India Accelerator plans to select 100 startups for seed funding in 2021

Startup nurturing platform India Accelerator plans to expand its startup portfolio by over three-folds in 2021 with investment in around 100 such ventures.The company invests Rs 25 lakh in select…

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Thirty years of satellite images shows us how climate change is threating mangroves- Technology News, FP

The ConversationApr 05, 2021 10:46:27 ISTAustralia is home to around two percent of the world’s mangrove forests and is the fifth most mangrove-forested country on Earth. Mangroves play a crucial…

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NASA’s Perseverance rover deploys Ingenuity helicopter on Mars’ surface- Technology News, FP

Agence France-PresseApr 05, 2021 10:30:36 ISTNASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has been dropped on the surface of Mars in preparation for its first flight, the US space agency said. The ultra-light aircraft…

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[Funding alert] Meesho raises $300 M investment led by Softbank Vision Fund 2

Social commerce platform, Meesho, has raised $300 million in new funding led by Softbank Vision Fund 2. With this investment, Meesho's valuation is at $2.1 billion. The round also saw…

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Questions on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine continue to linger despite reassurances

As of 31 March, the EMA identified 62 cases of CVST in the world, among 9.2 million doses of AstraZeneca administered. Persistent questions on whether rare but serious blood clots…

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Scientists identify three types of COVID-19 patients based on clinical outcomes

The categories — phenotype I. phenotype II and phenotype III — are based on patients comorbidities, complications, and clinical outcomes. There’s little evidence that surface transmission is a common way…

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Conversations and gamification – CII Global Summit showcases business communication for knowledge work

Storytelling, conversations, and gamification have emerged as effective ways of promoting organisational behaviours like knowledge sharing. Along with process and technology approaches, they strengthen organisational learning capacities, as discussed in…

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