India and South Korea agreed to deepen cooperation among their small and medium enterprises through technology transfer, joint ventures, business alliances and facilitation of mutual market access. Both countries also emphasised on providing support to each other’s startups in accordance with the…
Decoding GST: How it will impact Indian start-ups
Even as the government is still deliberating on the list of over 5,000 goods that will be taxed under the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST), Indian start-ups have welcomed passage of the Bill, which they feel will simplify conduct of business. Start-ups believe it will simplify taxation in th…
Indian Start-up 2.0 – A progressive perspective
From a formal dining to a privately held house party, the cacophony is incomplete without the much heated discussion about the disarmed & constraining unicorn e-commerce businesses in India today. Disappointing or concerning, jabbering or learning, the word is loud & clear, currently the …
Government, industry to chalk out roadmap for Indian textile sector
Gandhinagar: Several Union ministers, key policymakers and representatives of the global textile and apparel industry will try to thrash out the issues facing the sector at a 3-day international conference here from June 30. It will suggest a 10 year roadmap for the sector’s growth. Union T…
Online procurement start-up Adurcup raises funds; Plans to reach 10k unique orders a month with 2k+ SMEs
‘Food’ in any form is a business in itself. Whether it’s farming, processing, procurement, delivery – food forms an evergreen industry with niches worth exploring. IIT Kanpur alumni – Abhishek Verma, Harshit Mittal, Kumar Kushang and Nitin Prakash are trying to disrupt one such niche – making t…
How IoT can make India’s manufacturing sector smarter
Manufacturing processes and machines are automated in such a way that they can administer themselves; smart machines that can avert damage by taking preventive action or smart factories where requirements get fulfilled automatically. Doesn’t it sound incredible? Well, this is where modern technol…
Raising funds major challenge for internet start-ups in India: Study
Even though the government has been trying its best to ensure sustained funding for startups, a large number of internet-based startups are yet to get any formal funding in the form of business grants, loans or lines of credit, a survey said in New Delhi on March 30. A dipstick survey of bootstra…
Skill Development Ministry to set up separate education board for Industrial Training Institutes
Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has accepted skill development ministry’s proposal of setting up a separate education board for the ITI pass-outs to offer them class X and XII certificates, the parliament was informed on March 30. The academic certificates issued to the ITI pass-outs…
Agritech start-ups using imaging tech to offer real-time solution to farmers
Bengaluru: Baburao Mule, a 67year-old Maharashtrian farmer, has spent the last three months capturing images of his crops in Narayan village through agritech startup RML AgTech’s mobile application feature crop doc. “Within a minute, through the app, I can understand what pest has att…
Srikkanth bats for small ideas, entrepreneurs
Hyderabad: Batting for entrepreneurs from rural areas and those who work on a smaller scale, former Indian cricket team skipper, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, urged investors to devise an “innovative way of investing” in more number of smaller startups. This, according to him, will not on…