• Niti Aayog’s Breathe India plan targets the 10 most polluted cities in India
• A 15-point action plan has been developed to address air pollution in the cities
• The cities are Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Varanasi, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Gurugram and Muzaffarpur.

• The funding amount remains undisclosed for the Pre-Series A round
• Launched in 2013 as ‘Indian Social Camera’
• Vebbler was part of Inc42’s 42 Fellowship programme in Junction 2017

• Since May 2017, Amazon Pay has raised more than $100 Mn
• The fundraise comes just three months after an infusion of $30 Mn in March 2018
• Amazon Pay aims to add offline touchpoints as well as third-party online merchants

• The launch of application comes in line with the vision for a Digital India by PM Modi
• iMandi will be catering to over 55 Mn farmers
• The application will be promoting rural digital revolution

• Zopper’s CEO Neeraj Jain and the engineering leadership team has become a part of the PhonePe’s team
• The move has been taken with the aim of enhancing the adoption of digital payments for merchants
• The acquisition will help PhonePe to ramp up its offline business

• Unacademy plans to use the funding to onboard new educators on the platform
• The Bengaluru-based edtech startup plans to explore new categories, including courses for pre-medical, GATE, and CAT
• Unacademy currently has more than 300,000 lessons, 3 Mn registered users and 14,000 educators.

– Anupam Mittal, Vineet Sekhsaria, Akatsuki Inc. invested in the latest pre-Series A round
– Aims to launch 12 more buildings in Bengaluru
– Currently having 950 beds live and is operating 97% occupancy at 15 properties across Bengaluru.

• Google was earlier expected to invest $1-2 Bn in Flipkart along with Walmart
• Google is expected to venture into Indian ecommerce space
• Walmart expected Google’s strength in building online shopping ecosystem in India

• Aims to introduce Letstrack Points (premium retailers) in every state for customer and retail engagement
• Will provide complete business support to the retailers
• Also launched a ‘Postpay’ option for customers to avail easy EMI options