Around 12,000 to 13,000 deliveries are recorded in Bhiwandi town in a year, of which 3,000 to 4,000 are non- institutional, the civic body'...

Customers can discover products from micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses at great discounts.

“Earlier I used to work for Rs 15K/mth as craftsman of leather jackets. Now I earn Rs 15L/mth by selling jackets to mkts like US, UK, Canad...

Sayed said he started selling jackets under Candid Leather brand name just a year ago and now he owns a two-bedroom house in Thane.

A motley group of 52 HNIs — successful businessmen, entrepreneurs and some retired executives — stopped by in Mumbai last week as part of t...

The main focus of the project is to discover fresh talent from Dharavi, nurture it through the programme and showcase it on a domestic and ...

Beginning with the pilot project in the slums of Bangalore, these entrepreneurs are expanding it to other parts of the country as well.

To go one up on archrival Flipkart, Snapdeal - one of the country's largest e-tailers - plans to tap 50 lakh low-income households in slums...

A British corporate professional Jillian Haslam returns to her roots to set up an organisation to transform the lives of the destitute in t...

A Bangalore-based career analytics start-up has received a Rs 5 lakh grant for a unique business plan competition.

New Delhi School dropout, child bride, slum dweller, suicide survivor, businesswoman, prominent face of dalit enterprise.

The select individuals with minimal or no education will have access to new economic opportunities and chisel their entrepreneur skills.

Termed 'beds in sheds', the slum-like living conditions are rented out for extortionate rents by ruthless landlords, many of them reported ...

The fund, which hopes to provide a ‘clean break’ from other microfinance funds, will cap interest at 12%, and interest earnings will be plo...

Shanti is asking its donors to provide both money, skills and time. Soft launched in Ahmedabad a couple of months ago, and has disbursed ab...

Chidambaram said the movie's story should inspire banks to grant loans to enterprising entrepreneurs from the slums. Slumdog Millionaire | ...

The Maharashtra government’s plan to change the face of Asia’s largest slum is awaiting a final clearance from chief minister Vilasrao Desh...