Providing EV charging infra in India is like doing social service: Magenta PowerThe electric vehicle charging infrastructure is the backbone of electric mobility but given the chicken and egg situation of what should be...
21 Aug, 2021, 09.55 PM IST
UNDP India launches GRID for inclusive developmentIt contains 1,500 solutions, ranging from simple to complex in design, which can be implemented at the community level and these innovative...
27 Nov, 2020, 10.46 PM IST
Panel to review CSR frameworkThe committee will review the Schedule 7 of the Act that defines the activities on which companies have to spend their CSR funds.
29 Sep, 2018, 08.15 AM IST
Meet the woman entrepreneur with a passion for food and designWhen Gitanjali Budhrani isn't busy running her pub in Bengaluru, she takes to designing bags inspired by liquor.
11 Jan, 2017, 02.25 PM IST
How IIT-Delhi is going about creating an ecosystem for women entrepreneursThe spectrum of the businesses being mentored is broad — from organic farming, bee-hiving to tissue reproduction, online marketing to bakin...
27 Nov, 2016, 12.40 PM IST
Dissemination of frugal methods needed for innovative India: Anil K GuptaMentioning one more frugal measure of this kind, Gupta said that it has been shown in studies that cooking in iron vessel is beneficial for...
24 Jul, 2016, 02.12 PM IST
Next breakthrough to come from micro venture innovation finance: Pranab Mukherjee"The Make in India, Clean India, and Inclusive India, under which financial inclusion is of prime essence, needs a significant push," Presi...
08 Mar, 2015, 03.55 PM IST
Electro Magnetic Field emissions do not cause health hazards: Cellular Operators Association of India"India presently has 900 million mobile phone connections and more than 80 per cent of the population has access to mobile telephony," COAI...
09 Oct, 2014, 06.52 PM IST
India’s online retail sector: Racing down the last mileThe final frontier of the battle for top honours in India’s booming online retail sector is being fought on the logistics front.
19 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Social entrepreneurs set up for-profit ventures to sustain non-profit entitiesThe not-for-profit arm carries out its activities as a trust, whereas a private company is set up for carrying out business or profit-based...
27 Nov, 2013, 11.19 AM IST
Treat entrepreneurs as role models, says EDIExperts also said there is need to create pools of risk capital that can back ideas and not just products and services.
20 Nov, 2013, 11.33 AM IST
Higher education: India lags behind China despite English language advantageChina has been consistently scoring over India in higher education for several years, as reflected even in previous rankings.
27 Jul, 2012, 09.36 AM IST
Bee-keeping business: 'Honey' Singh says no one in sight post Budget 2012India's 'Honey' Singh who controls 80% of the export market is unfazed in the wake of new sops given to beekeeping in Budget 2012.
08 Apr, 2012, 12.46 AM IST
Making markets work for the poor: Chit funds are the killer inclusion product, not bank accountsThe task of making markets work for them is to enable their money to stretch and buy them the things that they need.
02 Mar, 2012, 08.59 AM IST
- Slovenia: Ljubljana is a photographer's dream come true
Thanks to its location, at the cusp of several former empires, Slovenia is a delicious mix of many influences, as Pallavi Paul discovered.
07 Apr, 2011, 12.04 AM IST
- Dabur, Emami, Wipro consumer keep mkt buzzing
Till two years back, Gauri Sankar Mahato, a peasant from Nimdhi village near Chaibasa, Jharkhand, was barely subsisting on small crop that ...
16 Feb, 2010, 12.42 AM IST
- Honey bee research project for seven states
National Resource Development Board of Department of Biotechnology has sanctioned a network project "Morphometry and Phylogeography of hone...
16 Mar, 2008, 06.09 PM IST