New Delhi: Financial technologies and learning solutions are this appraisal season’s winning bets at startups in India, where last quarter’s currency swap and the government’s visible drive toward digital transactions may help dislodge marketplace unicorns as bulge-bracket paymasters. The reversa…
Social start-ups help citizens get access to various govt programmes
Ahmedabad: All government budgets slot in schemes that promise to improve the lives of millions, but very few of the intended beneficiaries ever fully understand what they are entitled to. That information gap makes for a huge business opportunity. A growing tribe of social enterprises that inclu…
RBI 0.25 फीसदी घटा सकता है इंटरेस्ट रेट, मॉनिटरी पॉलिसी की आज से दो दिवसीय बैठक
आरबीआई एक बार फिर आपको सस्ते कर्ज का तोहफा दे सकता है। इसके तहत वह रेपो रेट में 0.25 फीसदी की कटौती कर सकता है। इकोनॉमिस्ट के अनुसाार, आरबीआई ऐसा बजट में उठाए गए कदमों और मौजूदा इन्फ्लेशन रेट को देखते हुए कर सकता है। अगर ऐसा होता है, तो आपके लिए होम लोन, व्हीकल […]
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Start-up fever remains strong for tech-savvy Indians
Bangalore: In the basement of a Bangalore building, hundreds of young Indians sit in neat rows of desks typing furiously, all dreaming of becoming the new Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. A quarter of a century after liberalisation kick-started India’s economic transformation, a new generatio…
Why SMEs should take digital marketing seriously
In today’s digital era, having an online presence for a business is a critical requirement. If you are not online, you do not exist. However, a lot of enterprises and business owners today still feel that they do not need to know about digital marketing. If you belong to the strata that is …
Budget raises India’s capital market ambitions
The Indian government has unveiled its most ambitious target for public share sales so far, looking to capitalise on the robust domestic capital markets to cut its annual deficit. In last week’s federal budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley set a 725 billion rupees ($10.76 billion) target f…
चौथी बार एक्सटेंड हो सकता है स्टील पर BIS, स्टील क्षेत्र की SMEs ने बढ़ाया दबाव
छोटे स्टील कारोबारी एक बार फिर स्टील प्रोडक्ट पर स्टेनलेस स्टील क्वालिटी कंट्रोल ऑर्डर (बीआईएस) लागू करने की डेडलाइन बढ़ाने की मांग कर रही है। उनके अनुसार बीआईएस लेने वाली कंपनियां कम है। स्टील मंत्रालय पहले ही चार बार बीआईएस की डेडलाइन बढ़ा चुकी है। स्टील एसोसिएशन मंत्रालय पर डेडलाइन बढ़ाने का प…
Maharashtra govt to relax labour law norms for start-ups
Mumbai: In an attempt to improve the ease of doing business, the Maharashtra government plans to exempt new startups from inspections relating to key labour laws for a period of three years. This follows the Centre’s move to relax labour law compliance for startups. The laws include the Con…
Big challenges before small finance banks
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd, the fifth such bank in India and the largest among the five in terms of their small loan portfolio, will make its formal debut on Monday after running a pilot programme in five of its microfinance branches in Bengaluru. Professor Muhammad Yunus, a microfinance pion…
MDMA seeks to generate over Rs 500 cr new businesses
Mumbai Diamond Merchant Association (MDMA) on February 5 signed MoU with MP and Indore Sarafa Associations for design and newer avenues to generate over Rs 500 crore new business and creating over 1 lakh job opportunities in the gold and diamond jewellery trade, said a PTI report. “We have entere…