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Malaria and dengue cases on the rise in Noida. around 300 suspected dengue cases reported at various hospitals and nursing homes in Noida in 2011

Innovation in design and delivery needed to spread insurance

3 min read . 25 Oct 2020

Govt support, market visibility key for assistive tech to scale up

4 min read . 18 Oct 2020

For a small fee, people can hire a Haqdarshak to help find schemes they are eligible for, get basic documents and apply for what they are entitled to.

Helping people claim benefits is good business

5 min read . 11 Oct 2020

(From left) Supplynote co-founders Nitin Prakash, Kumar Kushang, Abhishek Kumar and Harshit Mittal.

Pandemic gives restaurants a taste for tech

5 min read . 05 Oct 2020

An artisan winds a bobbin and prepares to weave Khadi for Bhopal-based startup Khadigi, which works with traditional weavers to provide them a sustainable income by delivering products made from the freedom fabric to retail fashion brands.

50 startups on Sarvodaya March

55 min read . 02 Oct 2020

That IPL 2020 materialized is a dream come true for fantasy sports startups because they depend on mega events to engage fans who pay money to enter contests linked to performances of real players. (Photo: PTI)

Mega events add speed to fantasy sports startups’ race for users

3 min read . 27 Sep 2020

Akshat Rathee (left) and Gautam Virk set up Nodwin Gaming to professionalize esports in India after getting ripped off at a gaming carnival in Noida.

Lines between esports, gaming, gambling blurred

5 min read . 27 Sep 2020

Photo: Bloomberg

All-women team in Bharat helps world adopt AI

5 min read . 20 Sep 2020

ShopX founders, Apoorva Jois (left) and Amit Sharma, are targeting the peculiar needs of retailers in Tier-2+ towns with a B2B app that’s available in seven languages.

Indian retail’s next step: learning to serve kirana stores best

3 min read . 13 Sep 2020

Many users whose first exposure to the internet is on a cellphone find it hard to navigate the many steps of netbanking or shopping online and rely on friends, children or a local kirana store to help them out. This also slows the adoption of buying and transacting online in India’s vast Tier-2+ market. (Photo: iStock)

A tool to shift India from texting to buying online

5 min read . 13 Sep 2020

Smaller startups like Dropshop, led by (from left) Rohit Fernandes, Ravi Teja and Udit Dhawan, offer an alternative route to digitization for mom-and-pop stores, giving proprietors more control over their destinies.

Startups, MNCs are rushing to collect data from ‘kirana’ stores

3 min read . 30 Aug 2020

(From left) Tarnea’s CTO and co-founder Madhav Sitaram, CEO and co-founder Suresh Satyamurthy, and VP of sales Vivek Madhavan.

Covid pushes local pharmacies to try tech cure

5 min read . 30 Aug 2020

Coding education startups are building virtual classrooms that can be customized for both one-on-one teaching and group experiences. (Photo: Getty Images)

This MIT alumnus is building a coding school of the future

3 min read . 09 Aug 2020

An Aquaconnect delivery person collects a water sample from a shrimp pond in Tamil Nadu. The sample is delivered to a lab and the results are sent via an app, along with an advisory for water treatment, to the farmer.

Taking a leaf from the Swiggy playbook to assist aqua farmers

3 min read . 02 Aug 2020

Vyapar’s founders Sumit Agarwal and Shubham Agrawal say covid-19 has changed mindsets and business owners need to control things from anywhere.

An app to turn the ‘khata’ digital for small businesses

5 min read . 26 Jul 2020

Farmers work closely with DeHaat to get advisory services, and the startup ties up with institutional buyers for procurement (PTI)

Agri startup uses franchise route to smart fields

5 min read . 19 Jul 2020

Puru Rastogi was introducted to real-world entrepreneurship at Shenzhen’s HAX accelerator, and returned to set up robotics startup Mowito in Bengaluru.

Meet the founder who is giving robots wings to fly

5 min read . 12 Jul 2020

Research has shown that face coverings are one of the most effective ways to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo: Reuters)

Now, local masks that claim to kill the covid-19 virus

5 min read . 05 Jul 2020

India’s healthtech startups raised a funding of $436 million in the last quarter of 2019. This year, they raised only $72 million in the first quarter, and $103 million in the second, shows data by Tracxn. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Post-covid healthtech funding rebound is leaving India behind

4 min read . 28 Jun 2020

Clover founders (from left) Santosh Narasipura, Avinash B.R., Gururaj Rao and Arvind Murali have switched to selling freshly sourced vegetables directly to consumers during the pandemic.

Bengaluru startup brings produce from greenhouses to plates

3 min read . 21 Jun 2020

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