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India’s Mobile Wallet Market Likely to Cross $11B Mark By 2022
Owing to increasing penetration of smartphones as well as tablets, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing mobile wallet markets in the Asia Pacific region. 6Wresearch, a global market research and consulting firm, said in a report that India's Mobile Wallet Market is projected to reach $11.5 billion by 2022.
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Over 8 Lakh Medical Shops to Be Shut on October 14th to Protest Online Sale of Drugs
As fast growing e-pharmacies eat into the incomes of lakhs of small chemist outlets, nearly 850,000 of them will remain shut on 14 October to protest against the online sale of drugs.
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New Initiative Encouraging Indian Diaspora to Invest Launched
A new investment initiative, announced by President Barack Obama during his New Delhi visit early this year, that makes it easier for the Indian diaspora to invest in small and medium businesses in India has been launched here.
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Economics Nobel Winner Strong Critic of India’s Poverty Line
Angus Deaton, the Scottish-American Princeton professor who won the Economics Nobel on Monday "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", has a strong India connect with several of his academic papers and articles focused on the country and based on data collected here. Deaton (69) has worked with Jean Dreze of Delhi School of Economics, Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Jishnu Das of World Bank on areas like poverty, healthcare, nutrition, etc. Even his homepage on Princeton website lists 'Poverty in the world and in India' as one of the Nobel winner's main areas of research.
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Indian Banks’ Association Wants to Be Made Party in Supreme Court Challenge to Aadhaar Validity
To protect the interests of the banking industry, Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking to be made a party in a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Aadhaar card.
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1 Stop Aksh Launches e-Health Service “Ask a Doctor” at e-Mitra Kiosks in Rajasthan
1 Stop Aksh, the e-governance arm of Aksh Optifibre Limited [BSE: 532351 | NSE: AKSHOPTFBR] and e-Mitra, a leading government initiative in Rajasthan for connecting villages through IT infrastructure, today announced that it has launched its first e-Health service at its kiosks where a citizen can ask a doctor about his or her health issues.
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Innovative Infant Resuscitator May Be Introduced in India
An innovation that enables infants, who have difficulty in breathing, to respire immediately after birth, developed by a researcher from the faculty of Harvard Medical School along with a few others could be introduced in India.
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Indian American Social Entrepreneur Bhagwati Agrawal in CNN’s Top 10 Heroes List
Bhagwati Agrawal, an Indian American social entrepreneur, has advanced into CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that provided safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in Rajasthan.
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