US-based Amazon and Uber kept a conspicuous silence on Thursday after the poster boys of Indian Internet entrepreneurship — Flipkart Chairman Sachin Bansal and Ola Chief Executive Officer Bhavish Aggarwal — joined forces to make a strong pitch for policies that will favour homegrown companies. So…
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Currency Switch Impact | ‘India could become a digital colony’ warns Mohandas Pai
With China and the US pumping in massive foreign capital into India’s digital economy, a top Indian investor and educationist has warned that the country could become a “digital colony” unless Indian businesses start investing in it. “India could become a digital colony,” warned Mohandas Pai, Cha…
Create seamless industry value chain to engage trained & certified workforce: Skill Development Secy
To make India a global human resource hub and achieve sustainability in skill development, the private sector needed to employ only trained and certified workers. It is essential that a seamless industry value chain is created to engage the trained and certified workforce, said Rohit Nandan, Secr…
Start-ups can now pitch for government contracts in Karnataka
Karnataka plans to become the first state in the country to allow start-ups to pitch for local government contracts, a move that could potentially revolutionise procurement for government agencies by bringing down costs and access to new technology solutions. The move called ‘the start-up forum’,…