14 Indian Startups & Projects That Are Helping The Country Go Green

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Indian entrepreneurs are looking to disrupt everything right from the way we shop, to how we order food, to how we get a leaking tap fixed. However, with problems of excessive consumption, and technology, come problems of waste, pollution and environmental damage.

But fortunately, there are startups that are looking to mitigate these environmental hazards, and combined with a love for social good and a technology led product, helping the country become greener. In a country like India, where abject corruption and a huge population can usually put civic works in the background, it’s heartening to see small players coming out and focussing in this sector. We bring you 14 such entrepreneurs and activists who have started ventures towards sustainable development focussing on waste management, alternative sources of energy and awareness platforms.

LinkedIn Has A Beautifully Detailed, State Of The Art New Office In Bangalore

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When a company that helps you connect with professionals, and get jobs in companies you see yourself working at, turns into a desirable place to work at, itself, it’s deadly combination. And professional networking site Linkedin with its new office is doing just that. After we took you on a tour of the fun Mumbai office of Facebook, here’s another Fortune50 company showing us how it’s done.

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These Unicorns’ Websites Looked Very Different Back In The Day

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A brand is a constantly evolving entity, and its most physical, visual aspect is its website. While the Unicorn startups of today like Flipkart, Ola, Paytm sport fancy looks bandying terms like Material design today, they have come a long way from being the basic, web 1.0 websites of when they started. Startup pitch app ShotPitch recently did some some delving into the past, and dug out the looks of the top 5 Indian startups. Watch this now and then slideshow for a bout of nostalgia.

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L&T Infotech Withdraws 1500 Job Offers, Students On Hunger Strikes

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In what seems to be current wave in the Indian jobs, as many as 1500 job offers extended to campus graduates were withdrawn by L&T Infotech.
Close on the heels of Flipkart, that deferred the joining date of upto 80 campus hires by 6 months, infrastructure giant L&T Infotech has withdrawn job offers for 1500 students. The distraught students were seen protesting around the L&T campus and have reportedly gone on a hunger strike.

These 9 Foreign Students Share What It’s Like To Live In India

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India is in the eye of the storm for the unfortunate attacks on African nationals student in New Delhi. This comes close on the heels of a Congo national having been attacked to death, also in the capital. Shameful incidents are like these are not helping set a good precedent for the image of the country as a foreigner friendly nation. Ironically for a country which has often been victimised of racism, these acts of violence are placing India as a racist nation.
However, while we must not leave the perpetrators of such heinous acts against, humans, irrespective of local or foreigner, here’s accounts from African students studying in India, as shared by Foreigners of India.

Facebook Has Just Moved Into A Fabulous New Office In Mumbai

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The world’s biggest social network Facebook has just stepped into an all new office in Mumbai, and it’s worth more than a ‘like.’
The office is located at the Bandra Kurla Complex, neighbour to rival Google, spanning over a space of 22,000 sq. ft. This new office is all things Facebook, kitsch, India, and very little like the industrial look headquarters of Menlo Park or the understated office in Hyderabad. After all, Facebook Mumbai is where most of the Indian sales team will operate out of. Here’s a glimpse.