Cleartrip sees 50% more bookings during summer holidays

Holidays and festive seasons are witnessing 50 per cent more bookings for flights and hotels than the normal days through Cleartrip, a top company official said today.
The surge in mobile bookings was happening during summer holidays, where people prefer cool destinations, hotels and also flights for short trips, Cleartrip Chief Marketing Officer, Subramanya Sharma, told reporters.
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Care24 receives seed funding of Rs 2.27 crore * Mumbai-based home healthcare platform Care24 today received seed funding of USD 350,000 (about Rs 2.27 crore) from India Quotient.
The company will use the funds to enhance its technology, strengthen team, standardise care and quality assurance, it said in a statement.

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Amazon India to sell more jewellery brands on its platform * Buoyed by high demand for precious jewellery online, leading e-tailer Amazon.In would bring more brands on its platform by invitation, a top company official has said.
"We launched the jewellery section of the fashion store in December, 2014. We got a tremendous response and the growth till September this year was 300 per cent, although selling fashion jewellery online is still at a nascent stage in India", Mayank Shivam, category leader of Amazon Fashion India, said.
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NCDEX brings Reliance Capital on its panel as COMTRACK pledge * Leading commodity exchange NCDEX today said it has brought Reliance Financial, a subsidiary of Reliance Capital, on its panel as COMTRACK pledge.

Under the agreement between the Exchange and the financial institutions, customers desirous of availing financial assistance can deposit their goods in Exchange approved warehouses and the banks providing pledge finance will provide loans using the deposited goods as collateral.