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Toilet has sensors to stay clean
Most public toilets stink but not GARV toilets. Small and portable, these loos are equipped ...
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Hiring the disabled: Youth4Jobs' winning model
Everyone is worried about the lack of jobs in the Indian economy. Where will a ...
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Pickles from a family tradition
Vikram Bhargava’s hobby was making pickles at his family farm in Paharapurwa village, in Rajnagar ...
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'Environment needs tech, innovation'
It is not common to find a hard-nosed environmentalist with a fan following in the ...
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Atulyakala helps deaf artists make a living
In 2013, when Smriti Nagpal went with her sister to an art exhibition, she met ...
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A really big EV: How Kona changes the game
The launch of the Kona by Hyundai in July has raised the bar for expectations ...
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Tiles from plastic for paths and roads
ParaS Saluja is sitting coolly in a scrapyard in Ghaziabad, unaffected by the heat or ...
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Hygiene technicians, not just cleaners
Diversey has made cleaners into hygiene technicians to give back to society through an initiative called ...
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Just Organik goes to small farmers in Uttarakhand
Businesses in organic products are as much about social impact as healthy bottom lines. It ...
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Solar dryers giver farmers market clout
It is a story heard across India. Small farmers are left with vegetables they cannot ...
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Plastic into products: Upcycling the Lifaffa way
Kanika Ahuja is the CEO of Lifaffa, an enterprise that converts plastic waste into sheets ...
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Punjab firm has waste solution
The Delhi Cantonment area could be on its way to becoming a model for municipalities ...
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Refugee enterprise in Delhi is Afghan by design
Salma Gul, 32, lives in a small barsati in an inconspicuous lane in Delhi. An ...
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‘There has been CSR learning and course correction'
In an unequal world, it has become increasingly important for companies to do their bit ...
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Bamboo has got a big agarbatti connection
After it went from being a ‘tree’ to a ‘grass’ and got freed from the ...
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Cold storages for villages: A mini answer from CoolCrop
This April, for the first time, the Kunbi tribal community in Joida will harvest their ...
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A neem factory on wheels! Fresh pesticide for farmers
Three months ago, Nagaraju G.H. started an unusual venture, probably the first of its kind ...
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Mutual fund for NGOs? It may just be possible
Non-profits mostly have to strive hard to raise funds for their causes. It distracts them ...
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Donkey love: Soap from milk is a beautiful idea
Wasim has been earning from his donkeys for years by putting them out to work ...
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Meals for you: LeanSpoon knows to customise diet
Ordering in is bigger than ever before. Everyone’s buying food that comes home and is ...
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Whatever happened to EVs? 2030 goals need clear policy
As air pollution levels soared in November, making it difficult to breathe in New Delhi ...
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There is money in honey! Ask Raikar & Co.
When Suprajit Raikar started biking into Goa’s countryside with his friends, he was struck by ...
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A smart network makes electric cars smarter
What will I do if the battery runs out and there isn’t someplace nearby where ...
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Rapidly growing market in small loans for small homes
The government has been a game changer by setting a target to finance 20 million ...
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Lawyers and doctors when you need them
Imagine this: You have paid a lot upfront for a builder flat but it is ...
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‘Sanitation is the fortune at the bottom of the toilet’
The Union government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Campaign has had several impacts. It ...
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In Goa, a bag to beat the new plastic ban
Measures for protecting the environment throw up alternative business opportunities as well. The banning of ...
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Sanitary napkins need a pro to get them right
When the Nalanda Foundation set up a small sanitary napkin making unit in Ghazipur in ...
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Banana man goes digital from nowhere
Four years ago, 23-year-old C.V. Srinidhi, a computer science graduate, decided to try his hand ...
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Taking crabs to market: Goan farmers learn how ?
When researchers of The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) discovered that two ponds in Batim ...
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How cool is carpooling? See how Orahi does it
Five years ago, Orahi popped up, like so many new-age companies in India, with small ...
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Stubble trouble: Is a market solution the way out?
