A nip in the air and visible excitement on the faces marked the first day of the first ever “Start Up Conclave East’17”, a landmark affair, at Beldih Club on March 4. The two-day conclave is being coordinated by students of the Entrepreneurship Cell, XLRI Jamshedpur, in association with Tata Stee…
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Amazon cloud attracts start-ups, SMBs in India
Practo is a fast growing Indian start-up in the healthcare space that connects more than 60 million users with 200,000 doctors and 10,000 hospitals. Thanks to Amazon cloud, it has scaled by a factor of 60x and reduced new product deployment time from many months to a few weeks. More than 40 milli…
India Inc putting CSR money in start-up incubators
Companies like SAP, Tata Motors and Bajaj Electricals are investing in startups through government-affiliated incubators as a part of their mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending. Nearly a dozen companies have shown interest in spending CSR money in incubators at the IITs and II…
Govt to make automobile manufacturing main driver of Make in India initiative
The Government of India aims to make automobiles manufacturing the main driver of ‘Make In India’ initiative, as it expects passenger vehicles market to reach 9.4 million units by 2026, as highlighted in the Auto Mission Plan (AMP) 2016-26, said Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Secretary G…
Govt seeking ways to increase India’s automotive global supply: Nitin Gadkari
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on August 31 said the government is seeking ways to increase India’s exports to the automotive global supply. It is also attempting to implement a scrapping policy for old vehicles to reduce vehicular pollution. “The automotive sector is on the road towards …
Amazon reaches the cloud to shower start-ups with data
One of the world’s biggest providers of cloud computing services in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched two data centres in Mumbai on June 28. The new AWS Mumbai Region consists of two separate Availability Zones, data centres in distinct locations within a single region that can funct…
Romantic about SMEs alone will not create jobs | CEA
The West Bengal government might be bullish about small and medium enterprises (SME) but that will not generate jobs, warned Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian. “SMEs are things to be romantic about, but that does not generate dynamism or jobs,” Subramanian said in an obvious reference to …