Blackstone commits $5M to help India fight raging COVID-19 resurgence

Wall Street-headquartered alternative investment management giant Blackstone, which has over $20 billion in live-investments in the country, on Wednesday announced $5 million (close to Rs 40 crore) aid to help…

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New Zealand to give 1M NZ dollars to Red Cross to assist India in COVID-19 fight

New Zealand will give 1 million NZ dollars (about $ 7,20,365) to the Red Cross to assist India as it grapples with a COVID-19 surge, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said…

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Dating app TrulyMadly launches matchmaking feature, but this time for plasma donors and COVID-19 patients

Indian dating app TrulyMadly has launched a plasma matchmaking feature on its Corona Clusters platform to help match COVID-19 positive patients with plasma donors on the basis of their blood…

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Amazon, Facebook, Vivo, others extend support for COVID relief efforts

Enterprises across the board -- including Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Oppo, and Vivo -- are extending support in India's fight against COVID-19, donating oxygenators, breathing machines, and ventilators amid the deadly…

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Transparency, trust, timeliness – 30 quotes of the week on digital transformation and impacts

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. This special series of quotes focus on the increasing…

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