Tag: education

Foreign Trade Policy review: Commerce dept seeks sops for small exporters

New Delhi: The Commerce Department is expected to push for higher interest subsidy and a wider export credit insurance as it seeks to make life easier for small exporters. As part of review of the Foreign Trade Policy, the department is also seeking to widen services basket and make it more attra…

Create ecosystem to make new IPR Policy successful: Suresh Prabhu

Start-ups in India show a positive approach towards creation, protection and management of IPR, so as to enable them to compete in the global market and achieve growth in business. It is widely acknowledged that Intellectual Property (IP) can improve the competitiveness of start-ups and act as a …

Innovate we must. Failure is not an option

The great Robert Noyce once said, “At the heart of what is possible is innovation and imagination”. Since I came back to India, I have been even more fascinated by the statement and how aptly it summed up the situation in the country. For centuries India has been a land of promise and potential, …

Jharkhand signs 8 MoUs for development of textile, IT & other sectors

Launching a road show named ‘Momentum Jharkhand’ in Mumbai, the Jharkhand government signed eight MoUs with different companies in the western metropolis. The state has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Orient Craft Limited in the textile sector worth Rs 1,500 crore for co…

Karnataka calls for finding tech solution to its problems

As part of its goal to elicit 25 innovative technology solutions with a social impact in sectors such as healthcare, education, food security, and environment, the Karnataka Startup Cell has laucnhed the first call for proposals in association with IKP Knowledge Park under its Grand Challenges. T…

Among MSMEs, services sector outpaces manufacturing

CRISIL’s analysis of the performance of 4,000 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) between FY 2013 and FY 2015 shows the growth of the services sector handily outpacing the manufacturing sector. While the services sector grew at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20 per cent, d…

Chinese investors looking for Indian startups

Chinese investors and technology entrepreneurs are looking to invest in start-ups specialising in areas such as mobile gaming, education, healthcare, financial technology and Internet of Things (IoT) in India. This month, a delegation of investors from nine Chinese venture capital firms visited B…

Khadda Nagar Panchayat in UP to be an investment hub

Residents of the town Khadda in Uttar Pradesh, along with the Nagar Panchayat, is gearing up to hold a Business summit to showcase various investment and tourism opportunities present in the town. The summit, which is likely to be held during the month of May, will aim to attract both domestic an…