Shillong, April 12 (PTI) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman Vinay Kumar Saxena has announced setting up of seven to eight Khadi institutes in Meghalaya. “We will be setting up around 7 to 8 Khadi institutes this year in Meghalaya,” Saxena told. He said that the co…
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It is the beginning of start-up boom in India: Rajan Anandan, VP, Google India
With the median age of 27, India has the largest number of youngsters and the Google chief says that they’re born digital with a growing insatiable need for the internet. When it comes to the internet, the growing tribe of emerging businesses on the internet can’t be ignored. Anandan feels that t…
Number of handicraft artisans declining in Nagaland
Kohima: There has been a decline in the number of handicraft artisans in Nagaland, with fewer than 10,000 registered as compared to 40,000 artisans in the state some few years back. This was stated by Assistant Director (Handicrafts), Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) Marketing & Service…
Focus to be on skill development in services sector: NSDC
Deoghar (Jharkhand), April 13 (IANS) Admitting that the manufacturing sector is not growing as expected, India’s premier skill development platform, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), is focusing more on the services sector — like tourism, hospitality and healthcare — to train mil…
Govt asks IIM, JNU, Harvard to review its skill development programmes
The Centre has decided to reach out to reputed academic institutions to evaluate its ambitious skill development programmes, which have faced questions over their effectiveness. The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is in talks with IIM- Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Harvard…
Make in India: Russia sees India as a destination for R&D innovations
India will soon be in the fore front in the global innovations and technology for socio economic development. The department of Science and technology will install over 50 super computers across the country in this direction. This was announced by the centre at the Global R and D summit 2017 at B…
Axilor Ventures inducts 20 start-ups in its fifth accelerator batch
Bengaluru: The startups span across five sectors – consumer internet, enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare and fintech. Axilor, whose programmes include accelerator, scale-up, and early-stage funding, counts Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal of Infosys, …
Towards Future: Technical textiles exhibition ‘Technotex’ commences in Mumbai
Mumbai on April 12 witnessed the inauguration of the 6th edition of Technotex-2017, India’s premier Exhibition on theme “Technical Textiles: Towards Future“. The exhibition is being organized by Ministry of Textiles and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FIC…
BigBasket eyes Rs 500 cr revenues from HoReCa segment
From the modest kitchens of middle-class homes to the pantries of India’s 5-star hotels, bigbasket has now established itself as the preferred grocery partner for all. In what can be called another milestone, bigbasket clocked Rs 100 crore annualized turnover by Mar 2017 from its B2B food s…
SaaS platform Omnify raises funding from Google India MD
Software as a Service (SaaS) has been an emerging technology in today’s world supporting many applications. SaaS technology is the part of cloud computing that provides many business applications like payroll processing software, enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM)…