India is a country of paradoxes where women from well off families suffer due to unnecessary cesarean operations – in some urban centres close to half of deliveries are done by operation – while poorer rural women frequently die during childbirth due to lack of access to the same cesarean operation at time of genuine [...]
Guardian/Observer has an article published on sources from Save the Children. Very sad, but true. This has to change.
Nearly two million children under five die every year in India – one every 15 seconds – the highest number anywhere in the world. More than half die in the month after birth and 400,000 in their [...]
Siva and Prashant, two young guys have started this great company, dhanaX.
dhanaX is an innovative startup in the field of Indian microfinance. The idea is to build a web based platform that facilitates individuals to give unsecured loans directly to an individual or a group of borrowers (SHG/JLGs) with the help of Micro Finance [...]
An interesting mobile startup in Bangalore – Motvik
After a nine month bidding war with CSN Brazil, Tata has come out a winner with a 11 Billion USD bid for Corus. With this the Indian industry has come of age, and hopefully this event will be a torch bearer for others to follow. As Amitabh Bachchan said recently in an interview, once [...]
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