Innovative mechanisation and a robust market in crop residues may just be the best ways ...
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‘Northeast is full of opportunities’
For decades, the Northeastern states have been showered with government funds to promote development. One ...
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FICCI team helps firms choose useful CSR
It is three years since changes to the Companies Act made it obligatory for managements ...
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Janota’s trendy shoes are all soul and comfort
Edwin Pinto is perhaps Goa’s only designer-shoemaker to keep his business running for 20 years ...
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Kerala farmers give Desi cows get a brand name
How do you save desi or indigenous cows from extinction? Just make it profitable to ...
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World Bank lends $650 m to SBI for rooftop solar
The Indian market in rooftop solar installations has been growing because of falling asset prices, ...
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Fresh, crisp and catching the clean-eating trend
Delivering hundreds of eatable salads across New Delhi and Gurugram in a day is not ...
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Banglanatak makes villages into craft hubs
When banglanatak.com first started working among the Chhau dancers of Purulia district in West Bengal ...
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Zonta's way: A dump can become a drop box
It takes more than civic sense to get a city into shape. The best of ...
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Banana stem on path to fame with new takers
The banana is not just valued for its fruit. Its stem too is becoming a ...
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Shared workplace comes with many advantages
Connaught Place is abuzz as usual — cars whiz by, pedestrians gingerly negotiate the chaotic ...
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Orahi has made carpooling a smooth ride in NCR
For a large section of National Capital Region (NCR) residents, the daily commute from home ...
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Cosmetics made to order and wholly organic
When Kavita Bhatia-Gupta makes a face scrub, it is so fresh that you can smell ...
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‘MFIs have coped but going cashless is tough'
The microfinance business works on a model of collection and disbursement. Traditionally it has been ...
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Antim Yatra has services for bereaved families
In 2003 Daljit Sean Singh had a near death experience in America. Lying half-conscious on ...
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Punjabi jackfruit quest succeeds in Malaysia
Jackfruit isn’t prized in Punjab. It doesn’t have the status of the aromatic basmati rice ...
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The market beyond drip
When plants and trees need water how much are they really asking for and when ...
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Elderly start-up by caring young entrepreneurs
Arnab Sen lives and works in New York where he leads a clinically oriented physician ...
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Bottling the goodness of coconut oil
Imagine leaving a corporate job in Mumbai to go to Goa for its coconuts. That ...
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Lok Capital makes profit with social impact
In times when private equity investments haven’t been faring too well, Lok Capital is out ...
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Vedica’s MBA is smart, female and beyond profit
Everything at Vedica is new and exciting, says bright young Ashmita Kannan, a graduate in ...
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Healthy, organic foods from Raj Seelam's 24 Mantra
Looking up to Raj Seelam is easy because he is all of six feet and ...
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Kerala promotes coir with organic sound panel
Of all the products that were on view at the sixth edition of Coir Kerala, ...
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Solar firm readies for place in the sun
On the phone from Hyderabad, Vivek Subramanian is every bit an entrepreneur in full flow. ...
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Bringing Sikkim ginger to the Delhi market
Parvata Foods has marketed 100 tonnes of ‘Himalayan Ginger’ in the National Capital Region (NCR) ...
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Bandhan grows and learns
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued the first banking licence to a microfinance organisation, ...
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Multix as rural car gets big thumbs up from users
Ganesh Narayan Chaudhry is a farmer in Mahapura village of Jaipur district in Rajasthan. His ...
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Jackfruit finds a company that knows to dream big
After studying India’s scattered jackfruit industry for more than a year, Subhash Koroth, 32, finally ...
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With Microspin, it is cotton in, fabric out for growers
At Buldana in Maharashtra a small, integrated spinning mill will soon become the first in ...
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GudNeSs for Rs 10 with all the iron women need
A bar made from jaggery, nuts, seeds and multiple grains and available for just Rs ...
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Mahiti helps innovators with technology for social good
Like giant trees, impressive organisations have their beginnings in small seeds or little ideas. Mahiti.org, ...
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