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India’s central bank abandons UPI rival project

India’s central bank has halted its plans for a high-profile project intended to rival the nation’s dominant payment system, Unified Payments Interface. The project had attracted significa

Equity Tuesday: Everyone is raising money at the same time

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday Tuesday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the la

China’s coffee upstart Luckin pushes into India and Middle East

Luckin continues to expand at jaw-dropping speed as it announced plans to open shop overseas for the first time. On Monday, the Starbucks challenger from China said it has signed a memorandum of under

BlackBuck raises $150 million to digitize freight and logistics across India

India’s trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful of logistics startups that is trying to overhaul this system, just raised $15

Vue.ai raises $17M to equip online retailers with AI smarts

Vue.ai, a U.S./India startup that develops an AI platform to help online retailers work more efficiently and sell more, has announced a $17 million Series B round. The investment is led by Falcon Edge

How To Fix Tech’s H-1B Problem

I'm a Canadian who has spent a sizable fraction of his adult life working in the USA, so immigration, especially as it relates to the tech industry, is a pretty personal subject. I was at a Waterloo E

Snapdeal Gets Backing From Tata Figurehead In India’s Hot E-Commerce Market

On the heels of Flipkart raising an eye-popping $1 billion, here’s one more sign of the landgrab going on in the Indian e-commerce market today. Its rival Snapdeal has raised yet more outside

World's least expensive car, India's Tata Nano, now available: Less than $2,000

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/thetatanano.jpg" />The world's least expensive car, India's Tata Nano, was introduced a little more than a year ago, and it's now availab

Indian corp teaches a lesson in launching WiMax network

[photopress:indiawimax.jpg,full,center] This photo has nothing to do with WiMax and everything to do with tennis players in local garb Well someone’s taking this WiMax thing seriously. Someone,

Tata Nano, the world's least expensive car

[photopress:tatanano.jpg,full,center] Meet the world’s least expensive car, the Nano. The car costs only $2,500, gets 50 miles per gallon and is supposed to bring the gift of rapid transportatio