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Women in northern India said, ‘No toilet, no bride,’ and it worked
Through radio spots, billboards, posters and painted slogans on buildings, the “No Toilet, No Bride” campaign, launched by state authorities in 2005, encourages women and their families to demand that male suitors build a private latrine before they will agree to marriage.
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World Health Assembly: Pakistan presented as a model to countries
Pakistan was presented on Saturday as a model to countries attending the World Health Assembly as it became the first nation to conduct joint external evaluation of core capacities to respond to disease outbreaks and the level of preparedness to deal with pandemics.
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Paytm to start India payments bank operations from May 23
The company will transfer its wallet business, which has over 218 million mobile wallet users, to the newly incorporated entity -- PPBL -- under the payments bank licence awarded to a resident Indian, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of One97 Communications that owns Paytm.
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Poor ideas and poorer engineers are killing Indian startups
Six in ten recognized that India’s skilled workforce as an asset for businesses. Calls to slash the corporate tax rate from 30% to 25% is “expected to further boost startup activity,” IBM notes.
But despite all the efforts, the industry is built on a flawed foundation. More than 90% of startups in India fail within five years of founding, according to IBM.- Region
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With Android Go, Google tries again at emerging markets
On Wednesday, at the Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, Google said it's starting a new program, focused on phone software, instead of phones themselves. It's called Android Go (though that's just an internal name), and the goal is to make Google's blockbuster mobile software better cater to people on entry-level phones.
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85 Global Teams to Develop Transformative Technology Solutions for Women’s Safety
"We strongly believe that safety is a fundamental human right and should not be taken for granted. With the Women's Safety XPRIZE, we hope to unlock an exponential transformation in the way community members can empower safety for everyone through technology. We are delighted with the participation and look forward to seeing problem-solvers all over the world tackle this critical challenge as the competition unfolds," said Anu Jain, entrepreneur and champion for women's safety.
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Impact Investor Omidyar Network Shows Fintech must be more User Friendly
The report findings come as a result of in-depth interviews and human-centered design prototyping sessions with consumers across 30 communities in Nagaland, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, covering a mix of rural, semi-urban, and urban areas.
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India’s drugmakers need more time to meet international standards: industry group
U.S. and European Union regulators have called on India's $16 billion pharmaceutical industry to step up their efforts if it wants to continue to dominate the generic drugs sector.
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