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Grameen Foundation USA Partners with MetLife Foundation to Provide Microfinance in Uttar Pradesh
Grameen Foundation US has partnered with MetLife Foundation to provide savings and other services to at least 40,000 poor and women clients in Uttar Pradesh.
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PPP is an Avenue That Needs to Be Aggressively Tapped
Alisha Moopen, Director, Aster DM Healthcare, as a young entrepreneur working for improving women’s health, feels that in India there is an immense need for continued innovation in this sphere. She talks about the need for the government, private sector and NGOs to integrate their efforts to strengthen the health system for women in India, in an interaction with Raelene Kambli
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Uber Unveils Plan for Training Women Cabbies
Cab aggregator service Uber today announced that it had tied up with a Singapore-based company to train women drivers even as it continues to be under a Delhi government ban after a driver enlisted with it allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman executive inside a taxi.
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Zebpay Launches Bitcoin Mobile Wallet in India
Tech firm Zebpay on March 11 announced launch of its 'bitcoin' mobile wallet in the country. The wallet, which is in form of a mobile application, will help its user buy, sell and transact in bitcoins, which is presently valued at around USD 280 per unit at present.
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India Introduces Its Own $1 Rotavirus Vaccine
On March, 9, India introduced its first ever indigenously produced vaccine for the Rotavirus.
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The One Chinese Innovation that Could Change the Way We Think About Money
The new China International Payments System (CIPS), which is set to debut before the end of 2015, has been described as a “worldwide payments superhighway for the yuan.” What the creation of such a system means in the short-term is that the Chinese currency (officially known as the renminbi) has the potential to become a truly international, convertible currency and a more attractive currency for conducting international trade and finance. What it means in the long-term is that America’s long reign of economic dominance is at risk.
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Vaccine Worth $1.3m ‘Goes Bad’ in Health Ministry Store
Pentavalent Vaccine worth $1.3 million, enough to vaccinate 400,000 infants against five potentially deadly diseases, has spoiled in a storage room at the National Health Services (NHS) Ministry. Three junior officials have been suspended for negligence which resulted in the temperature variation causing the vaccine to spoil.
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Living India: Doctor Couple Who Built a Cheap Hospital
At first sight, the cheerful-looking red and white painted building looks like a quiet public rest house in the din and bustle of Hajipur, a fast developing town in India's northern state of Bihar.
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