Out of the 214 Young Global Leaders who were honoured for leadership and service to society, 109 are women.
Defending champions Mumbai got their Ranji Trophy campaign back on track with an emphatic nine-wicket win over Maharashtra in their second group A league game in Mumbai on Monday, offsetting the heavy loss to Baroda in the opening game.
Also on Flipkart's to-do list is getting people from the Silicon Valley on its rolls.
Flipkart, Jabong-Myntra and PhonePe will operate under this group structure and their CEOs will report to Binny
In the past eight months, Flipkart has seen the exits of Mukesh Bansal, considered the right hand man of Sachin and Binny Bansal; Ankit Nagori, chief business officer; Punit Soni, Flipkart's million-dollar hire from Silicon Valley who headed product and strategy; and Manish Maheshwari, head of the seller business
Flipkart, the poster boy of Indian e-commerce, hit a new high by raising $1 billion (about Rs 6,000 crore) in the latest funding round, led by existing investors Tiger Global Management and Naspers.
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.
If Sachin Bansal sells his stake at a little over 5 per cent and steps down from Flipkart, as reports have suggested recently, either Binny Bansal or Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart, could be an option for the leadership position.
Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal takes over as marketing chief.
Walmart is likely to buy stakes of multiple Flipkart investors, including that of Tiger Global Management and Softbank to end up with a significant majority holding
Every competitor is eyeing the top slot that Flipkart holds.
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.
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.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
A 2014 study had ranked IITs as fourth among the top 50 universities globally, whose graduates were entrepreneurial.
The two companies have been negotiating to remain separate entities after a merger.
Prominent print advertisements on Monday pitched Amazon's discount strategy against Flipkart's.
Ola was supposed to expand to the Netherlands, Kenya, Dubai, Israel, and Brazil.
Sources said the fresh batch of profiles include students whose date of joining has been delayed by Flipkart.
For the traditionalists, wars on Twitter and Facebook smack of immaturity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the policy last month.
'Rahul Gandhi is going to turn 54 and in India political leaders peak when they are around 60.' 'This 'bhai-behen ki jodi' has done a wonderful job for the Congress.' 'Priyanka Gandhi was a very effective campaigner.'
The company did not disclose its new holding pattern.
The start-up, which has invested $100 million over the past eight years, sells 50 million products.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
Internet entrepreneurs are the next big thing in India.
This is the sixth consecutive markdown in the valuation of Flipkart by the US firm.
From a modest two-bedroom apartment in Koramangala, the Bengaluru-headquarted company now has multiple offices across the country.
Last year, traffic jumped 15 times on Snapdeal's 'Big Sale Day' on Oct 6, when it had clocked Rs 1 crore a minute of sales over 10 hours.
It all started with Flipkart and Amazon trying to outdo each other - after Flipkart announced $1-billion fund-raising in July.
Flipkart intends to use the funds for building and strengthening its technology capabilities, bolstering the robust supply chain and developing the talent pool.
As Indians scrambled to exchange the banned notes for new currency, Paytm, Sharma's digital payments startup, went on a promotional spree, inviting Indians to start using Paytm's digital wallet to pay for everyday goods and services.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and industrialist Mukesh Ambani feature amongst the most searched personalities online this year, according to search engine Yahoo.
Flipkart's co-founders Sachin and Binni Bansal made their debut at 86th position with a net worth of $1.3 billion each.
Narayanan said while there would be some redundancies as a result of integration of the back-end functions of Myntra and Jabong, it will, however, be less than 10 per cent of the overall headcount
While 39 members of the all-important panel are general members, it has 32 permanent invitees, including some in-charges of state and 13 special invitees.
'Big Billion Day' scheduled for October 6 is inspired by flat number where co-founders began their journey.
India is the next major breeding ground for start-ups.
This is the sixth mark down for the largest e-commerce marketplace of the country in as many months.
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