With this round of funding, Flipkart's valuation has reached USD 11.6 billion, and US IT major Microsoft joins the marketplace as a strategic investor.
Government of India Department of Science & Technology announces Boyscast Fellowship 2009-10.
Encouraging younger people to adopt careers in science depends on changing our mindset.
Shravin Mittal's venture capital firm, Unbound Advisors, has made investments worth over $500 million so far
To proceed with a Cabinet proposal to grant the relaxations to RIL, the Election Commission's approval will be sought.
The pandemic has confined students across all ages to home and digital education is the only way to continue learning.
Swiggy had in June entered the elite Unicorn club after raising $210 million from a group of investors
The DST has accepted a proposal of National Association of Software and Service Companies in this regard.
Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology's Boycast Fellowship for the year 2008-09.
'Imagine taking care of a patient who is infected with Covid. A human nurse is unable to do that due to fear of infection. The robot can do that task, while it is controlled or supervised by the human nurse. So the robot becomes an extension of the nurse.'
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The five discoveries -- D4, D7, D8, D16 and D23 - hold 0.805 trillion cubic feet of reserves, or about one-fourth of the restated reserves in the currently producing Dhirubhai-1 and 3 (D1&D3) fields in KG-D6 block, and are worth $10 billion.
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (IIT-KGP) has lined up four courses for rural development this year to facilitate skill development among the rural youth as well as create self-employment opportunities.
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Ola competes with Uber Technologies in India.
Flipkart is in expansion mode, needs to infuse funds in the firm.
Responding to another question, Choubey said that the phase-I of clinical trials have revealed excellent safety of the two candidate vaccines indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research and Cadila Healthcare Ltd, and now their immunogenicity testing is in progress. Their phase II clinical trials are ongoing.
$47.6 bn capital invested across 921 deals in India in 2020, despite pandemic.
The department of science and technology, Confederation of Indian Industry and Intel on Wednesday signed a statement of intent with a view to promote culture of inventions and innovations among students and youth of the country.
The necessary instrumentation will be installed by DOD within two years. The government has already sanctioned Rs 1,250 mn for the purpose.
Yuri Milner is focussing on on consumer-driven Internet start-ups.
The Oil Ministry is seeking Cabinet nod to allow Reliance Industries to retain three gas discoveries worth $1.45 billion in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block even after expiry of timelines.
So Swiggy offered 35,056 varieties of biryani to its users, says Peerzada Abrar.
Russian firms expand their footprint in India. And take bigger steps to do business with India's private sector.
Cab-hailing service Ola is on the fast track on the back of a $500 million funding.
An industry source said the funding was part of an overall $500 million the company is planning to raise, which will value Ola at around $5 billion.
Swiggy is shoring up capital to defend its position as India's largest food-ordering app as rivals Zomato and FoodPanda focus on growth after receiving funds
With razor-sharp focus on deliveries and customer experience, powered by strong in-house technology built ground-up, Swiggy is emerging as the food ordering platform of choice.
The company did not disclose its new holding pattern.
Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."
Xioami, currently the world's third-largest smartphone maker, is now planning to raise about $1.5 billion in its fifth round of financing, media reports said.
With Nikesh Arora's exit from Softbank, India's start-ups have lost one of its biggest supporters.
India is looking at 5G technology as a major opportunity in terms of offering services tailored for rural India like telehealth, tele-education and bandwidth-heavy applications
The Child Protection Services programme under the Integrated Child Development Services was increased to Rs 1,500 crore from Rs 925 crore.
Amazon has emerged a competition for posterboy of Indian e-commerce Flipkart.
App-based taxi aggregator Ola is in talks to raise fresh funding of up to $400 million.
The development comes close on the heels of Uber planning to invest substantial part of $3.5 bn Saudi money in India.
At that time, co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal had made a public announcement at a Bengaluru hotel, about a $1-billion fund raising, largest so far in the Indian e-commerce sector. A day later, Amazon issued a statement that it was investing $2 billion in India.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has approached about a dozen well-known scientists from across the world in an effort to bring them back to various departments under the ministry, said Jitendra Singh, minister of state (independent charge) for science and technology.
Currently the average expected time of arrival for Ola vehicles is five minutes.
Snapdeal had appointed merchant bankers for listing on an American stock exchange
Uber started its business three years ago in India and is now operating in over 20 cities with thousands of cab drivers.
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