SHIMLA- Himachal Pradesh will soon be the first state in India to introduce inter-state zero-emission electric buses. The Central government sanctioned Rs 35 crore for the project and the process of tender has started. We will receive funds to introduce environment friendly electric bus service. Charging stations will be set up at bus stands soon,said […]
NEW DELHI: Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Start Up India initiative, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy today said it will encourage entrepreneurship and generate jobs. “At the end of the day… it is about the power of entrepreneurship, how it can create lots of jobs and how there is a need to encourage our youngsters to create […]
Amitabh Kant, secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, was on Thursday appointed as the chief executive officer of Niti Aayog. He will take over the new job after his retirement, next month-end. The competent authority has approved the appointment of Kant, a 1980 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, as CEO of […]
With greater possessions and a good rank comes greater responsibilities. It need not to be reminded how some of the extraordinary Indians have made many globally scaled headlines. Be it our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi or Sundar Pichai who proved his worth by becoming the CEO of Google or his ex-colleague Nikesh Arora, President […]
Taxi-hailing app Uber on Monday announced a new start-up mentorship programme in the country in partnership with Invest India called ‘uberEXCHANGE’. Over the next years, Uber will host a series of six leadership talks by senior Uber executives, including from their headquarters in San Francisco, the company said in a statement. The programme will address […]
New Delhi- (PTI) Calling upon automakers to develop homegrown technologies to build environment-friendly car engines under the Make in India drive, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said encouraging such endeavours will help them save on huge royalty costs. “Even today despite more than 90 per cent indigenisation some of our car manufactures have been paying […]
Tata Trusts, and Khan Academy, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit education initiative founded by educationist Salman Khan, announced that they were entering into a five-year partnership to leverage the power of technology to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere in the country. The partnership will focus on developing tech-enabled, high quality and localised education resources […]
Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it’s Khan Academy Blog – Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, […]
Self-proclaimed ethical hacker, Ankit Fadia, has been allegedly appointed as one of the brand ambassadors for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative. On his Facebook page Fadia posted a photo of a certificate issued by the department of electronics and information technology, which states that he is a brand ambassador for the Digital India […]
India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday took to YouTube to back Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ campaign focused on connecting 1.2 billion people in the country and said his company would play its part in supporting the initiative.
What we will say, Is this Narendra modi effect or what but China’s one of the largest search engine Baidu and one of the country’s biggest private conglomerates Fosun are scouting to invest in Indian startups, joining compatriots from the Middle Kingdom eager to profit from the opportunities in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Investment […]
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day dream of India succeeding as ‘startup’ country has to kick start, there is a lot to learn from the original ‘startup nation’ Israel. The tiny country of Israel mushrooms almost two new startup companies every day and today houses some 5000 startups. New Delhi of course is just […]