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Medicos turned techies make school admissions smoother

SchoolSkies helps in automating the admission and fee payment process

Northern Arc Investments achieves first close of impact fund

Arali, CIIE.CO invest in Unbox

Beyond bucket list ticking, to impact tourism

Offbeat Tracks takes tourists to ‘experience-centric’ destinations

Hypergrowth enterprises: A not-so-rosy picture

Challenges remain on profitability and return on investment

Tracking Deals

How start-ups are changing Ladakh’s landscape

Naropa Fellowship fosters entrepreneurs to innovate in the Himalayan region

An ‘intelligent’ platform of service providers

Sulekha.com uses artificial intelligence to connect small/medium service providers to customers

Impact investing is not about subsidised capital, it is about benchmarked returns: Senior Partner at Unitus Ventures

Unitus Ventures will focus on fintech, jobtech and healthcare from its ₹300-crore second fund

Will Akasa Air’s contra bet on Boeing 737 Max instead of Airbus pay off?

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Akasa airline has gone against the tide, placing its bets on Boeing aircrafts; it now needs to carve out a niche for itself

Breastfeeding, a responsibility, not choice

Rate of initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth has declined in 5 years

Blockchain: Piloting the future of aviation

Enables effective solutions that positively impact industry players and end consumers

Q1 FY23: OMCs bleed due to marketing losses

Prices of motor fuels were kept at levels equivalent to $75-80 per barrel of crude

Bharti Airtel Q1: Inline results and stable operating metrics

Results reflect consistent progress made in recent quarters

IRB beats estimates in Q1FY23, but the stock is expensive

The company is trading at a one year forward P/E of 26.6 times against its historical average (5 year average) of 11.8 times

Auroville: An utopian search for a better world

Akash Kapur’s ‘Better to Have Gone’ traces what happens when we believe deeply in a quest and give up everything in its pursuit

Lady doctors and the rocky path to healing

A handbook on India’s first women doctors holds up a mirror to the social and political realities of the 19th and early 20th century

Conquering Everest: A compelling account of how an impossible dream was achieved

Jim Davidson dwells in detail on the failure to make it in the first attempt and the harrowing return to physically and emotionally draining climb up