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Export Of Agricultural Products Rises By 31 Per Cent: Govt

Opportunity India Desk Aug 08, 2022 - 3 min read

The exports of agricultural and processed food products has risen by 31 per cent in the first three months of the current Financial Year 2022-23 (April-June) as compare to the corresponding period of FY 2021-22, Ministry of Commerce & Industry said in a statement. According to the provisional data released by the Directorate General of ...

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Need to put handloom census data in public domain: Piyush Goyal

Opportunity India Desk Aug 08, 2022 - 3 min read

Union Minister Piyush Goyal has stressed upon the need to put the Census data of Handlooms, pertaining to over 35 lakh handloom workers, in the public domain for transparency and validation so that the benfits of handloom schemes reach the genuine beneficiaries. The minister was speaking at the National Handloom Day. He emphasised upon free ...

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Nine out of Ten Parents Want Ayurvedic Range of Baby Care; Says Shreedha Singh from The Ayurveda Co.

Opportunity India Desk Aug 05, 2022 - 8 min read

Our country, India, is famous for many things. We are the biggest democracy in the world, have the largest postal network and the most number of official languages that any country has. Apart from all these things, Ayurveda, the ancient branch of healthcare, is something which is known for being founded in India. The word ...

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TelioEV Appoints Mukesh Bansal As Chief Technology Officer

Opportunity India Desk Aug 05, 2022 - 3 min read

TelioEV, Electric vehicle (EV) charging network provider has announced the onboarding of Mukesh Bansal as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the company. Bansal brings around two decades of leadership experience in IoT and Robotics product solutions and customer engagement. Prior to TelioEV, Mukesh held leadership positions at Signify Innovations India Limited (Formerly Philips Lighting solutions) ...

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RBI Policy: Yet Another Hike In Repo Rate

Opportunity India Desk Aug 05, 2022 - 6 min read

As predicted by many economist and experts, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the bank has increased the repo rate by 50 basis point (bp). This hike shows the singular focus on inflation of the monetary policy committee (MPC). One bp is one hundredth of a percentage point. With this, ...

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Banglore Fintech Innoviti Joins ONDC Platform to Help Small Sellers Accelerate Sales

Opportunity India Desk Aug 05, 2022 - 2 min read

Banglore based collaborative commerce platform, Innoviti, announced to join government backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). The platform claims to help businesses grow by turning their payment transactions into purchase tools that urge their consumers to buy better products and more products. Innoviti processes digital purchases of INR 75,000 Cr. annually across more than ...

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Walmart, Flipkart to help local MSMEs expand in Assam Via E-Commerce

Opportunity India Desk Aug 05, 2022 - 3 min read

Walmart and Flipkart has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Assam’s Industries and Commerce and Public Enterprises Department and also the Public Health Engineering, Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship and Tourism Department to help local MSMEs get on to the e-commerce channel and expand. “Under this tripartite agreement, MSMEs will benefit from Walmart and ...

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Vedantu Hands Over Pink Slips To 100 Employees Amid Restructuring Exercise

Opportunity India Desk Aug 04, 2022 - 2 min read

As part of its restructuring exercise, edtech unicorn Vedantu has handed out pink slips to around 100 employees. It is the third lay off in the company as it had fired 624 full-time and contractual staffers in two batches in May this year comprising 10 per cent of its workforce. The online education platform’s ...

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Five Things To Know About Multi-Year Health Insurance Plans

Opportunity India Desk Aug 04, 2022 - 3 min read

Health is most important for people despite knowing that fact, a considerable proportion of the Indian population does not realise the significance of protecting their greatest wealth—health. According to NITI Aayog 2021 report, around 30 per cent or 42 crores of people is bereft of any kind of health insurance. However, ever since the ...

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Investments In Telehealth May Decrease 12 Percentage Points In Next 3 Years: Report

Opportunity India Desk Aug 04, 2022 - 3 min read

The Future Health Index (FHI) India 2022 report by Royal Philips, a global player in health technology revealed that investment in telehealth that had emerged as a successful model during COVID-19 pandemic are expected to decline 12 percentage points over the next three years. The company’s flagship report titled ‘Healthcare hits reset: Priorities shift ...

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