Special Report
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Walmart's Flipkart buy rekindles hopes for relaxation of India's FDI rules
The argument is, why should the offline world not have the same access to the kind of financing Flipkart just received; opening up foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail would achieve this
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Flipkart sale brings joy to investors
Experts believe the stellar returns clocked by Flipkart investors is a reason to rejoice, but cautions that there aren't many companies of Flipkart's scale yet
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Walmart takes over Flipkart for $16 billion; Sachin Bansal to exit
The deal values the Indian ecommerce major at $20.8 billion and includes a $2 billion equity investment, enlarging its war chest to take on rivals Amazon and Alibaba
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Cooking up a storm
The recent 'fake cheese' video is among a spate of incidents that threatens to derail the QSR industry that was just about getting its act together
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Health care innovations: Designed to save lives
From infant warmers to contraceptive insertion devices, design firms are improving health care delivery with affordable, portable innovations
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IIT-Madras: Indian Institute of Innovation
With incubators for deep tech startups, funding for students and support for corporate R&D, the institute is fostering an entire ecosystem of cutting-edge ideas
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Ideas Inc: How India fares on the innovation index
The country lags behind compared with other nations
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Most innovations are scouted by volunteers: Anil K Gupta
The founder of Honey Bee Network talks about supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations
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Biotech's unlikely hero: The government
The department of biotechnology has funded and supported critical research and startups, while engaging with private industry
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We need to accept failure to progress: Samuel West
The founder of Sweden's Museum of Failure on highlighting the ideas that didn't make it and the merits of seeing the big boys fail
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Digibank: Riding the digital wave
India's first fully digital bank, DBS India, continues to innovate, both with technology and products