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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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Opinion

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

BP Godrej -
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Pakistan strategic pact with Saudi Arabia is really about Iran. And blessed by US

World’s greatest cricket rivalry is now an off-field battle between BCCI, PCB, and ICC

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

Mayank Kumar -
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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