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Indian School of Business Inks Pact With Sap India For Startups
31Aug By AdityaNo Comments
INDIA

Indian School of Business Inks Pact With Sap India For Startups

The Indian School of Business (ISB) and SAP Labs India have entered into a collaboration to nurture technology-based startups in the social space, focusing on ventures which are working in areas that have relevance to national priorities. According to a statement issued by the ISB, titled Jumpstart Social Enterprise Accelerator, the programme aims to identify and support 10 early stage and 5 growth stage promising ventures by providing guidance, mentorship and scaling up their technology solutions that can bring about a large scale impact in the lives of common people. "Through this initiative, we are supporting in creating investible and growth oriented social enterprises which can contribute to the economic development of our country," said Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Managing Director of...
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Karnataka Govt Signed MoUs With Eight Companies, Including Google and PwC
31Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INDIA

Karnataka Govt Signed MoUs With Eight Companies, Including Google and PwC

The Karnataka government today signed MoUs with eight companies including Google and PwC to cater to the needs of the identified 100 startups under the state's 'Elevate 100 programme.' "Google which will provide $3000 worth of cloud credits for startups registered with Startup Cell and $20,000 worth of cloud credit for startups who are winners of Elevate100," said state IT Minister Priyank Kharge. Elevate 100 is a government project which will help elevate selected 100 startups by providing them funds and mentors to help them turn their ideas into successful businesses. PwC will provide mentoring and consulting services for sustainable growth of startups and Yes Bank will give banking services, API Integration and customized solutions for these startups. Kotak Bank will provide hel...
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RBI To Issue Rs 200 Notes: FinMin
23Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
BUSINESS, INDIA

RBI To Issue Rs 200 Notes: FinMin

The government today gave its go-ahead to the Reserve Bank to issue Rs 200 notes that will ease pressure on lower-denomination currency bills. The finance ministry, in a notification, said that on the recommendations of the Central Board of Directors of the RBI, "the central government hereby specifies the denomination of banknotes of the value of two hundred rupees". The new Rs 200 notes are likely to be in circulation shortly. According to sources, the exercise of printing Rs 200 denomination notes is being undertaken to further improve the currency situation in the country. Following the demonetisation on November 9 last year, the Reserve Bank had introduced Rs 2,000 notes and also issued a new Rs 500 notes with additional security features. ALSO READ   Alibaba...
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh Launches A Digital Police Portal
21Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INDIA

Home Minister Rajnath Singh Launches A Digital Police Portal

A digital police portal under the CCTNS project, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals, was today launched by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Singh said the digital police portal will provide the citizen, facility for online complaint registration and request for antecedent verification. "The police portal will provide 11 searches and 46 reports from the national database for state police and central investigation agencies. Central investigating and research agencies have also been provided logins to the digital police database to access crime statistics," he said after launching the portal.  The home minister said the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project (CCTNS) has enabled 13,775 out of 15,398 police stations to enter 100 percent data...
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Indian PM Narendra Modi To Meet 200 Startup Entrepreneurs And CEOs
17Aug By RishabhNo Comments
INDIA, News

Indian PM Narendra Modi To Meet 200 Startup Entrepreneurs And CEOs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet 200 startup entrepreneurs and CEOs who have set up successful business right from the scratch; today to discuss on a range of issues including job creation, income growth and innovation at a session organized by federal policy think tank NITI Aayog. (more…)
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Startups Can Help Find Solutions To Indian Problems, Says Missile Woman Of India
24Jul By AnkitaNo Comments
INDIA

Startups Can Help Find Solutions To Indian Problems, Says Missile Woman Of India

Eminent scientist Tessy Thomas called upon the youth to take up initiatives like start-ups to help the government fight challenges in sectors like health, environment and education. Thomas - known as the Missile Woman of India - was speaking at the Convocation 2017 of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science yesterday.  The quality of Indian graduates coming out from such institutes would also have significant impact on the global economy as many of the students join the MNCs and global corporates. It is worth reminding ourselves of this goal as India today is faced with challenges in the domains of health, sanitation, housing, environment and education and cannot be resolved by the government alone. "To overcome these, it is important that graduating students such as you take th...
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Kailash Satyarthi Says Use Technology To Solve Social Problems
22Jul By AdityaNo Comments
INDIA, INSPIRATIONAL

Kailash Satyarthi Says Use Technology To Solve Social Problems

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has asked professionals to use technology to solve social problems in addition to their business requirements. "The world is at your fingertips," Satyarthi said at an event hosted by social networking platform for professionals, LinkedIn India here yesterday to interact with its employees in Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai about his work against the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. Satyarthi also spoke about the challenges, struggles and opposition he faced when he started his journey, 37 years ago. He reminisced about how at the time, India did not have a law when it came to protecting children from abuse and trafficking and how far it has come today. "It is easy to walk on the available path, its difficult to walk on an unexplored path or t...
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G20 Hamburg Action Plan Praises India For Promoting Startups at G20 Summit 2017
9Jul By AnkitaNo Comments
INDIA

G20 Hamburg Action Plan Praises India For Promoting Startups at G20 Summit 2017

Acknowledging steps being taken by India for sustainable and inclusive growth as well as support to global economy, the G20 has praised the initiatives in the country for promoting ease of doing business, startup funding and labour reforms. In its Hamburg Action Plan, adopted at the G20 Summit of leaders from the worlds 20 largest economies, the group also noted that "in the financial sector, India is popularising a number of derivative instruments in exchanges or electronic trading platforms" as part of measures to enhance resilience of its economy. The G20 (or G-20 or Group of Twenty) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies. Currently, these are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy...
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Delhi Police Relaunches Upgraded Version of Women’s Safety App ‘Himmat’
2Jul By RishabhNo Comments
INDIA

Delhi Police Relaunches Upgraded Version of Women’s Safety App ‘Himmat’

All set to be launched for the third time, the Delhi Polices women's safety mobile app Himmat will bring together all helpline numbers on one platform. The app was first launched in 2015 and despite its relaunch in April this year, it found few takers. To give the app a face lift, the Delhi Police has engaged students from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology. They have carried out a survey to study the shortcomings of the app. The students are young and can give fresh ideas that can be incorporated in the latest version of the app, said Delhi Police commissioner Amulya Patnaik. "The major clientele that we will be targeting is from the student community, so the idea is to get their feedback. In all probability we will try to finalise it by the end of this m...
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GST is a ‘Good and Simple Tax’ That Will End Small Biz Harassment: PM Modi
1Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INDIA

GST is a ‘Good and Simple Tax’ That Will End Small Biz Harassment: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has billed GST as a 'good and simple tax' that will end harassment of traders and small businesses while integrating India into one market with one tax rate. At an event to launch the Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the historic Central Hall of Parliament, Modi said the indirect tax reform is a result of combined efforts of various political parties at different points of time. GST, he said, is an example of cooperative federalism as the centre and states together thrashed out the new law with consensus. Besides being a transparent and fair system that will end generation of black money and corruption, GST will promote new governance culture that will end harassment at the hand of tax officials. Touching upon initial teething troubles that may be wi...
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