Category: Entrepreneurship
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Odisha aims 1000 start-ups in next five years
Bhubaneswar, (IANS) : The Odisha cabinet on Tuesday approved a new Start-up Policy 2016 targeting to set up 1,000 start-ups in next five years. “The policy targets setting up at least 1,000 start-ups in the next five years attracting substantial venture and angel capital to the state with sizable attractive employment opportunity for the educated…
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From Agra to Abu Dhabi: A tale of courage and sheer hard work
By Akanki Sharma, New Delhi, (IANS) : Happiness knew no bounds for 18-year-old Aditya Pratap Singh Rathore and his family when he was named the winner of the IndiaSkills 2016 competition held here last month. Hailing from the city of the Taj, Rathore won the first prize in the “Automobile Technology Skill” category at the…
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Bengaluru host to most tech start-ups, NCR follows: Report
New Delhi, (IANS) : India’s information technology hub Bengaluru is host to the largest number of technology-driven start-ups, followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) and Mumbai while Hyderabad and Chennai have also become quite popular among budding entrepreneurs, a study by industry chamber Assocham said. The study, done in association with the Thought Arbitrage…
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Indian entrepreneur sets up e-commerce portal for Africans
By Francis Kokutse, Accra (Ghana), (IANS) : Online retailing is the future in Africa, says 25-year-old Rahul Kalra, from India’s financial capital Mumbai. Kalra believes that by 2025 e-commerce will be the way most Africans shop for a whole range of products. It comes as no surprise then that Rahul has set up an online…
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Malaysia to host first Malaysian Entrepreneurship Week in October
By Azlina Aziz, Jakarta, Indonesia, (NNN-Bernama) : Malaysia will host the first Malaysian Entrepreneurship Week in Kuala Lumpur this October, as part of its continuing efforts to support entrepreneurship, said Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak here today. The initiative, to be held from Oct 31 to Nov 3, would be a collaboration between the Ministry…
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ONGC to invest Rs 823 cr for CBM gas development
Dehradun, (IANS) : State-run explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and its partners will invest Rs 823 crore to produce coal-bed methane (CBM) gas from Bokaro, Jharkhand, ONGC Chairman Dinesh K. Sarraf said on Sunday. “Investment decisions have been taken by ONGC Board for development of Bokaro CBM Block (BK-CBM-2001/1) at a total project…
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Intel acquires AI start-up run by Indian-origin entrepreneur
San Francisco, (IANS) : Announcing a big foray into the world of artificial intelligence (AI), the chip giant Intel has acquired San Diego, California-based deep learning start-up Nervana Systems run by an Indian-origin entrepreneur. Coming ahead of the Intel Developer Forum next week, the acquisition gives Intel a definitive head start towards advanced data analytics,…
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Rajasthan woos Karnataka’s industrialists, farmers for agri-tech meet
Bengaluru, (IANS) : Seeking technology and investments in farm sector, Rajasthan on Monday invited industrialists and farmers from Karnataka to participate in the Global Rajasthan Agri-tech Meet (GRAM 2016) being held in Jaipur November 9-11. “The objective of the event is to ensure the economic empowerment of the farmers through accelerated growth in agriculture to…