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By Sanchita Dash

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1. India salutes Mary Kom. The female boxer has become the only woman to win six gold medals in the World Boxing Championships.

2. Elon Musk has a way of staying in the headlines. The serial entrepreneur now wants the earth to be renamed Water, as the planet's surface has 71% water.

3. Former FreeCharge boss Kunal Shah is ready with a new venture CRED. The fintech platform will celebrate the trustworthy individuals and reward credit card holders upon timely bill payments.

4. While Amazon was busy promoting Black Friday sales, Amazon workers staged protests across Europe chanting "We are not robots".

Here's the "news that entrepreneurs can use". Know what's trending in the Indian business world in 60 seconds.

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). 

Stories, movies and PJs are my thing. 

If you hear 'The Office' opening score randomly, don't worry it's just my phone ringing. 

 

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