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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicSmall businesses

Topic: small businesses

Bedsheet as beach towels? India-made products find novel uses in global markets, says Amazon

E-commerce giant Amazon’s ‘Exports Digest 2022’ reveals how Indian middle- and small-scale industries are thriving worldwide, thanks to technology.

How GST is killing small businesses with inspector raj and suffocating compliance

GST was supposed to create a unified market. The opposite is happening with small businesses being harassed with invoice and payments.

Overcoming these 3 obstacles in social media marketing will boost your business, says Ahmed Khan

The young social media marketer believes that social media influencers are more interpersonal, more engaging, and communicate with their audiences at a different level.

From Agra to Prayagraj, spike in suicides is the untold story of pandemic business distress

Each morning, the small towns of UP awoke with anxiety about suicides as incidents increased in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-induced lockdowns.

Overhaul regulation of E-marketplaces. Small sellers have stake in platform economy growth too

Vidhi India researchers find that the Indian Competition Act and other legal instruments can fail in their task of building a sustainable e-commerce ecosystem in India.

Facebook launches loans programme for small businesses across 200 cities in India

Partner Indifi will offer credit to firms that advertise on Facebook. The loans will range from Rs 5 to Rs 50 lakh with 17 to 20% interest rates, potentially without collateral.

Financial bailouts must be for struggling businesses to preserve jobs, not repay old debts

The Indian govt & the RBI launched many schemes to ensure availability of credit during Covid, but financial institutions are still cautious about new lending.

Delhi e-rickshaw drivers, vendors turn to selling vegetables as lockdown dries up finances

Non-essential business owners have taken up this less profitable livelihood to survive lockdown. But they fear a disrupted supply chain may affect resumption of businesses.

Covid-19 does not see race, religion, caste before striking, says PM Modi

The coronavirus outbreak has changed the contours of professional life. These days home is the new office and internet is the new meeting room, he added in a post on LinkedIn.

Facebook re-prioritises to adjust to changing user behavior during Covid-19 lockdowns

Facebook is building new features to help users and small businesses to make money despite the prevailing restrictions.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.