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Outside the Olympic cocoon, a Tokyo abuzz only with Cicadas
What is missing are the normal sounds that animate an Olympic host city, a window ajar with the TV broadcasting a thrilling final or a bar crowded with revelers celebrating the latest gold medal. There are few Olympic billboards in Tokyo
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Virender Sehwag's athleisure brand goes online, eyes Rs 100 crore revenue in 3 years
Cricket legend counts on ecommerce and his own brand equity to go pan-India through tier 1 and 2 cities
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What is e-RUPI and how does it work?
All you need to know about e-RUPI, the new digital payment system created by NPCI and inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi
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From incredulous to incredible: How OfBusiness turned into a profitable unicorn
In 2016, Asish Mohapatra's funding pitch got rejected 73 times. Five years later, his B2B commerce platform OfBusiness is valued over $1 billion
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Women in entrepreneurship: India ranks in the bottom 3 out of 43 countries surveyed
Angola tops the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2020-2021 list, while Italy ranked at number 43, last one the list in terms of female activity in entrepreneurship; top motivations to start a business in India for men and women founders include scarcity of jobs or to make a difference in the world
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US hits 70 percent vaccination goal—four weeks late
The milestone came a month later than President Joe Biden had hoped even as the country is faced the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant
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What will Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure deal achieve?
The sprawling, $1 trillion bill, a 2,702-page bipartisan deal that is the product of months of negotiating and years of pent-up ambitions to repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure—would amount to the most substantial government expenditure on the aging public works system since 2009
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Beware of the Hypertensive Complications
Dr Banerjee underlines the complications that may arise out of uncontrolled high blood pressure and suggests ways to keep a check on your blood pressure.
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How a Cuban emigre became a Polish volleyball god
The protests over the lack of food and other basic human needs that took place across Cuba last month also have a lot to do with the story of Wilfredo León, the latest and possibly greatest Cuban sporting export, one more star athlete his nation has lost to the riches of modern sports
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This business trip could have been a Zoom call: Companies rethink travel
A year and a half of forgoing virtually all travel and doing business by video conference has led many business people to conclude that a lot of their previous travel wasn't worth the time and toll on their bodies and mental state, on their families and the environment
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Who is Anu aunty and why does she matter to SoftBank?
Meesho's Vidit Aatrey pitched Anu aunty an investor meeting with SoftBank in 2019. Although bemused at first, SoftBank caught on to the story and stayed curious for two long years. Get early access to this latest cover story by subscribing to Forbes India