With an aim to support employability initiatives in the country and encourage youth to take up entrepreneurship, BYST (Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust), a not for profit organization dedicated to empower underprivileged youth, is gearing up to organize India’s first International Mentoring Summit. Th…
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Launching new start-up not easy despite large ecosystem: President
President Pranab Mukherjee said it was not easy to launch a new start-up in the country owing to issues related to funding and others, despite India having a “large eco-system” for such maiden ventures. There is a need to provide “a facilitative environment to India’s yout…
President kickstarts Budget session 2017 with address; Top 10 highlights of the speech
The 2017 budget session of the parliament began with President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to members of both the houses on January 31. Speaking to the legislators of the country, the President said that this was a historic session heralding advancement of the budget cycle and merger of general bu…
Pearl Academy strengthens its partnership with Khadi India
Pearl Academy, an institute for fashion, design and creative business entered into a partnership with Khadi India, as the students performed at the Khadi tableau which was a part of the 68th Republic Day celebrations in Delhi on January 26. The students of Pearl Academy adorned themselves in Khad…
Govt to present Union Budget for 2017-18 on February 1
New Delhi: The Cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs on January 3rd recommended holding of the Budget Session from January 31 when the government is likely to table the Economy Survey followed by the Union Budget on February 1. The CCPA headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh met here and made…
India’s September exports growth gives hope, says Sitharaman
Indian exports grew at 4.62 per cent in September to revive hope among the country’s exporters struggling against depressed global demand, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. “So, there is hope. There is definitely prospect for our exporters struggling and also performing in a …
Support SMEs to boost India’s exports: President Pranab Mukherjee
President Pranab Mukherjee on November 8 said the Centre needs to ensure that India’s exporters, particularly those in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment, are adequately supported through appropriate policy interventions to help them tide over the present downturn. India’s exports had…
Centre mulling to ‘advance’ Winter Session for early GST roll out
In a bid to roll out the crucial Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1, 2017, the Modi government is considering to prepone the Winter session of Parliament to pass the CGST and IGST bills, and pave way for implementation of the new sales tax regime. The Winter session of Parliament is genera…
India needs to retain its export market share | Pranab Mukherjee
As the volume of world trade is expected to remain sluggish in 2016, India needs to devise cohesive strategies of retaining its market share first and then increasing it, President Pranab Mukherjee said. He also said that exports sector is dynamic and is affected by changes in the policy both at …
President Pranab Mukherjee pitches for new-age financing to drive start-ups
Noting that every start-up has to face a ‘valley of death’ as returns from innovation processes are skewed, President Pranab Mukherjee said new-age financing options like angel investors, venture capitalists and crowd funding can meet the special needs of such projects in the formativ…