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Gates Foundation offers to help monitor India’s ambitious financial inclusion scheme
NEW DELHI: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has offered to help in monitoring of the progress made with regard to Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, the flagship financial inclusion scheme of India's government.
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India Must Fix Its Drug Quality Problem
India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi just launched his first official tour of the United States.
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Foreign investors chasing bigger gains by investing in Indian microfinance institutions
Instead of raising their holdings in companies such as HDFC Bank and IDFC, the infrastructure lender which is turning into a bank, investors are chasing India's profitable microfinance institutions.
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Reserve Bank of India governor cautions Modi government on speed of financial inclusion scheme
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan’s warning to sarakari banks, on a hunt to win maximum number of bank accounts in minimum days to make Narendra Modi government’s flagship financial inclusion scheme Jan Dhan Yojana a success, reflects the regulator’s concern on the way government using state-run banks to push its populist agenda overlooking prudential norms.
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Climate smart farmers get tech savvy to save India’s bread basket
Erratic weather, rising temperatures, declining water resources and labour shortages are threatening India's bread basket state of Haryana, forcing farmers to abandon age-old practices and adopt technology to ensure food supplies for millions.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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USAID is incubating start-ups to tackle poverty problems
With his nifty PowerPoint slides and carefully crafted pitch, Yashraj Khaitan might be mistaken for any other fast-talking, code-savvy Bay Area millennial boasting that he has hit on the idea to solve a vexing world problem.Yet, in Khaitan's case, some very influential people in Washington think he may be right.The federal government agency charged with easing world hunger and poverty has bet a million dollars on Khaitan's tiny start-up. It is among a handful of companies that the US Agency for International Development is looking to as it seeks to upend the way aid agencies go about trying to improve living conditions in some of the world's most deeply impoverished places.
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Card payment network RuPay sees boost from Indian government’s financial inclusion scheme
The Indian government's financial inclusion drive to expand banking services in the country is giving a boost to home-grown card payment network RuPay.
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The Man Who Feeds 1.2 Million Kids A Day
Running a massive school meals program that feeds malnourished kids, Manoj Kumar is on a mission to show how entrepreneurs can make real inroads in tackling India's age-old social problems.
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