India turns talent backyard for Southeast Asian taxi apps to fight Uber.
Corporates understand that the PMO drives all key decisions in this government.
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
Close to 9,000 start-ups are currently banking with HDFC Bank and it has the bank now dedicated SmartUp zones in 70 branches in 30 cities across India.
Referring to the government's Make in India initiative, he said India has become a hub of mobile phone manufacturing, which has provided employment to 4-5 lakh youth in the last four years and has helped the country save Rs 3 lakh crore foreign exchange.
'At the heart of the strategic relationship between our countries are economic ties.'
'Make in India'presents a huge opportunity for jobs.
Loss of investor confidence in Flipkart last year sparked off a chain reaction in startup sector
India is witnessing its own tech tsunami, and is poised to become the second largest global startup hub by the end of the decade
Kolkata excels in business performance with employee headcount and number of engineering students doubling in the last five years.
The number of forms to be filled to operate drones in the country have been reduced to six in draft 'Drone Rules, 2021' in comparison to 25 forms mentioned in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021, it said.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Facebook is fast learning the limits of tech exceptionalism.
He said the global toy industry is over Rs 7 lakh crore but India's share is very small, as he stressed on the need to work to increase it.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc has tied up with Taiwan's Foxconn to start assembling phones in India.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents her fourth Budget in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The corporate income tax breaks make up a relatively small part of $80 billion in business giveaways.
Four states - Karantaka, Kerala, Odisha and Rajasthan - were in the top performers' category.
The author meets the brains behind Unocoin, the first Indian Bitcoin exchange and merchant processor in India to have raised international funding.
Ex-AAP strategist Shefali Misra to join Uber as head of public policy
With a team of 20-odd people, Snafu tries to unearth the rough diamonds from millions of songs. Can AI help look for a needle in a haystack? Ritwik Sharma finds out.
'If one can write 100-150 lines of good code in a day, they will always be in demand,' advises Jitendra Singh, chief technology officer, TalentSprint, an edtech platform.
Bengaluru has been ranked among top 20 technology-rich cities in the world in a survey done by Jones Lang LaSalle.
Modi, who arrived on the first leg of his three-nation tour, said his brief visit will further strengthen relations between India and Portugal.
With all the brouhaha over GST, and (often) a limited understanding of the long-term forces shaping India's logistics sector, companies seem to have omitted factoring in some underlying trends that could shape supply chain excellence, says Neelesh Mundra.
The Bangladeshi prime minister said that India's sudden decision to stop onion exports has led to a bit of difficulty for her countrymen.
The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market.
While Indian IT has known what is coming and has a strategy ready to combat it, the same can't be said about the country and the government.
He will visit the campuses of iconic Tesla, Facebook and Google
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
Make The World Wonderful, an NGO founded by Meghana Dabbara in 2015, is on a mission to set up 2,500 child adoption programme centres by 2023.
Their bootstrapped brand sold 25,000 units on Flipkart in five days during the 2017 festive sale.
Chairman of Manipal Global Education Services says that the government often forgets that its prime duty is to serve the people and not some sick public sector units.
'Some of these companies are India focused, some are overseas focused and some companies are focused on both.' Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
'Prices are rock, bottom, developers are ready to negotiate and banks are keen to lend.'
'It should be considered one of the primary cuisines on Earth,' Zorawar Kalra tells Avantika Bhuyan.
Ivanka spoke for a good 15 minutes, gracefully, looking straight at her audience, her face wreathed often in winning smiles. She is an articulate, striking, woman who charmed her audience.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
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