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e-Paisa Starts Accepting Wallet Payments from Paytm, Mobikwik
Payments service provider, Paytm, Mobikwik and Citrus haver tied up with e-Paisa, to enable easy payment option to customers to pay at retail outlets like grocery stores, restaurants and other small brick and mortar merchants through their mobile wallets.
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Viewpoint: Sanitation Financing: An Opportunity to End Open Defecation
“Why do we have toilets at school but not at home?” This question from one of her children prompted Nusrat, a wife and mother of six living in India, to apply for a sanitation loan. Within two weeks of receiving the loan, Nusrat was able to purchase a toilet. Now, one year later, the monthly instalments on Nusrat’s loan have all been repaid and her family is happier, healthier, and safer.
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Viewpoint: Why India’s Supreme Court Judgment on Aadhaar National IDs Calls or an Appeal
Mahatma Gandhi refused to join the Constituent Assembly that wrote our wonderful Constitution, but his advice to some of the members was, “Whenever you are in doubt, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to control over his own life and destiny? Will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?” I submit that the recent Supreme Court (SC) interim judgment on Aadhaar does not pass the Mahatma’s test and it must be appealed. All it needs is one small tweak.
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Vinod Khosla-Backed Novopay Launches Mobile Wallet in India
Novopay Solutions Pvt. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its consumer wallet, which allows payments at neighbourhood stores, remittances and withdrawals.
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Snapdeal and FreeCharge Launch the Mother of All Mobile Wallets in India
When ecommerce marketplace Snapdeal acquired mobile top-up site FreeCharge in April – the biggest acquisition in India to date – the promise was to build a digital commerce ecosystem. An important piece of that jigsaw fell into place today with the launch of a new mobile wallet by Snapdeal and FreeCharge jointly.
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Small Farmers and Business Get Reason to Cheer as Reserve Bank of India Grants Licenses to 10 Small Banks
The Reserve Bank granted small bank licences to 10 applicants, most of which are engaged in microfinance, in a move seen as one of the most far-reaching initiatives on financial inclusion since bank nationalisation in the late 1960s.
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Heart Surgeon Brings High-Tech Health Care to the World’s Poor
Indian philanthropist and cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Chairman of Narayana Health in Bangalore. Born in a small village, Shetty went to school in Bangalore before studying in the UK. After returning to India in 1989, Mother Teresa had a heart attack, and Dr. Shetty was called to operate on her. From then on, he served as her personal physician.
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Rural Children in India Have Better Immunization Rates
Contrary to earlier studies, children in rural India have higher vaccinationrates than those in cities and Hindu kids are more likely to get their shots than Muslims, researchers from a leading American university have said.
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