How a 13-year-old boy's app is helping Dabbawalas

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Meet the 13-year-old boy who made the 'Ola and Uber' of Dabbawalas Tilak Mehta is one of the India's youngest entrepreneur. His start-up company Papers-N-Parcels or PNP in short, is set to bring about a digital disruption in the space of door-to-door courier pick-up and delivery services. How eight students helped Byju Raveendran build his multi-crore edtech business Education technology platform Byju's is in talks with SoftBank and other investors to raise $200-250 million to fund its global expansion plans, said sources familiar with the matter. All-women crew takes charge of goods train For the first time in the history of East Central Railway (ECR), three women – two loco pilots and a guard – took independent charge of a goods train and piloted it from Danapur station to Fatuha on Friday. 30 years on, 'new age militancy' stokes Kashmir conflict A home-made bomb set off the insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir 30 years ago, but "new age" fighters using social media assaults alongside guns are taking the battle to new heights of bitterness. Thai 'Indiana Jones' divers scour Bangkok's murky river for treasure Kneeling before his homemade metal scuba helmet, Bhoomin Samang prays for good fortune before he dives into the day's work -- scouring the bed of Bangkok's Chao Phraya river for sunken treasure. German air force's A400M planes to have intensive care stations After years of delays and technical challenges, Germany´s air force's growing fleet of Airbus A400M military transport planes will now include a "flying intensive care station", top air force and defence ministry officials said on Tuesday.

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