About a month ago in Lucknow, after flagging off the Union government’s Startup Yatrainitiative, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced a Rs 1,000-crore corpus to support emerging business through various schemes. “I believe if Uttar Pradesh takes an initiativ…
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NITI Aayog to prepare roadmap for pushing domestic manufacturing of lightweight body armours
New Delhi : The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the Niti Aayog to set up an inter-ministerial empowered committee to prepare a roadmap to ‘encourage domestic manufacturing’ of lightweight body armours for the army and para-military forces. The committee, according to a senior governm…
TN govt plans to introduce a business facilitation Bill for ease of doing biz
The Tamil Nadu government is planning to introduce a business facilitation Bill next month that will be backed by a legislation to put the state on the investment map again. The state has slipped from the 12th to the 18th spot this year in ease of doing business rankings, rele…
DIPP to rank States & UTs on basis of measures taken to promote entrepreneurship
The DIPP with the help of World Bank already ranks states in terms of measures they are taking to promote ease of doing business.
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Haryana to emerge an innovation hub on back of Cabinet approved start-up policy
The approved draft policy aims to rope-in Rs 1500 crore for incubation of 500 start-ups; Will facilitate at least Rs 200 crore worth venture capital
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India Israel Innovation Bridge: Govt invites start-up proposals in Agri, Digital Health & Water
Earlier in July this year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel, among other agreements, the two countries also two countries also launched a bilateral innovation challenge for startups in Israel and India – India Israel Innovation Bridge. The India Israel Innovation Br…
Startup India: 67 start-up receive tax benefits so far, says CR Chaudhary
The government has extended tax benefits to 67 startups so far with a view to promoting budding entrepreneurs in the country, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry C R Chaudhary said. In January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had unveiled a slew of incentives to boost …
CIPAM-DIPP launches social media campaign to promote Geographical Indications
The Cell for IPR Promotions & Management (CIPAM) under the aegis of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has launched a social media campaign to promote Indian Geographical Indications (GIs) with #LetsTalkIP which is an ongoing movement init…
Govt introduces 80% rebate on patent fee for start-ups
As per new norms, DIPP will bear the facilitation cost on behalf of start-ups and provide rebates in the statutory fee for the filing of applications
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DIPP is here with 2nd edition of Startup India States’ Conference to address critical issues of ecosystem
DIPP invites suggestions and queries pertaining to start-up ecosystem in India to address with State governments at September 12 conference in New Delhi
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