India never a better investment destination than today: Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that India was never a more promising investment destination than it is on Monday as his government completes three years in office later this month. The BJP-led NDA government stormed to power in May 2014, winning by a huge majority. Addressing the India-Turkey Business Summit in […]
Don’t write off Indian software yet
Digital India can throw up dramatic opportunities for its software sector. The companies must rise to the challenge Despite the tumultuous happenings all across the world, India’s information technology sector is not condemned to a pedestrian existence henceforth. It has a good chance to return to its earlier stellar status, which is dependent on two […]
ICICI Bank to create 500 more digital villages
New Delhi, May 2 (PTI) ICICI Bank has created 100 digital villages across the country within 100 days and now plans to add 500 more to the list by year-end, its chief Chanda Kochhar said today. The 100-village project, which also included imparting skill training and providing credit linkages to people living there, was taken […]
These Indian CEOs Tell Why Digital Is All The Rage In India
The digital world is fast undergoing major transformations, boosting its viewership and this has become a major cause of concern for TV channel operators. The 2017 Accenture Digital Consumer survey reveals that television viewership in India has plummeted by 78 per cent in the past one year. CEO of India’s leading digital agency iProspect India […]
10,000 Startups Program
10,000 Startups Program Give your start-up the wings that it needs to succeed “10,000 Startups” is a vision, which is committed to incubate, fund and provide ambient support to impact 10,000 technology startups in India, by 2023. The aim is to nurture the hatchling startups into full-fledged technology stalwart companies, by giving them support via […]
Corporates failed to engage startups
It’s time for corporate boards to add “startup engagement” to their CEOs’ job descriptions. CEOs know it’s important to engage with startups, but startlingly few seem to do it themselves. Too often this critical responsibility is shrugged off to other company departments, including innovation, business development, marketing, and PR. This is just not enough. Startup […]
Accelerating Indian startups
Gurgaon-based India Accelerator will soon launch an incubation program and offer early-stage technology startups benefits from its newly-acquired membership of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). The GAN is a consortium of 70 leading accelerators in the world including H-Farm in Italy, NXTP Labs in Argentina, SparkLabs in South Korea and Techstars in the United States. […]
Budget 2017: Small taxpayer gets a break, but little else to cheer about
There’s not a lot that can be said about this budget and I guess that’s not a bad thing. Most people agree on the fact that there’s nothing path breaking in there but neither is there anything disastrous. Having said that, for me the direction of levelling the playing field, or at least giving the […]
Budget 2017: Affordable housing given infra status to encourage investments
To boost slowdown-hit real estate sector, the government on Wednesday announced infrastructure status to affordable housing to encourage investment in this segment and offered tax sops for developers sitting on completed unsold inventories. The National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about Rs 20,000 crore in 2017-18. To promote affordable homes, the government […]
Budget 2017: Govt eyes job opportunities in textiles, tourism and affordable housing
Finance minister Arun Jaitley in his budget has reiterated the government’s commitment to job creation and identified several sectors – textiles, leather, tourism, transportation and affordable housing – that he said will open up employment opportunity. In his speech on Wednesday, Jaitley described “energising youth through education, skills and jobs” as one of the government’s […]