New Delhi, July 22, 2026 (AFP) - India's domestic workers go online as instant services boom

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Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bedsheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay. Households in India have long relied on an informal army of domestic workers to mop floors, wash dishes and cook meals. A growing crop of tech startups is now attempting to bring structure to the unregulated sector that employs some 30 mi......

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