Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is planning a 210 billion-rupee ($3.1 billion) package of state aid for India’s solar panel manufacturing industry, according to two officials. The so-called Prayas initiative, short for for “Pradhan Mantri Yojana for Augmenting Solar Manufacturing,” a ce…
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Paytm to help 1,000 start-ups improve its payments system
It is common practice in Silicon Valley for large technology companies such as Google, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft to provide startups with technology and financial help to build businesses in complementary areas. The concept is now being imported into India by Paytm, the country’s biggest paymen…
Govt to organise “Hunar Haat” for minorities at Trade Fair
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Minority Affairs is to organise an exhibition of handicrafts, embroidery etc made by the artisans from the Minority Communities at the India International Trade Fair. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on October 18. The…
Jaipur based start-up unveils email IDs in local languages
Data XGen Technologies, a Jaipur-based start-up, has introduced an email address service under ‘DATAMAIL’ that allows people to create email IDs in eight Indian languages. The languages include Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu and Bengali. The service is also available in En…
Sops for setting up textile units in MP
INDORE: With an aim to develop textile sector in the state, the fifth largest cotton producing state in the country, government claims to offer scores of facilities and tax relaxations for setting up textile units. Textile is one of the nine focus areas in Global Investors’ Summit (GIS). As…
Indonesia look to enhance trade relations with India for textile machinery
In order to maintain the competitiveness of the country’s textile and textile products (TPT) in the global market, the Indonesian Textile Association (API) has requested the local players in the industry to regularly upgrade their production facilities. Most of the textile makers in the country p…
Start-up contest to kick off in Kochi on October 20
With an aim to test innovative skills and technical knowledge of fledgling electronic start-ups, city-based Maker Village, one of India’s largest incubators, will team up with Bosch to host an event on October 20. At the event titled ‘Bosch DNA Grand Challenge’, to be held at KI…
Affordable healthcare tech start-ups get backing from Mazumdar-Shaw, Healthquad
While rapid urbanisation is the future of India over the next few decades, much of the country’s 1.2 billion people still live in villages that don’t have access to health care. Slowly, a few startups are coming up in the country that are attempting to solve the problem, and finding backers for t…
Parenting platform BabyChakra raises Series A funding from RoundGlass
BabyChakra, a social discovery platform for young parents in India, BabyChakra announced that it has raised its Series-A funding from Seattle-based RoundGlass. The funding will help BabyChakra invest in product development, strategic hires and to creating localised content, said the company state…
225 regional hubs cover last mile delivery for Amazon India
Amazon Transportation Services (ATS), the captive logistics arm of Amazon India, has created a network of 225 hubs run by delivery-service partners to run the last-mile delivery hubs in metros and tier-II and -III cities and manage the peak loads. The Service Partner (SP) network, which was rolle…