The Gujarat Traders Federation on April 22 asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene for easing the rules and structure of the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST). The federation reached out to Prime Minister Modi through a letter which pointed out various hindrances towards ease of doing…
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Prime Minister to inaugurate Textiles India 2017
The Ministry of Textiles presented a curtain raiser to ‘Textiles India 2017’ – positioned as the first ever global B2B Textile and handicrafts event in India, at the Crafts Museum in the national capital April 18. The event was hosted by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, under the le…
Lack of local parts hampers Make in India campaign
In February, weather stations located around the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya recorded 600mm of rainfall in Cherrapunjee, a town of 15,000 people. Although the area generally gets more rain than almost anywhere else on earth, the state until recently lacked such real-time information on w…
Not just “Make” but “Design in India” to take a lead in jewellery sector worldwide, pitches PM
Driving the “Make in India” agenda to push up factory output and create more jobs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 17 urged the diamond industry in Surat to take a lead in making the country as number one in the gems and jewellery sector. India’s net gems and jewellery exports, which were a…
डिजिटल पेमेंट बढ़ाने के लिये पीएम मोदी करेंगे BHIM-आधार की शुरुआत, अंगूठा लगाइये पेमेंट कीजिए
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी, डिजिटल पेमेंट को आसान बनाने को लेकर व्यापारियों के लिये भीम-आधार प्लेटफार्म और भीम एप के लिए नकद वापसी (कैशबैक) और ‘रेफरल बोनस’ स्कीम की कल नागपुर में शुरूआत करेंगे. कल आंबेडकर जयंती पर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी इसकी शुरुआत करने जा रहे हैं. अब आप पड़ोस की दुकान पर अंगूठ…
Focus to be on skill development in services sector: NSDC
Deoghar (Jharkhand), April 13 (IANS) Admitting that the manufacturing sector is not growing as expected, India’s premier skill development platform, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), is focusing more on the services sector — like tourism, hospitality and healthcare — to train mil…
Mswipe in talks to raise up to $40 mn
Mumbai: Mobile payments services provider Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd has initiated talks to raise as much as $40 million (around Rs250 crore) in a new round of funding, two people aware of the development said. The firm which provides merchants with mobile point of sale (PoS) terminals to enabl…
C’garh adopting best practices of Singapore & Silicon Valley
Chhattisgarh has started adapting the best policy practices from the fastest growing entrepreneurial eco-systems, like in Singapore and the Silicon Valley, to accelerate entrepreneurial growth to provide a major push to the ‘Startup Chhattisgarh’ programme, officials informed. It is now aggressiv…
36 proposals selected under ‘Start Up Chhattisgarh’ to set up units
A total of 3,858 persons have shared their start-up ideas under ‘Start Up Chhattisgarh’ programme out of which 36 ideas have been selected for setting up units which will be provided refund of all taxes deposited by them. The State Government has provisioned Rs 3 crore in the budget of fiscal yea…
Xiaomi wants to incubate hardware start-ups
Bengaluru: Chinese electronics company Xiaomi is looking to incubate hardware start-ups and wants to open more manufacturing units as it sees considerable potential in the world’s third largest consumer market. Lei Jun, Chairman and CEO of the multi-billion dollar privately held company, which ma…