Driving the “Make in India” agenda to push up factory output and create more jobs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 17 urged the diamond industry in Surat to take a lead in making the country as number one in the gems and jewellery sector. India’s net gems and jewellery exports, which were a…
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Services need to gear up for Industrial Revolution 4.0: Nirmala Sitharaman
Greater Noida: India’s services sector must gear up to take advantage of Industrial Revolution 4.0, which will create huge opportunities in high-tech manufacturing, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. Emphasising on the growing importance of services sector, she said India has also r…
In the absence of RBI guidelines, a code of conduct for digital lending start-ups
Bengaluru: The Digital Lenders Association of India, an industry body of about 20 startups in the digital lending space, has laid down a general code of conduct for its members which is likely to ensure more transparency in this nascent sector yet to be governed by specific guidelines by the Rese…
Zero-defect plan: Tirupur cluster seeks Centre’s support for workforce skilling
Coimbatore: Apparel exporters in Tirupur have set their sights on making the cluster a ‘zero defect textile manufacturing hub’ in India. To achieve this vision, they have sought government support for a one-time intervention. Recalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for making Indian manufac…
Fresh bad loans created in Agriculture, SMEs due to demonetisation, says Pronab Sen
Pronab Sen, the former secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, was responsible for setting up the government’s data gathering machinery as the first Chief Statistician of India. One of the most regarded economists, he has taught at the Delhi School of Economics and J…
India Accelerator to offer early-stage tech start-ups benefits from 70 leading accelerators
New Delhi: Gurgaon-based India Accelerator is set to launch an incubation programme this month and offer early-stage technology startups benefits from its newly-acquired membership of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN), a consortium of 70 leading accelerators in the world including H-Farm in It…
Cisco eyes India as global export hub
New Delhi: Network equipment maker Cisco said it wants to make India a global export hub for its hardware products and is working with its global component making partners so that they too set up shop in the country to facilitate this plan. The $50-billion company, for whom India has been one of …
5 Cockroach ways for a start-up to light the beacon
Gone are the days of the highly valued and well-funded unicorn startups that leapt high but fell later. Having burnt their fingers with unicorns, investors are now shying away from them and turning their attention to cockroach startups that are slowly, but steadily focussed on building a robust b…
70% of India’s small, mid-sized firms yet to start GST preparations
About 70% of the country’s small and mid-sized firms are yet to begin preparations to get synced with the goods and services tax (GST) structure even as the country prepares to roll out the biggest indirect tax reform from July 1. Consulting major KPMG and the Federation of Small Medium Enterpris…
Giriraj Singh launches State Organic Mission in Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh took a major leap towards healthy and sustainable agriculture on April 15 with the launch of the State Organic Mission at the state Banquet Hall by Union Minister of State for Micro Small and Medium Enterprise, Giriraj Singh. With this, the state hopes to shift to organic farmin…