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TopicStart-ups

Topic: start-ups

The secret to startups like Uber, Airbnb succeeding is in their playbook

Shira Ovide -
Startups such as Uber, Airbnb and Gojek are armed with centralised knowledge as opposed to smaller players who are dependent on fragmented expertise.

In hunt for next big campus start-up, govt wants institutes to allot 1% budget, relax rules

Kritika Sharma -
AICTE’s new start-up policy also wants institutes to allow faculty & staff to mentor and work on such projects, and grant students various exemptions.

How a Newton-apple moment in South Africa led Ashish Hemrajani to start BookMyShow

Sidharth Rao -
In the pre-smartphone era, BookMyShow's work involved physical delivery of tickets and COD. It was a logistical nightmare.

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant surprised that Delhi-NCR has more start-ups than Bengaluru

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
A report by entrepreneur network TiE has revealed Delhi-NCR has 7,039 start-ups while Bengaluru has 5,234. Amitabh Kant urged the city’s rich to invest in them.

India’s start-up scene isn’t as sexy as China’s, but it’s growing

Tim Culpan -
Contract management & food delivery may not be as chic as electric cars or AI, but India is about to prove you don’t need to be hip to be hot.

What slowdown? Global funds are chasing India’s start-up boom with a spree of deals

Saritha Rai -
The rising interest in India occurs as investment in China’s recently start-up sector faces a steep drop-off & India assures political stability.

This Bengaluru-based startup is helping save India’s soldiers on the frontlines

Sandhya Ramesh -
Axio Biosolutions, which produces a cheap haemostat, is the first Indian company to receive US FDA clearance for a wound dressing.

Govt spells out defence industry vision: $5 billion exports by 2025, leader in AI, cyberspace

Manu Pubby -
Rs 1,000 crore startup funds, 3 million jobs in defence ministry’s plan for next seven years.

K. Vaitheeswaran’s new book has many lessons for Modi’s Startup India

Divya Narayanan -
K. Vaitheeswaran co-founded India’s first e-commerce website, Fabmart.com and his book speaks of how it collapsed.

Only 20% of startups used single-window facility for approvals: NITI Aayog survey

Kaveesha Kohli -
First ‘ease of doing business’ report, published by NITI Aayog, says only 41 percent of industry experts are aware of this facility
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In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Swasti Rao -
Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Gaza deal is meant to ensure Netanyahu’s re-election and a Nobel for Trump, not peace

PoK burns with anger against Pakistani state. You won’t see it in Kashmir-obsessed Western media

Economy

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Udit Bubna -
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

Defence

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

National Interest

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.

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