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By Sanchita Dash

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1. SpaceX today launched Falcon 9 rocket successfully. This mission will facilitate the better communication services in these 4 countries (Southeast Asia, Mongolia, Australia and New Zealand).

2. Google is now part of the digital Indian dream. In a letter to IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that free cross-border data flow will benefit the Indian startups in global expansion.

3. Choose, pick and Go. India finally has its first cashier-less fully autonomous retail store, Watasale in Kochi. The outlet is inspired by Amazon Go.

4. Ministry of Corporate Affairs is planning to deregister over one lakh shell companies. In the earlier crackdown, government had struck off 70,000 paper companies.

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Sanchita Dash

Entrepreneur Staff

Former Senior Correspondent, Entrepreneur India

In the 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). 

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