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India Needs To Adopt World Standards In Cotton Productivity: Piyush Goyal

Opportunity India Desk Jul 25, 2022 - 3 min read

It is time for India to adopt world standards in cotton productivity and all stakeholders must share best practices to boost cotton productivity in the country to boost farmer incomes, Union Minister for Textiles Piyush Goyal said. The minister was attending a meeting with stakeholders of Cotton Textile Value Chain on improving cotton productivity ...

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XLRI Launches Two-Year Postgraduate Diploma Programme Focused On Entrepreneurship

Opportunity India Desk Jul 25, 2022 - 2 min read

XLRI Launches PG Diploma Programme Focused On Entrepreneurship An Entrepreneurship aimed two-year course has been inaugurated by Varun Alagh, Co-Founder of Mama Earth at XLRI – Xavier School of Management (XLRI Jamshedpur). The course, Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation, was launched in the Presence of Father Paul Fernandes, Director of ...

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MEITY Approves First Project Under The Chips To Startups Programme

Opportunity India Desk Jul 25, 2022 - 2 min read

The government has approved IIT Bhubaneswar’s project entitled ‘Energy Efficient Mesh Architecture Based Indigenous Neuromorphic Processor for Extreme Edge IoT (internet of things) Applications’. It will be run for five years under the Chips to Startup Program. According to the Minister of Electronics and Information technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the government has ...

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Start-Up VC Funding Up By 4.5% In India

Opportunity India Desk Jul 22, 2022 - 3 min read

Leading data and analytics company Global Data in its report said that India has witnessed 39 per cent Year-On-Year (YoY) growth in Venture Capital (VC) funding during the first half of 2022. “At a time when the start-up ecosystem in China is losing steam, Indian start-ups seem to be gaining investors’ confidence. India witnessed a ...

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RBL Partners With Valentino To Open Boutique In India

Opportunity India Desk Jul 22, 2022 - 3 min read

Reliance Brands Limited (RBL) has partnered with Valentino to bring most established Italian Maison de Couture in India. Under this partnership, RBL will open its first boutique in the national capital, followed by a flagship store in Mumbai. The first store is due to open by the end of the summer this year, ...

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Asia’s Largest International Franchise & Retail Show To Start On Aug 20

Opportunity India Desk Jul 22, 2022 - 5 min read

Asia’s Largest International Franchise & Retail Show Franchise India is all set to organise its 18th International Franchise and Retail Show under the umbrella of Franchise India 2022. This event will witness the participation of more than 500 indigenous brands and over 100 global brands along with over 40 thousand business buyers and over 10 ...

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Wehouse Brings One-Stop Solution For Real Estate Construction

Opportunity India Desk Jul 21, 2022 - 3 min read

Aiming to reform the construction sector and making it a simple process by bringing together all entities involved in the home-building phase and providing one stop solution, Sripad Nandiraj incepted a tech-powered construction company, Wehouse on the four T concept which stands for Transparency, Time Saving, Tracking and Technology. Hyderabad based company is now ...

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India Accelerator Aims To Be Spawning Ground For Emerging Start-ups

Opportunity India Desk Jul 21, 2022 - 5 min read

In a country like India where once a year a start-up would make it to the news, Indian start-ups have been causing quite a stir in the global start-up ecosystem. From rising record-high funding to minting unicorns, India has become a breeding ground for start-ups. The start-up funding rose to USD 42 billion and ...

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Railways Organises Workshop to Help Innovative Startups

Opportunity India Desk Jul 20, 2022 - 2 min read

Southwest Railways Mysore division has organised a workshop, on Indian Railway Innovation Program (IRIP) for fostering the development of Indian start-ups. Representatives of two dozen start-ups, and small and medium business, have attended the workshop physically while over one and half dozen did through video conferencing. This workshop was conducted as a part of

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Augmont Gold Launches Limited Edition Gold Coin to Celebrate 75th Independence Day

Opportunity India Desk Jul 19, 2022 - 2 min read

Augmont Gold, an Indian platform that deals in gold, announced the launch of a new 24 karat "Limited-edition Coin" minted by the India Government Mint (IGM). IGM is a part of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India (SPMCIL) that comprises divisions with a long and illustrious history of managing the nation's security printing ...

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