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Smart Campaign Recognizes Five Indian Financial Institutions for Exceptional Standards of Client Care
Arohan, Grameen Koota, Janalakshmi, Sonata and Utkarsh Awarded Smart Certification at Inclusive Finance India Summit in New Delhi.
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CSR and Financial Literacy in India
Abright orange bus is parked in Maralur Dinne, a village in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district. In the shade of that bus, 32-year-old Varalakshmi is trying her best to sell a garland of plastic flowers for Rs.20 to a woman who wants a discount.
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Tata Trusts Ties Up With Khan Academy to Offer Free Online Education
Tata Trusts, the principal shareholder of the $109b Tata group is endeavouring to break out of its 'traditional brick and mortar' approach to education by partnering with Khan Academy, an American online teaching provider that already reaches out to 2.6 crore student worldwide.
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Sanofi’s Unveils Made in India Injectable Polio Vaccine
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has unveiled ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) manufactured by its affiliate Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad.
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eBay Founder’s Philanthropic Firm to Invest $350M in India
Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investing firm of billionaire eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, plans to invest over $350 million (Rs.2,333 crore) in for-profit ventures and non-profit organisations in India by 2020.
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World Leaders Urged to Cut Air Pollution to Save Lives in Poor Countries
World governments have been urged to tackle air pollution in poorer countries by greening cities, reducing traffic and adopting better diets, and told that this will also rein in climate change, which global health specialists estimate will cause at least 250,000 additional deaths a year by 2030.
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Nucleus Launches Offline Digital Cash Solution in India
Adding another tool to push the Indian economy from cash to digital, Bombay Stock Exchange-listed banking and financial solutions company Nucleus Software Exports Ltd on Wednesday launched an offline digital cash solution technology, PaySe.
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In India, IBM’s Watson Will Aid Cancer Care Where Doctors Are Scarce
IBM IBM +0.00% and a large hospital system in India have partnered to diagnose and treat cancer care in a country of 1.2 billion residents who often cannot access oncologists, leaving their diseases undetected and untreated.
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