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“You are what you eat”- This awareness has grown. People have evolved from what they used to be up until even a decade ago. Earlier, the cattle or poultry used to be procured, it would be bred ethically. Today, the use of GMO crops has increased, genetic modifications of these animals have been on the ...

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has signed an MoU with food processing ministry to support micro-level food entrepreneurs and Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). The MoU, signed on 2nd October, also aims to support Self Help Groups (SHGs) and producers’ cooperatives to improve the standard of their food businesses.

Online shopping major Myntra’s biggest-ever edition of Big Fashion Festival has been off to an incredible start on October 4 with the ongoing event recording purchase of nearly 6 lakh items in the first hour. The opening day saw an overwhelming response with ~19 million visitors from across the country, making it Myntra’s highest-ever Day ...

Blue-collar workforce management platform Smartstaff (previously Qikwork) on Monday announced to have raised $4.3 million in funding from Blume Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and Arkam Ventures, along with Gemba Capital and angels.  The funds raised will be used for further enhancing the product and building the team.“With more and more industrial workers getting access to ...

This usually occurs in new businesses. After the first failure, most entrepreneurs quit business once and for all. They convince themselves that it's not something that they're suited for. Few entrepreneurs analyze what went wrong and dare to persist. I grew up in an age that saw the making of giants like Flipkart, Paytm, Ola, ...

Global digital ecosystem enabler Tata Communications, and San Jose-headquartered multinational technology conglomerate corporation Cisco Systems, on Monday announced the expansion of their two-decades-long strategic global partnership. This new agreement is between Tata Communications and Cisco Meraki to empower enterprises with simple and easy to deploy, manage, and analyze IT infrastructure for delivering anywhere, anytime access.