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Chat with Dr Nishanth, Founder PURE EV : Electric Scooter Service Focus

Plug In India

One in Bangladesh being added soon. Pure is not too keen about Multi brand showrooms because the company believes that it is not good for brand building. But the big challenge in India is that charging infra is not available. On the dealer front, Pure now has 84 operational outlets, including one in Nepal.

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U.K. Startup’s Digital Dyeing Printers Save Energy, Water

Cars That Think

At the end of a visit at a major textile dyeing factory, his customer took him behind the buildings to show a horrific scene: A blood-red river—wastewater from the dye baths leaching into the soil and entering the rivers. Then in Portugal, Turkey, but mainly in Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

Green Car Congress

India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five. In general, high scorers exhibit long-standing commitments to protecting public health, preserving natural resources, and decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic activity.

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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

Green Car Congress

These low values underscore the potential impact of population ageing on the labor market and economic performance, as well as the fiscal pressures that many countries will face in the coming decades as they seek to build and maintain public systems of health care, pensions and social protection for older persons.

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