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When will Indian start-ups play for high stakes like Chinese?

The Indian start-up ecosystem has long had a close relationship with Silicon Valley. But now, as Chinese firms make big investments in India and Chinese venture funds become more aggressive here, there’s a growing feeling that we can learn as much, or more, from China, as from the US. At th…

Low-cost desalination system for small textile dyeing units

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on developing a cost-effective modular desalination system to help small textile dyeing mills in India to comply with zero liquid discharge regulations. Zero liquid discharge provides for cleaning up potentially contaminat…

Knitwear manufacturers look beyond tax structure in GST

Knitwear manufacturers here are not ‘much’ concerned about the ‘mere rate structures’ of Goods and Services Tax (GST) but eagerly been looking at the macro approach that would be adopted for fixing various raw materials in the production chain into different slab categories. According to the cons…

SMEs find opportunity to migrate to cloud environment at no upfront cost

The bottom of the pyramid for Business-to-Business (B2B) companies are the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and their technology requirements are certainly very different from any large entity. Catering to their needs can be a very tricky challenge as the business volume is certainly high but …

India-UK trade agreement to spur trade at $20 bn by 2020: PHD Chamber

Prospective bilateral agreement and growth avenues would push trade between India and UK to USD 20 billion by 2020 from the current level of at around USD 14.3 billion in 2015-16, said Dr. Mahesh Gupta, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in a press statement issued. India and UK are …