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Nearly 170 dead amid heatwave in N India

A scorching heatwave in two of India's most populous states has overwhelmed hospitals, filled a morgue to capacity and disrupted power supply, forcing staff to use book

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Nepali Congress president Deuba appointed as prime minister

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba was appointed prime minister of the country on Tuesday within a deadline set by the Supreme Court."The president has appoin

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India re-opens major cities as new COVID-19 infections hit 2-mth low

Key Indian cities re-opened for business on Monday, with long queues for buses in the financial hub of Mumbai while traffic returned to the roads of New Delhi after a d

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Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers

Simplified, a marketing-focused design software looking to take on Canva, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Craft Ventures. Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, former Uber C

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Amazon launches miniTV, a free video streaming service, in India

Amazon, which already charges some of the world’s lowest fees for Prime Video in India, is going a step further to win more users in the world’s second largest internet market.The e-commerce giant on

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More than 4,000 Indians die of COVID-19 for second straight day

India recorded more than 4,000 COVID-19 deaths for a second straight day on Thursday, while infections stayed below 400,000 for a fourth day, although the virus has bec

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U.S. move to loosen vaccine patents will draw drug companies to bargain: lawyers

U.S. support for waiving intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines could be a tactic to convince drugmakers to back less drastic steps like sharing technology a

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Paytm claims top spot in India’s mobile payments market with 1.2B monthly transactions

Paytm, India’s most valuable startup, said on Monday it processed 1.2 billion transactions in the month of February, illustrating the level of penetration it has made in one of the world’s fastest-gro

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How India could win its COVID vaccination race

A woman with a face mask as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus on a local train, February 21, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Sema Sgaier is an adjunct assistant professor at the Harv

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The creator movement is entering primetime, and so is Circle with a fresh $4M

The creator movement has exploded in the last few years as platforms ranging from Substack to Clubhouse have made it easier than ever to reach an audience of willing readers and listeners. Yet the key

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Indian farmers agree to meet government officials over contentious farm laws

Leaders of Indian farmers' unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh round of talks with the government which has so far fa

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India's capital chokes on 'severe' smog as farm fires soar

New Delhi was blanketed in noxious haze Friday as air pollution levels in parts of the city soared to "severe" levels, hours after US President Donald Trump described t

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Digging into the next wave of tech IPOs

After taking five consecutive business days off from my work laptop — and to shout at my personal laptop while losing games on Dominion online — I am back. I missed you. And while The Exchange’s regul

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Creators need better community tools. Circle wants to fill the gap

Entrepreneurial creators have to do a lot with limited time. They need to, well, create, but then they also need to build their marketing funnels, convert users to their paid products, and manage busi

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Australia wins 5th Women's T20 Cricket World Cup title

Australia's opener Beth Mooney in action during the ICC Women's T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia, March 8, 2020. /AP Defending champion Australia claimed its

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Indian gov't springs into action as 25 new COVID-19 cases detected

Amid scare posed by the COVID-19 after 25 new cases surfaced over the past two days in the country, the Indian government has sprung into action even as the situation is being directly supervised by

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Women's T20 World Cup: India beat Bangladesh by 18 runs

India claimed a comfortable 18-run victory over Bangladesh to move top of Group A in the Women's T20 World Cup.India reached 142-6, the highest score of the tournament