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Ramadorai new chairman of NSDC
S. Ramadorai took over the post from M.V. Subbiah, who was heading NSDC since 2008.
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Market for feature phone apps is low-tech goldmine
The next time you are standing at a bus stop, cursing the late-running service, spare a thought for Milind Dahikar.
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Unilever Wagers Billions on India Economic Revival
In 1888, when Queen Victoria ruled India, the company that would become Unilever (UNA) decided the country was the future. More than a century on, it’s staking $5.4 billion that it still is.The Anglo-Dutch maker of Dove shampoo and Lipton tea, successor to one of the first multinationals in India, plans to spend as much as 292 billion rupees ($5.4 billion) to increase its control over Indian unit Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUVR)
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Cheering social entrepreneurship: How Lok Capital did it
Investing in a social enterprise in India has become quite the in-thing and the definition of who is a social entrepreneur seems to be changing as well.
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World Bank Group Awards $2 Million to Social Enterprises in the States of Madhya Pradesh
Twenty social enterprises were awarded grants totaling $2 million by the India Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank Group (WBG).
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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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Grassroot-level innovations may hold the key to global challenges
Development professionals should help spread the ideas that are effective in solving problems but often remain in obscurity.
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Applications Open for Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013”
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, an Indian nonprofit, have announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2013 Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.”
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