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BySanchita Dash

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1. Anand Mahindra & Elon Musk are now bffs. The business magnates recently had an interesting interaction on Twitter about generating job opportunities on Mars.

2. Akshay Kumar's PadMan becomes inspiration for 13-year-old, Riva Tulpule. The Dubai-based teenager has adopted 250 girls from rural Maharashtra and will supply them with sanitary napkins for an entire year.

3. OYO's $1 billion funding ride gets another passenger. Singapore-based ride-hailing company Grab is reportedly in advanced talks to invest $100 million in the Indian startup.

4. In a first, Facebook-owned WhatsApp to now run a television ad campaign in India. The instant messaging app has developed three films to spread a word against Fake news.

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Sanchita Dash

Entrepreneur Staff

Former Senior Correspondent, Entrepreneur India

在business of news for 5 years now. Making my way across India thanks to my career. A media graduate from Symbiosis, Pune, I have earlier worked with Deccan Chronicle (South India's leading English daily), T-Hub (India's largest incubator) and Anthill Ventures (a speed-scaling platform).

Stories, movies and PJs are my thing.

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