- Startup Events To Attend This Week: Entrepreneurship Conclave, Delhi Mixer And More This is Inc42’s latest edition of what startup events are coming up this week. It is popularly agreed that data management is the future of the tech world. There is an immense movement around the globe in terms of data management but keeping its due importance that data exerts on our daily lives, data companies […]
- Finland Companies Enthusiastic About India’s Smart Cities Mission: Finnish Minister Kimmo Tiilikainen Traditionally, Finland and India have enjoyed cordial international relations with each other. Today, India presents a vast and lucrative market for Finland’s technology products and investments. In a recent interview with GOInternational Finland, Finnish Minister of the Environment, Energy and Housing, Kimmo Tiilikainen reiterated the importance of Finland-India bilateral relations. Focus Areas Of Bilateral Relations […]
- Indian Banks’ Association To Set Up Online Trading Platform To Sell Off Bad Loans In an attempt to improve price discovery and market liquidity, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) is looking at the possibility of an online trading platform to sell bad loans. In a recent report, Media Company LiveMint quoted V.G. Kannan, Chief Executive of IBA, as saying, “We will prepare a discussion paper as well as consult […]
- Adoption Of Electric Vehicles Could Help India Save $300 Bn: Report Although the adoption of electric vehicles in India has been slow, due to many challenges and setbacks, the market represents a tremendous economic opportunity, a FICCI and Rocky Mountain Institute report titled ‘Enabling India’s Transition to Electric Mobility’ (Cached) highlighted recently. Released by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari at a conference […]
- FICCI Looks To Promote ATA Carnet Among Startups and SMEs; Launches Insurance Policy The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has launched ATA Carnet insurance policy for startups and SMEs. The policy is aimed to facilitate insurance cover for startups and SMEs. This policy will be in lieu of cash deposit or bank guarantee against the issuance of ATA Carnets. Speaking at the launch, G. […]
- DHL India Will Invest $100 Mn To Expand Warehouse Capacity Logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL Group is planning to expand its warehouse capacity in India. The move may have been triggered by DHL India looking at the new planned national tax system and increasing ecommerce transactions. Vikas Anand, Managing Director at DHL Supply Chain India said, “We see business-to-consumer as the next big challenge, a big […]
- Switching From Offline To Online: The $26 Bn B2C Ecommerce Market In India And Policies To Empower It With ecommerce changing every facet of the world, the B2C ecommerce market has not been left behind, as per the latest report released by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry-Confederation of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (FICCI-CMSME), in association with eBay India. The B2C ecommerce market […]
- DST – Lockheed Martin – Tata Trusts Invite Startups For IIGP 2.0 Challenge The India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) is one of the longest standing public-private partnerships to foster innovation led entrepreneurship in the country. It was launched in 2007, and has had tremendous success with the support of the Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) in partnership with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Post the […]
- Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [26 December – 31 December] On the last day of 2016, it is fitting that we once again present news of the fundings and acquisitions that have taken place over the last week. Hyperlocal saw a pickup in the sector with delivery startup Shadowfax picking up $10 Mn in Series B funding. Existing investor Eight Roads Ventures, the investment arm […]
- FICCI Launches Travel Tech Launchpad; Aims To Promote Digitisation In Travel And Tourism The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has launched its first initiative towards promoting the digital drive in the Indian travel and tourism industry. As a part of its mandate, FICCI has launched a ‘Travel Tech Launchpad’ that aims to boost innovation and growth of travel startups during the second edition of […]