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Adapt & grow: How India's unicorn boom will impact B-school education

What will happen if the hopes of 75 more unicorns in 2022 actually come true?

States perfect their start-up pitch

The Delhi government is also rushing to prepare a start-up policy to promote new-age businesses

Meta to skill 10 mn small businesses, 250,000 creators over three years

Its CFINE office in Delhi-NCR will be open to anyone who is driving change - creators, small business owners, entrepreneurs, artists or community leaders

Covid enhanced diversity, inclusion initiatives of businesses: Intel study

Indian business leaders are confident in their trajectory to achieving DE&I goals

Cloud over conglomerates

A related problem in conglomerates is a complex web of crossholdings of shares among subsidiary and associate companies

As businesses set up online modes, cash flows become less prone to turmoil

Non-banking financial companies have been also reworking their collection process since the onset of the pandemic by increasingly adopting electronic modes

Business activity back to pre-second wave levels of March 2021: Report

Business activity has climbed back to the pre-second wave levels with the seventh consecutive week of surge in levels as new coronavirus infection cases decrease, a Japanese brokerage said on Monday.

On his 5-day US visit, Jaishankar meets business leaders in Washington

The US business leaders highlighted their ongoing support to assist Covid-19 relief efforts in India, vaccine access and further ways to build healthcare infrastructure together

Covid-ravaged Indian cinema's plot falters, will take years to pick up

The pandemic has devastated the film business. It will take years to pick up the pieces. Part 1 of a two-part series

BHEL to procure goods worth Rs 3k crore from small biz annually: Official

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd will procure Rs 3,000 crore of products from small businesses annually as part of the government's efforts to encourage them, a senior official said on Friday.

Progress comes in layers

The 'Silent Transformation of India' is now maturing, creating a fertile ground for growth of new businesses

GST: 6-digit HSN code must in invoices for biz with over Rs 5 cr turnover

In trade parlance, every product is categorised under an HSN code (Harmonised System of Nomenclature). It helps in systematic classification of goods across the globe

By FY2022-end, our business will be twice of pre-Covid levels: Rapido

Bike taxi platform Rapido has seen a strong recovery in its operations over the last few months and is confident of business doubling by the end of March 2022 from pre-COVID levels

Budget to bring in positive change for investors and public: Anurag Thakur

The Union budget will bring in a positive change for investors, businesses and the general public, said Minister of State (MoS) for Finance, Anurag Thakur on Monday."We've focused on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and infrastructure. We are also going to spend big on the healthcare sector. We've allocated around Rs 1.10 lakh crores for roadways and railways each. This Budget will bring in a positive change for investors, businesses and the general public," Thakur told ANI.In a comparison with the previous United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, he said that during UPA rule, crops worth Rs 3.75 lakh crore were procured whereas the NDA government procured crops worth Rs 8 lakh crore.He said the development cess that is introduced in the budget will be used to strengthen basic infrastructure in agriculture.

Businesses hail Karnataka's 24x7 move, but infra and other concerns remain

The state announced the decision to allow all shops and commercial set-ups to run round the clock so that they recover revenue lost on account of Covid-19

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Hong Kong clinics ban fathers during childbirth

Chaos in New South Wales as travelers rush to get out of the state, Big businesses showed resilience in a daunting year and other pandemic-related news around the globe

Covid-19 vaccine to help cold chain market jump 17% to Rs 1.7 trn in CY21

Growth next year comes on the back of robust 16% estimated annual growth over past five years with volume growth in the period pegged at 4.4%

Better link, real-time info sharing help retailers ready for biz resumption

During the lockdown, the retail industry used tools such as virtual town halls connecting all industry and employees

Biz will have 30 days to generate e-voices for B2B sales in Oct: CBIC

Under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) law, companies with turnover of over Rs 500 crore will have to generate e-invoice for B2B transactions from October 1

'Tech intensity' key to business resilience amid Covid-19: Satya Nadella

Nadella said Microsoft is the only company that has a complete technology stack to support both tech adoption and tech capability building