaMART has taken an explanatory route to highlight how IndiaMART’s small and medium businesses (SMEs) have been able to grow their business by using the online payment gateway.
Unlike any other payment gateway, Pay with IndiaMART allows merchants to receive payment instantly in their account even on a bank holiday. Apart from this, the campaign also focusses on the benefits like the availability of EMI options, ability to accept advance payments and ease of operating across geographical limitations.
IndiaMART VP marketing Sumit Bedi says, “We realised that millions of SMEs in India are largely untouched by the benefits of fin-tech. Hence, Pay with IndiaMART, a payment gateway, was launched, which could cater to their requirements. We traveled across the country to collect feedback from the users of the service. These businesses told us how the features of Pay with IndiaMART was assisting them in growing and making it big, like the availability of EMI option and ability to collect instant payment even on a holiday. And thus, through a series of videos under the #BadaKhelJao campaign we want to highlight these success stories and urge businesses to go digital to aid their growth.”
Under the umbrella campaign of #BadaKhelJao, the video would be followed up by five more videos which would be launched in the coming weeks.
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MS Dhoni joins Cars24’s Crashfree India as Goodwill Ambassador
Cricketing legend lends his voice to the fight against road fatalities in India.
MUMBAI: MS Dhoni has traded his cricket whites for a new kind of captaincy, one that aims to save lives on India’s roads. The former India captain has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Crashfree India, Cars24’s national road safety initiative. The move brings one of the country’s most trusted and disciplined public figures to a cause that desperately needs both credibility and urgency.
India continues to record the highest number of traffic fatalities globally. In 2024 alone, 1,80,000 people lost their lives on Indian roads, one every three minutes. The country has roughly 1% of the world’s vehicles but accounts for 11 per cent of global road deaths. Shockingly, 66 per cent of those killed were between 18 and 34 years old, the most productive age group, and nearly 10,000 were school students. Seven in ten fatalities were linked to overspeeding.
Dhoni, known for his calm judgment under pressure, did not mince words when speaking about the issue. “A vehicle gives you freedom, but it also gives you responsibility,” he said. “On our roads, too many people still see safety as a rule to follow only when someone is watching. That mindset has cost us far too much.”
He added: “We already know what is going wrong. We know how many lives are being lost. What we need now is not more excuses. We need more responsibility, more discipline, and more respect for life.”
For Cars24, the association goes beyond a celebrity endorsement. Founder and CEO Vikram Chopra described Dhoni’s involvement as a game-changer: “His understanding of Indian roads is grounded in lived experience. He holds us to a higher standard and his involvement challenges us to push this mission further.”
Crashfree India aims to shift the national conversation on road safety from reaction to prevention, from accepting deaths as routine to treating them as the urgent failure they are. With Dhoni on board, the initiative gains a powerful, trusted voice that transcends statistics and connects directly with millions of Indians.
In a country where dangerous driving is too often mistaken for confidence, Dhoni’s message is refreshingly clear: true strength lies in control, discipline, and respect for life. When one of India’s most respected captains decides to lead this fight, the conversation suddenly becomes much harder to ignore.
The roads just got a new captain. And this time, the goal is not to win a trophy but to save lives.
