The company did not disclose the valuations at which funds were raised.
A draft policy will be issued for public consultation in the coming weeks.
Once a beggar, Renuka Aradhya's company has a turnover of Rs 30 crore and employs 150 people.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
Reshma Qureshi's face was destroyed by acid. It did not stop her.
Just when everything seemed picture perfect for brown faces on American television, Showtime reverts to form with its new series Billions. Aseem Chhabra points out how popular media still hasn't gained enough distance from accents and towel-turban fixations.
Recently, e-commerce firms have been under the lens for tax violation.
Uber, Puma, Nissan, Britannia have already lined up for the upcoming parade of cricketing nations, looking to align with the game and its legion of fans
The government's decision to stop surge pricing by app-based taxi companies Uber and Ola ignores the basic principles of economics to appease a vocal section of the vote bank.
In India, it is fighting a pitched battle against Ola.
Karan Choudhury asks Uber India president Amit Jain what the company's global problems mean for its India operations.
The two new markets are overwhelmingly dominated by US ride-hailing giant Uber, which has been able to edge out local start-ups
The 25-year-old woman executive, allegedly raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, on Sunday said she is suffering mentally every day and lashed out at the web-based United States taxi firm for "insult to her injury", saying it has only made cosmetic changes to its policies to operate in India.
Somebody should ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump their views on tipping, says Kishore Singh.
'He represented the warmth, gentleness and goodness that existed in Hindi cinema before Bollywood became a loud commodity.' Aseem Chhabra on the legendary actor he admired for over 40 years.
'I came to this country from India 20 years ago to create a better life for my family. I am a father of four and a proud American citizen. I am also what America looks like.'
Silicon Valley is at the heart of the transformation of the global economy -- which has both winners and losers, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Civil rights activist Deepa Iyer, former executive director, South Asian Americans Leading Together, a social justice organisation thought after a visit to the minority businesses hit in recent weeks that the tragic story in Ferguson, Missouri, offers Indian Americans an opportunity to stand up and decry police brutality and show sympathy and support for African Americans in the beleaguered city
'Maharashtra has 34,000 active cases, of which 24,000 are asymptomatic, and hence need no medicines but are under quarantine.' '9,500 cases are showing mild to severe symptoms.' 'While 1,200 are seriously ill, only 200 of them are on ventilator support.' 'Let those claiming that the situation in the state has gone out of control, look at these numbers objectively before damaging the state's reputation for political gains.'
The new feature is up and running in Nagpur, Guwahati and Jodhpur
Despite Uber facing a ban across many states, including Karnataka and Maharashtra, for Lingaraju, a driver employed by the company in Bengaluru, it is business as usual.
The family of the teenage girl, who was killed after being molested and thrown off a moving bus belonging to the ruling Badal family in Punjab, has refused to cremate her till the administration fulfils their demands for compensation and cancellation of the transport firm's permit.
'If Murad's Mozziness doesn't strike us in the eye, if we see the film as a youth's struggle to break free of the shackles holding him back and not as a Muslim fighting the system, it is because not once in the film does Zoya show him blaming his religion for his low social status or struggle, a temptation many 'progressive' film-makers may have yielded to for it sounds so politically correct,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
The opposition has been critical of the Centre's handling of the situation, accusing it of not doing enough to ease the hardships of the migrant workers, many of whom have lost their jobs during the lockdown which started on March 25.
Photos from the Wimbledon matches on Day 1
Ahluwalia is not a great fan of the Uber model.
Pad was a moniker for the Premier Padmini, which became the jewel in the crown of the Mumbai-based Walchand Hirachand Group.
'No cash,no problem,' says Aparna Verma who has survived without cash from the time PM Modi announced the 'note ban'.
Badri's Aadama Jeichomada is a satirical take on the rampant spot-fixing in the IPL matches.
Yet actress Pari Singh does it because it is a story that must be told. Again and again.
There is nothing India-like about Sikkim and nothing Sikkimese about, well, large parts of India.
'The top level will be development and then sab ka saath, sab ka vikas.' 'But at the street level, the tongue will be vicious.'
In the next few days, use credit/debit cards wherever possible or download your bank's mobile banking app or a mobile wallet.
It's been 100 years since Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the government, and its legacy remains visible even today in the buildings and monuments scattered throughout St Petersburg.
In the 25 odd days that he has appeared before CBI Special Judge Jayendra Chandrasen Jagdale, you have experienced the entire range of emotions just observing him. Everything from pity to irritation. To bafflement. And shock. You have scoured his face, gazed into his eyes, watched his expressions and body language, searching vigilantly for motives. And come away no wiser. Who is Shyamvar Rai? Does anybody know?
Estimates suggest about $100 million has been poured into these companies and a lot more is still to come.
Vijay Mallya, who faces prosecution in India, is reportedly in London.
Satyajit Ray. Films from Italy, Iceland and Albania feature on Aseem Chhabra's list.
Uber valued at $53 billion, is looking at more than 50 per cent market share in India by the first quarter of 2016.
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