Education topped the table with nearly $1.755 billion as against $379 million last year, followed by real estate which received $754 million.
Marquee recruiters made premium offers, with consulting leading the pack by making 25.04% of the offers, followed by IT/ITeS (18.59%), e-commerce (10.55%) and BFSI (10.13%).
Day 1 saw Microsoft make the highest number of offers while Intel emerged as one of the top recruiters on Day 2.
Paytm, which recently hived off its e-commerce and payments bank businesses into separate companies, would use these fresh funds to bolster the two businesses
The data shows the average room rate of two-star hotels increased by 8.5 per cent in FY18, even though it lagged on occupancy at 61.8 per cent, down 1.4 per cent year-on-year
Others in the top 10 include Uday Kotak at the 6th place with a wealth of Rs 94,100 crore, Cyrus S Poonawalla at 7th position with Rs 88,800 crore assets, Cyrus Pallonji Mistry at 8th spot with a wealth of Rs 76,800 crore, Shapoor Pallonji at 9th position with a net worth of Rs 76,800 crore and Dilip Shanghvi at 10th slot with Rs 71,500-crore wealth.
'Consumers are willing to increase travel spends by 20-30 per cent versus pre-pandemic.'
After years of being sequestered by the pandemic, some intrepid travellers are planning to settle their score with the novel coronavirus. With fewer or no travel curbs, they are eager to get back on the road, again. Hotels and tour operators, too, are eager to shed excess Covid baggage. And this year's Diwali promises to add that extra layer sparkle with the introduction of new flights.
Leading hotels are taking all precautions but the unusual service the staff has been pressed into puts them at the forefront of COVID fight.
Arora will resign less than two years since he joined the Japanese Internet conglomerate
Nikesh Arora is one of the highest-paid business leaders globally.
The Forbes 5th annual '30 Under 30' list features 600 women and men.
SoftBank's investments in the past two years include $627 million in online-retailing marketplace Snapdeal and leading a $210 million funding round in taxi-hailing app Ola Cabs.
Apply the 'insurgent' tests on what Ambani, Ramdev and Agarwal have done of late, and you will start seeing the similarities rather than obvious differences of industry, upbringing or social station, says Shailesh Dobhal.
PM app downloaded 2.5 million times, to see 20-fold growth in user base
As regular promotional discounts and offers rolled out by well-funded apps determine the demand trend, online hospitality aggregators face growing discontent from restaurants and hotels over commissions and pricing power.
In about a year, top e-commerce companies are expected to raise as much funds as the three sector leaders raised in about five years.
Exercise. Check e-mails. Wake up to a cup of tea.
These days, one frequently hears of consolidation, rollback and even closure from the start-up world.
Start-ups are changing the way people take vacations.
'GST will bring in much needed transparency and higher investments in the coming years and we hope that a few percentage points to India's GDP.'
After raising $2.5 billion from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and his Vision Fund, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are back in the driving seat at Flipkart, the company they founded over a decade ago.
India's first true e-commerce marketplace is struggling for its survival and in it lies valuable lessons for pure play aggregators, say experts.
Education, jobs, health and more: Experts share their wishlist.
Fewer e-commerce companies hired candidates from B-schools this year.
'Shape up or ship out' message has been loud and clear across the new-age companies in the stressed market conditions
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
The renovations at the old hotels will be complete in two and a half years and tariffs will range between Rs 2,500 and Rs 4,000
As an entrepreneur the most important quality you have to have is that all consuming passion to become an entrepreneur.
An overriding ambition to rule the domestic skies prevented Jet Airways from becoming a strong and formidable player in the international market. The Sahara buy added to the complexity of its operations and a dilution of what the airline stood for, says Anjuli Bhargava.
The Tata group-owned budget hotel chain is going back to drawing board to reboot the brand. Is it too late?
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
The company brings its global campaign to India, looks for trust and a way to grow its business in the country
India'sstartups have a good beginning but will they survive competition is a big questions which needs immediate attention.
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