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New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday partnered with hospitality company Airbnb to create livelihood opportunities for women in the northeast region as a step towards their empowerment. The partnership under NCW’s capacity building cell – ...

Mumbai : The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) in collaboration with community-driven online hospitality platform Airbnb on Friday launched a new programme in the state to boost micro-entrepreneurs in the hospitality sector. The programme “Tourism Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme” aims to ...

By Frank Islam, India is blessed to be the third-largest start-up economy in the world. Unfortunately, there is a curse that comes with that blessing. That is, as indicated in a 2016 report issued by the IBM Institute for Business ...

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with thousands of youngsters who have made it big in the startup sector and said it is the youth who have turned out to be the “job creators” of the ...

New Delhi : Three IT majors – Microsoft, Tech Avant-Garde and Efee Online – have come together to help Kashmiri students to make up for their academic losses due to frequent shutdowns and curfews in the insurgency-ravaged state. The three ...

By Milinda Ghosh Roy, Kolkata : With no cutting-edge medical equipment, air-conditioning or critical care unit in place, the under-construction building in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district hardly matches the popular notion of a modern medical care facility. Yet, ...

Kolkata : India’s small farmers and street vendors are exhibiting far more entrepreneurship than the country’s corporate sector, Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, said here on Friday. “Entrepreneurship cannot be taught but skills can be ...

By Simmi Sareen, New Delhi : Scaling up a business is hard work. While launching a start-up and raising initial seed capital is tough, things get more complex once you are past the proof-of-concept stage and are set to scale. ...

Jeddah : Three Saudi startups figure prominently on the Forbes list of 50 startups to watch in the Arab world this year. These startups are those who have not yet received big-ticket funding but are looking promising for the future, ...

Bengaluru : Canadian institutional fund CDPQ on Thursday said it had invested $20 million in Indian venture Fundamentum, promoted by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and Helion founder Sanjeev Agarwal. “La Caisse de depot et placement du Qurbec (CDPQ) joins Fundamentum ...