There are around 4,500 tech-based start-ups in India.
The George Institute for Global Health has launched a nutrition application in India for this, called FoodSwitch.
For the first time the government is organising an event where consolidated efforts would be made to help start-ups.
He will be in Mumbai for a day to deliver a keynote address at Future Unleashed.
Zomato is far behind the numbers it promised to its investors for FY16.
Zuckerberg is expected to speak for 15 minutes.
Amazon plans to bring in its cheapest e-book reader maybe by the next year
Riding on e-commerce wave is the youngest state, which faces competition from neighbours.
In August, RBI allowed 11 business houses to start a payments bank.
About 80 per cent of the companies that are registered are essentially non-IT.
According to rating agency Fitch, India can in the long run support five-six profitable telecom operators.
Eight telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, the biggest three in the country, bid a combined Rs 61,162 crore (Rs 611.62 billion) in the spectrum auction held earlier this month.
The Canadian smartphone maker in October last year launched BBM for rival Android- and iOS-based handsets and the app since then has been downloaded on over 40 million such handsets.
After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
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