Shariq Khan

Journalist, ET

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• Banks, NBFCs or maybe fintechs. Who is in a better position to plug the $240 billion credit gap for MSMEs?

  
  13 mins read23 Feb 2021
• Need to do more: Bid to resolve Rs 5-lakh crore pain point for MSMEs sees tardy progress

  
  9 mins read11 Feb 2021
• Budget 2021: FM races to fix flaws in labour model

  
  05 Feb 2021 08:59 AM IST
• FM doubles budgetary allocation for MSMEs, but one scheme gets the king's share

  
  04 Feb 2021 09:02 AM IST
• Budget 2021: Exporters like Infra push, but fret about funding for schemes

  
  02 Feb 2021 08:48 AM IST
• Budget 2021: 400 old duty exemptions to get a rejig, duties cut on many items to help MSMEs

  
  01 Feb 2021 03:54 PM IST
• TReDs was touted as the tool to tackle delayed payments to MSMEs. Did it succeed?

  
  10 mins read29 Jan 2021
• Plastics, petrochemicals should be included in the PLI scheme: Arvind Goenka, Chairman, Plexconcil

  
  25 Jan 2021 09:45 AM IST
• Eight months after its roll out, Government's Rs 3-lakh crore ECLG scheme helped some, bypassed other

  
  9 mins read20 Jan 2021
• Post-Covid, here is why policymakers need to take a hard look at the future of work(ers)

  
  8 mins read7 Jan 2021
• With an eye on vaccines, logistics sector preps to go full throttle in 2021

  
  29 Dec 2020 09:53 AM IST
• Can gain much more than what we lost in 2020: Export community pins hope on 2021 for a revival

  
  28 Dec 2020 10:29 AM IST
• Pack it, ship it: Covid and surge of online shopping amps up an entire sector

  
  10 mins read22 Dec 2020
• Jio and Facebook to accelerate India’s $5 trillion economy push: Mukesh Ambani

  
  15 Dec 2020 01:36 PM IST
• Factory workers are returning, to labour and an uncertain life

  
  14 mins read15 Dec 2020
• Confident India will emerge as the top manufacturing hub for EVs: Nitin Gadkari

  
  08 Dec 2020 08:03 PM IST
• Multilateralism in crisis: Can the world live without WTO?

  
  14 mins read26 Nov 2020
• Did the Government’s Rs 3 lakh crore collateral-free loan ECLG scheme do enough to prop up the MSME sector?

  
  8 mins read4 Nov 2020
• ETRise Top MSMEs Ranking: This Gujarat-based motor manufacturer is betting on robotics, solar pumps and electric vehicles for growth

  
  30 Oct 2020 12:03 PM IST
• Cobot: The effective factory worker in the post-pandemic era

  
  13 mins read29 Oct 2020
• ETRise Top MSMEs Ranking: REConnect Energy is using AI and automation to transform energy markets

  
  27 Oct 2020 10:51 AM IST
• The fault in our approach: India’s self-reliant push fails to recognize cottage industry as critical constituent

  
  13 mins read23 Oct 2020
• As the world goes ABC (anything-but-China), India amps up its electronic manufacturing

  
  12 mins read16 Oct 2020
• Industry hails PLI scheme, bats for an MSME targeted plan

  
  08 Oct 2020 11:54 AM IST
• Fail to scale: India’s manufacturing aspiration confronts the ‘missing middle’

  
  11 mins read8 Oct 2020
• Battered by lockdown, how small businesses used the world’s largest messaging platform to bounce back

  
  11 mins read4 Oct 2020
• Patchy recovery means surviving beyond this fiscal will be a big problem for many small businesses

  
  8 mins read25 Sep 2020
• Zomato’s secret growth engine: A farm-to-fork business unit

  
  6 mins read25 Aug 2020
• Businesses feel the need to be near customers as pandemic upends a $160 billion sector

  
  10 mins read19 Aug 2020
• Biggest India opportunity lies at the bottom of the pyramid: Google’s Karan Bajwa

  
  10 Aug 2020 10:38 AM IST
• RBI’s move to restructure MSME loans step in the right direction, but does not go far enough

  
  7 mins read7 Aug 2020
• Innovation to hold the key to India’s future growth: Piyush Goyal

  
  04 Aug 2020 07:05 PM IST
• The world's 6.5 billion people make a lucrative market, but reaching them is a task

  
  12 mins read23 Jul 2020
• 'Discouraging attitude' of banks’ risks providing little relief to MSMEs under a key Government scheme

  
  13 mins read15 Jul 2020
• Trade shows play a vital role in expanding our exports. What do you do when you can’t go to one?

  
  8 mins read7 Jul 2020
• For two-thirds of the jobs worldwide, economic recovery from Covid-19 will be ‘U’ shaped: UNCTAD

  
  13 mins read3 Jul 2020
• The big owe: How do you fix Rs 5-lakh crore in dues? Strengthen TReDS

  
  11 mins read30 Jun 2020
• Private banks will catch up with PSBs in disbursing collateral-free loans to MSMEs: Uday Kotak

  
  29 Jun 2020 09:56 AM IST
• A blanket ban on Chinese goods not in the best interest of India, calibrated, well-thought-out strategy needed: FIEO

  
  25 Jun 2020 06:22 PM IST
• Tanneries in tatters: Country’s leather sector on the verge of collapse

  
  18 Jun 2020 11:36 AM IST
• Pushing for clearance of dues to MSMEs within 45 days: Nitin Gadkari

  
  21 May 2020 10:21 AM IST
• For Covid-19 battered auto dealers, the worst may be yet to come

  
  20 May 2020 11:09 AM IST
• SAFE and SMILE, two SIDBI schemes that can help you raise money during Covid-19

  
  12 May 2020 11:26 AM IST
• A relief package for MSME sector soon; virus crisis blessing in disguise: Nitin Gadkari

  
  04 May 2020 11:17 AM IST
• Reeling from Covid-19 lockdown, factories are ready to gradually restart. But where are the workers?

  
  04 May 2020 10:15 AM IST
• No relief here: On the front lines of COVID-19 fight, trucking community continues to be in a limbo

  
  27 Apr 2020 11:15 AM IST