Ministries assess skill needs to impart focused trainingThe ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship collaborates with five central ministries to fulfill their scheme-specific demand fo...
02 Jan, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
Formation of new companies soars in FY21, with a Covid bentSectors whose business found salience during the lockdown, such as health & social work, agriculture, education, wholesale trade, retail tr...
26 Jun, 2021, 07.54 AM IST
JD-U releases vision document Saat Nischay ahead of Bihar pollsThe ruling party has emphasised through 'Saat Nischay' (Part II) its focus on students, their education from primary to higher levels, foll...
11 Oct, 2020, 03.43 PM IST
Private players welcome to help bring technology to sanitation sector, says NITI Aayog CEO"Government acknowledges the private sector as a key stakeholder in this sector. Private sector is brimming with entrepreneurial activities...
03 Oct, 2020, 11.20 PM IST
Twelve entrepreneurs emerge winners in NBEC 2019NBEC, organised by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), nationwide platform for bio-entrepreneurs across India to show...
15 Dec, 2019, 12.09 PM IST
BIRAC, IAN come together to launch biotech-focused angel funding networkThe platform will facilitate the expansion of BIRAC’s empowering policies, mentoring, and market access to biotech innovators across India ...
23 Nov, 2019, 02.56 PM IST
Screwvala’s Swades Foundation gets Tata Trust to work on water and sanitation problemsSwades has roped in Tata Trust, with both parties looking to pump in Rs 130 crore to solve water and sanitation problems, besides skill dev...
09 Dec, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
Need for facilitating rural entrepreneurship: Minister Birender SinghUnion Minister Birender Singh stressed that rural transformation can be possible only through economic empowerment of villages by "rural en...
17 Oct, 2015, 06.42 PM IST
Tata Trusts supports microcredit initiative to fight povertyTata Trusts said it has extended its support for a period of four years to Rang De an internet-driven micro-lending platform, to fight pove...
24 Sep, 2015, 06.07 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan doubles toilet cleaner salesThe toilet cleaners segment, which was growing at 3-6% in the past few years, has seen a sudden surge of 10-12% growth in quarterly sales.
17 Sep, 2015, 10.50 AM IST
Innovation, entrepreneurship can eradicate poverty: Nitin GadkariAbout 2,000 small industries are being set up in Vidarbha region to provide employment to farmers, he said, emphasising on the need to prom...
09 Apr, 2015, 04.32 PM IST
Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu seeks industry inputs on 'smart village/smart ward' projectAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today asked industries to contribute to the state government's flagship 'Smart Village/Sm...
24 Feb, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
Electronic toll system can help save Rs 86,000 crore annually: Nitin Gadkari"ETC systems have already been installed at 123 plazas while by December-end it would be functional across 350 toll plazas," Gadkari said.
25 Nov, 2014, 04.17 PM IST
Rajiv Pratap Rudy and two other union ministers from Bihar felicitatedUnion ministers Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Giriraj Singh and Ram Kripal Yadav were feted today by the state unit BJP upon their maiden visit to Bih...
14 Nov, 2014, 06.16 PM IST
Hillary Clinton praises Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focus on sanitationHillary met Narendra Modi in New York last month when the Prime Minister visited the US to attend the annual session of the UN General Asse...
31 Oct, 2014, 04.07 AM IST
How to effectively use the Rs 10,000 crore alloted for entrepreneurshipThe allocation of these funds must skew towards sectors that are either of national importance, or have a disproportionate job-creation imp...
24 Oct, 2014, 10.58 AM IST
Be innovative to ensure India's rapid growth: Manmohan SinghPrime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked bureaucrats to be innovative and enterprising in order to ensure the country's rapid growth.
21 Apr, 2013, 04.19 PM IST