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Analysis: India’s Cooking Fuel Crisis Needs a Multi-Fuel Clean Energy Strategy
A multi-fuel strategy built around electrification, biogas and solar can offer energy security, affordability and fiscal relief to India.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: India’s AI Deal With the UAE Challenges U.S. Cloud Dominance
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Miller Center Capital Backs Manikstu Agro to Expand Goat Farming Livelihoods in Rural India
The catalytic loan will help scale government-subsidized livestock units for smallholder farming households.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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- lending, scale, smallholder farmers
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Press Release: British International Investment Unveils $300 Million Platform to Accelerate Indian Renewable Power Generation
The new platform to be called North Star, is the first investment made through British Climate Partners, a £1.1 billion climate finance initiative launched by BII last month as part of its new five-year strategy.
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- Energy, Technology
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Indian Founders Flip Y Combinator’s $25,000 AI Tokens for Quick Bucks
A grey market for discounted AI credits has emerged following Y Combinator's Startup School in India. Attendees are selling free credits for AWS, Azure, and OpenAI at reduced prices, with some facing activation issues and restrictions. These messages are from founders, engineers and student builders.
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- Technology
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Analysis: India’s VCs are Beating American Investors at Home
A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
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- Technology
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Press Release: IFAD and Government of India Launch Eight-Year Roadmap to Expand Investments and Scale Incomes in Rural Areas
The new Country Strategic Opportunities Programme sets two strategic objectives: enhancing the social, economic and climatic resilience of rural communities; and strengthening the knowledge systems that enable proven models to be scaled domestically and shared across the Global South.
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- Agriculture
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Shell Foundation, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, and Amazon India Announces New Programme to Empower Women Micro Entrepreneurs through Market Connect and Clean Energy Access
his collaboration addresses these challenges by connecting women-led businesses to new customers through Amazon’s Saheli program, which offers lower selling fees and specialized support, including account management and training.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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