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Natural diamonds, real change: Driving sustainable impact in IndiaThe diamond industry is prioritizing sustainability, with India leading the charge by integrating a fifth 'C' – conscience – alongside trad...- India has emerged as an innovation hub, but next wave will come from Bharat: Shivaji Dhawad, InFED-IIM NagpurIndia’s start-up story is no longer confined to metro cities or elite campuses, and the real shift is happening in tier II and tier III tow...
- Over 50% of India’s artisans are women, but only 22% of MSMEs are women-owned: Economic Survey 2025The Economic Survey 2024-25 highlighted the huge gap between women’s employment and entrepreneurship in India and raised the issue of creat...
- MP govt developing homestays in India's first craft handloom village PranpurPranpur, Madhya Pradesh's first craft handloom village, is preparing for more tourists by developing homestays. Two will be ready by Novemb...
- MSMEs are like mitochondria power engines which are boosting West Bengal’s economy, says Shashi Panja, Minister of Industries, West BengalWest Bengal has close to 90 lakh MSME enterprises, many of them single-person enterprises, and they employ over 1 crore people.
- HDFC Bank's strong Q2 loan growth tells the story of India's revival amid rising ratesA strong credit growth in the second quarter shows that the economy is on the mend and consumers are not holding back amid higher inflation...
- Going Rurban: Will villages be relieved of 64% rural population & become the rich 'countryside'?What can and must be done by 2047 is focusing on rurban (rural-urban) development, meaning the creation and sustenance of a cluster of vill...
- MSME focussed startup Lal10 raises $5.5 million in funding led by Yuj Ventures, othersLal10 will use the funds to expand in the global markets across the US, Japan and Middle East. It also aims to grow its tech-based supply c...
- Meghalaya to set up Rs 125 crore fund to aid entrepreneursSangma attended the PRIME Entrepreneurship Awards with officials of MBMA, North East Small Finance Bank, SBI, entrepreneurs and artisans of...
- Artisans and weavers around the country face economic catastropheLakhs of artisans across the country are having to deal with massive order cancellation and also a pile up of raw material.
- Farm-to-fashion: How Bengaluru is championing the cause of zero-waste designDesigners are opening dedicated boutique spaces and curating sustainable trunk shows.
- How a group of entrepreneurs plans to make Jaipur the design capital of IndiaJaipur Rugs showed its Anthar rug made by three weavers who had not been given any pattern - it starts out unaligned at the bottom and beco...
- Mamata Banerjee promotes three-day world folk music festival in KolkataFolk artists from Sweden, Czech Republic, Russia and Denmark will take part in cultural exchange workshops during the festival.
- UNESCO recognises sitalpati or cool mat from Cooch Behar district as 'intangible cultural heritage'The mats are made up of weaved green cane slips of murta plants which are indigenous to the region.
- West Bengal government all set to develop export startegy for MSME sectorThe government has already signed a memorandum of understanding with the Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank).
- West Bengal rural craft hubs help artisans double their incomesThe average monthly income of artisans from Paschim Medinipur, which is famous for Patachitra, stood at Rs 10,000 against Rs 4,000 in 2014.
- Now, Mamata Banerjee unveils a startup policy to boost state's own entrepreneursThe policy, a document with eight broad pointers comes complete with a preamble, a vision, the state's mission, the enabling environment fo...
- Mamata congratulates Rural Craft Hub of Bengal for UNESCO's invitation to ParisWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated the Rural Craft Hub of Bengal for being invited by the UNESCO at a special event i...
- UP Elections 2012: The Islamic fine print on weavers that Rahul missedMore than 2.5 lakh weavers - mostly Muslims - have become a key constituency with political parties aggressively reaching out to them ahead...
- BSFgears up to empower rural womenDeveloping business models to bring in a low cost economic revolution in the handicraft sector in the state, as well as empower rural women...
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