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Your Story Coping with cancer: Family support and self-determination plays a crucial role
The cancer burden in India has increased manifold over the last few years. According to The World Cancer Report, an estimated cancer burden in India in 2018 consisted of 1.16 million new cancer cases, 784,800 cancer deaths, and 2.26 million five-year prevalent cases in India's population of 1.35 billion.Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells anywhere in a...
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Your Story Learn English, donate meals amid COVID-19 pandemic, stream Rekhta poetry - things you can do with Alexa during lockdown
If you have an Amazon Echo or an Alexa, you may already be using it various things — talking to it, asking information, news, setting time, alarms, playing music, or just for relaxing. However, are you aware of all the features that Amazon’s virtual assistants are capable of carrying out? Over the last few months,...
- 7 hrs ago
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Your Story Why these Ola and Zomato Hyperpure execs chose to launch an agritech startup
Like every techie, Pranav Tiwari and Dhruv Sawhney had one dream: solving and simplifying a large problem using technology. In their previous avatars, the duo had built and scaled large products. Pranav was the Head of Engineering for Ola, and worked for the likes of Cisco, Cellworks, and Google, building and scaling multiple products. Dhruv worked in diverse...
- 9 hrs ago
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Your Story Coronavirus updates for June 7
India now has the world's sixth-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections, surpassing the numbers of Italy. According to Worldometer, India's COVID-19 tally is close to 240,000, with the number of deaths more than 6,600. Uttar Pradesh became the sixth state in India to have more than 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. To curb the rising number of cases, Odisha has imposed a two-day weekend shutdown in 11 of...
- 18 hrs ago
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Your Story Is the lockdown a perfect opportunity to talk about family finances?
With the coronavirus lockdown in place, you have more time to spend with your spouse or partner than you imagined. How are you utilising it? Do you cook together, clean your homes, play, or indulge in your hobbies? Do you worry about the income uncertainties of the future?One way to put the worries to rest is to know the realities and be prepared in the best way possible....
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Your Story Here's how consumer behaviour will undergo a cultural shift post-COVID-19
Weeks and months of lockdown are beginning to alter food choices, consumption, and resulting food waste behaviours. We are becoming more aware of our relationship with food, hygiene and packaging.More importantly, the connection between food hygiene and the impact on health is becoming evident.I see the following potential consumer shifts.Hygiene-first choices People...
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Your Story Anticipate change, don't just adapt to change - Madge Meyer, Author of 'The Innovator's Path'
Madge Meyer is the author of The Innovator's Path: How Individuals, Teams, and Organisations Can Make Innovation Business-as-Usual (see my book review here). She was formerly the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at State Street Corporation, and was earlier at Merrill Lynch and IBM.Her useful book provides frameworks and maturity...
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corona2020 Will consumer shopping experience shift to online post COVID-19?
COVID-19 has changed the way the world once ran. Be it remote working, surviving on bare necessities, stocking up essential goods, or relying on technology to communicate with the world outside, this pandemic has turned the world on its head within a span of months.Companies struggling to meet annual sales targets are incurring huge losses. With the lockdown mandated and consumers...
- yesterday
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Your Story [MatrixMoments] What are the nuances of a founder-VC relationship
In an attempt to truly decode the VC-founder relationship, this Matrix Moments episode features Asish Mohapatra, Co-Founder of OfBusiness – one of India’s leading tech-driven B2B lending platform, which is also a Matrix portfolio company – in conversation with Avnish Bajaj, Founder and Managing Director, Matrix Partners, India.Before setting up OfBusiness,...
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Your Story Facebook removes nearly 200 accounts tied to hate groups
Facebook has removed nearly 200 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups that planned to encourage members to attend protests over police killings of black people in some cases with weapons, company officials said on Friday.The accounts on Facebook and Instagram were tied to the Proud Boys and the American Guard, two hate groups already banned on the platforms.Officials were...
- yesterday
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