Noted technocrat Sam Pitroda, who is credited as the father of the nation’s telecom revolution, on Tuesday flayed the Narendra Modi government for snatching away all the credit for the digital revolution started by Rajiv Gandhi, saying Modi “did not” initiate the digital India drive. “Modi didn’t start digital India…It’s a journey which started 25 years […]
Written by Prashin Chaturvedi, Business Transformation Leader – India’s Prime Minister Mr. Modi visited the Silicon Valley last month, and on the itinerary were the obvious inclusions – Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Also on the list was a curious entry – Tesla. Why Tesla? Modi surely did not make the high-profile visit to get an early […]
The Indo-US Startup Connect was a unique exhibition of Start-Ups that showcased products from 40 different companies. Forty startups from India are participating in the programme at San Jose, which was planned following PM Modi’s “Startup India, Stand up India” call from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day.
As top American CEOs held no punches about the “obstacles” in ease of doing business in India, Prime Minister Narendra promised to fast-track the decision-making process, acknowledging that “the world is not going to wait for us”.
I remember sitting in a tacky cafe in Chennai. It was February 2014 and I was meeting Akshat, one of my brother’s best friends since he was in town for the day. With a glint of excitement in his eyes, he leaned forward and said “I’ve been reading about this organization in South Africa using […]
The number of internet connections in India has grown by 65% from March 2016 to cross the 50 crore mark in 2018, in line with the target set by the Narendra Modi government three years ago. As per the latest information from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), by the end of September 2018, there were 56 […]
Zydus Hospitals has reportedly acquired one of the dozen hospitals of Columbia Asia Hospitals for an undisclosed amount. Columbia Asia stated that it sold its only hospital in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), of 90 beds, set up in 2014. Zydus already has two hospitals in Gujarat which is a 650-bed unit in Ahmedabad and the other one […]
The Modi Government has been very active in emphasizing the use and inclusion of new and emerging technologies in its digital space for simplifying resource-heavy procedures to trivial tasks like filing the ITR, which was once filled and submitted manually, is now completely online and autonomous. From huge opportunities in the IT Sector to coordinating […]
The second biggest state lender of the country, Punjab National Bank had yesterday informed about the fraudulent transactions of worth Rs 11400 crore, however, it didn’t reported anything about the people involved in the scam. Today morning around 10:12 am, it was reported that the suspected fraud has been carried out by the criminal in […]
“If a person sells ‘pakodas’ and takes home Rs 200 every evening, will it be considered employment or not?”, PM Modi said in an interview on Zee News. The statement of the PM created quite a buzz in the opposition parties as what he said implied that even selling Pakodas is a job. In the […]
The Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley, has announced the budget for 2018-19 today. Starting off with providing the details on how the previous year’s budget turned out, he mentioned how India stands out as the fastest economy in the world and now is a 2.5 trillion-dollar economy. On the basis of purchasing power, India […]
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor has begun international arbitration against India to seek more than $770 million in a dispute over unpaid state incentives, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by Reuters. In a legal notice sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, Nissan sought payment of incentives due from […]