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24 July
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Azim Premji was born.
Azim Premji: How a Cooking-Oil Business Became Wipro
A 21-year-old Stanford student inherited a cooking oil company, saw India’s technology gap, and built Wipro into a global IT power. Then he gave most of it away
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Indian businessman.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.
The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
Economic Liberalization 1991: How a Payments Crisis Remade India
In 1991, India was just weeks away from economic collapse. In a secret mission, gold was airlifted to London to keep the nation afloat. Discover the dramatic story…
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