Take One: Big story of the day
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IPO Frenzy: Loss-making Indian tech startups are emulating their US counterparts, but that's not enough
From Zomato to Paytm, loss-making ventures are getting listed by opting for scale over profit in the short-term. Wooing investors on the premise of a promising future, however, needs to be backed an expanding topline and profitability in the long term
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Tearing through India's sex paradox: Rising infertility, less condoms, more babies
The country is grappling with rising infertility rates and stagnant growth in condom usage. Is there a way out?
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Health tech in a backpack
From standard vitals checks to early cancer detection in women, modern medical devices are becoming small and affordable enough to reach remote villages. With cloud connectivity and the internet, they are revolutionising health care delivery
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DBS Bank India: Gaining muscle with LVB
Once focussed on corporate banking, DBS Bank India will now compete with larger retail-focussed banks and acquire more business by integrating with the businesses of traditional small business lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank
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VCats & 9Unicorns: A sibling revelry
An incubation platform and accelerator fund are fuelling early-stage investing from 0 to 1 stage. Can the gambit pay off?
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Five years of NCLT: The bad loan recovery tool is painfully slow, but still India's best bet
The National Company Law Tribunal report card is not looking good: Recovery rate for resolutions is at a three-year low and average time taken for the resolution process is rising. But with the coming of Bad Bank and persisting problem of bad loans, the need for NCLT cannot be denied
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Sports and mental health: When trophies and fame are lined with silent, dark struggles
More athletes are opening up about their struggles with mental health, even at home. But what makes them vulnerable in the first place, and how should the ecosystem step up?
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DotPe: Meet the unlikely 'freedom' fighter battling Zomato-Swiggy for riled restaurants
DotPe is turning out to be the secret sauce for riled restaurant owners in their fight against aggregators like Zomato and Swiggy
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Inside Sanjay Mehta's ambition to build India's Y Combinator at 100X.VC
Entrepreneur-turned-investor Mehta is making life easier for early-stage startups, helping them to focus on their ideas, while handholding them to raise money
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Will Zomato's audacious grocery bet with Grofers pay off?
Despite grocery being a high-risk play with wafer-thin margins and dynamics that are different from food delivery, IPO-bound Zomato perhaps has little option but to take the plunge with a stake in Grofers, viewing it as a fighting chance to keep its growth story intact
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India wants to take CoWin global, but it remains disempowering for many back home
The technology platform at the centre of India's Covid-19 vaccination strategy is out of reach for those without digital access or know-how, while vaccine supply constraints and data security issues spark additional concerns