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May 8, 2016 5:59 PM
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The Narendra Modi government plans to spend a staggering $6.2 billion (Rs41,000 crore) to increase India's green cover. The bill—called the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015—has already been passed by lawmakers in India's lower house this week. The aim of this project is to increase India's forest cover from 21.34% of the total land to 33%. The bill i
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April 6, 2016 3:31 PM
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Here's a list of all the coworking spaces in India. It features shared office spaces from Mumbai along other coworking spaces in India.
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March 6, 2016 4:16 PM
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This briefing has been prepared for the BRICS + Indonesia and Iran — and other nations such as Brunei, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — as a means of fostering a conversat…
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January 10, 2016 4:57 AM
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The sharing or renting economy is rapidly establishing itself as a disruptive new framework in the wake of the extreme consumerism that was led by e-commerce and mobile-commerce companies.
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September 6, 2015 12:52 PM
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Professor emeritus of law at Princeton University, Richard A. Falk, on why he’s a signatory to the petition against Modi.
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July 28, 2015 4:42 PM
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The first hackathon to be held in India will reportedly focus on bitcoin and blockchain technology.
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May 16, 2015 5:02 AM
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Environmental group Greenpeace says it may be forced to shut down in India in a month because the government has frozen its bank accounts.
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April 17, 2015 8:33 AM
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A group of Internet companies have withdrawn support from Internet.org, the buzzy Facebook-backed service that aims to bring people in developing countries online, following a backlash in India over net neutrality.
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April 15, 2015 4:50 PM
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Open Knowledge Versus Paywalled Journals: The Trend Forward For Developing Nations Like India
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jean lievens
April 14, 2015 8:46 AM
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In an unparalleled, passionate campaign, India’s internet users have sent nearly 400,000 emails in the past three days asking the country’s telecom regulator to safeguard internet neutrality.
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April 9, 2015 11:46 AM
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India’s taxi app hailing war is heating up. This morning, details of Ola’s latest $310 million funding round surfaced, and just hours later, Uber has introduced its first service that allows cash payments in the country.
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April 4, 2015 5:17 PM
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Rajendra Singh has received the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize for the rainwater harvesting initiatives that he has implemented in drought-stricken areas of India.
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March 29, 2015 5:36 PM
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Priya Shankar’s piece, The carnival of the ‘common man’, looks at the Indian government’s national ‘smart cities’ agenda in the context of whether this can best serve the needs and improve living conditions for ordinary people.
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May 7, 2016 2:47 AM
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These past two weeks, the airwaves and print media have been saturated with news regarding the Panama Papers and the ongoing operation in Southern Punjab. The
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March 13, 2016 1:34 PM
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Deccan Development Society (DDS) is transforming the lives of villagers of Zaheerhabad, Telangana. Ashish Kothari visited the place recently and writes about how DDS is successfully working with Dalit farmers towards ecologically sustainable farming, women empowerment and community-led communications.
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January 17, 2016 3:08 PM
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The project aims to create an environment of and by women, who are unlearning warnings. The participants, also known as 'Action Heroes',...
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January 7, 2016 10:23 AM
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BANGALORE: The sharing or renting economy is rapidly establishing itself as a disruptive new framework in the wake of the extreme consumerism that was led by e-...
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August 24, 2015 1:44 PM
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The country's greatest chronicler of rural life embarks on a mission to digitize, well, everything.
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May 26, 2015 4:35 AM
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The Seven Cooperative Principles all cooperatives swear by globally and which came in handy to the Supreme Court of India in disposing an important case of
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April 19, 2015 1:31 PM
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A few months ago, not many had heard of net neutrality. But a combination of humour, solid research and a practical game plan turned a nerdy cause into an online movement.
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April 17, 2015 8:12 AM
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A group of India's leading technology and Internet firms has pulled out of Facebook's flagship effort to get billions more people online.
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April 15, 2015 4:45 PM
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India-based bitcoin exchange Unocoin partners with Purse.io to complete the cycle from Mechanical Turk to Indian rupees.
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April 9, 2015 11:46 AM
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Ola, the taxi-calling app that is one of Uber’s biggest competitors in India, has raised $315 million in new funding from DST Global, as well as returning investors Tiger Global, Steadview Capital, and Accel Partners.
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April 7, 2015 9:11 AM
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“India 3D Printer Market (2015-2021)” is a report from 6Wresearch covering the 3D printer market, and it’s broken down by technology, application, end uses and region. It’s a report that offers estimates and forecasts...
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March 31, 2015 11:51 AM
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While India may not yet be on par with the U.S. and Europe when it comes to 3D design and 3D printing, J Group Robotics, headed by C.E.O. Vaibhav Jariwala, is certainly working ambitiously to... View the entire article via our website.
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