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CREATING HOMES THE COMMUNE WAY

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 2 min read

What’s your assessment of the Indian home decor market and with what vision are you entering India? Furniture, as a category, is growing in India. It is pegged at USD 19-18 billion and is projected to grow to USD 27 billion by 2022-23. The housing sector is developing very fast so that is also driving ...

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How Amazon with FISME Providing E-commerce Opportunity to Small Businesses

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 2 min read

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector has emerged as a highly vibrant and dynamic sector of the Indian economy over the last five decades. It contributes significantly to the economic and social development of the country by fostering entrepreneurship and generating largest employment opportunities at comparatively lower capital cost, next only to agriculture. ...

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EdTech startup Byju's raises $540 million to fuel its expansion plans

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

Byju's, education technology startup, has raised $540 million in a round led by South African tech conglomerate Naspers Ventures to fuel its expansion plans. The new round of funding is expected to value Bengaluru-based Byju's at around $3.6 billion, up from $1billion earlier this year. This will make the startup one of the top-five most valued Internet ...

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EdTEch Trends That Transformed The Indian Education System In 2018

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 2 min read

Emerging as one of the biggest business empire nationally and internationally, education has become one of the most profitable business opportunities in today’s time. Trends are something that implies for a short period of time, creating a huge impact. The year 2018 experienced the entry of such trends that carried the huge potential of developing ...

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Cygnett Hotels and Resorts plans to expand its operations

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

Cygnett Hotels and Resorts, affordable luxury hospitality brand, has chalked out an aggressive plan to expand its operations in India and abroad with a planned investment of Rs 280 crore over the next fiscal. Sarbendra Sarkar, Founder and MD of Cygnett, said, "We are scouting locations in cities like Rishikesh and Vrindavan. By 2020, we ...

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IIT Kharagpur developing mobile app to help smokers quit

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur' (IIT Kgp) researchers are developing a mobile application for helping smokers quit. A research team headed by Ram Babu Roy, assistant professor at Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Kgp, has developed a prototype of sensor-based activity tracking kit that can monitor the activities in daily lives along ...

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Zydus Wellness launches new variant Sugar Lite

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

Zydus Wellness has launched a new variant Sugar Lite, expanding its product portfolio. The company already has a strong presence in the sugar substitute market. Tarun Arora, Chief Operating Officer and Director, Zydus Wellness, said, "Consumer wanted a sugar substitute but did not want to give up their habit of including sugar in their diet ...

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Ladakh to get its first ever university

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

The State Administrative Council led by Governor Satyapal Malik has approved the Jammu and Kashmir University of Ladakh Bill, 2018. This bill will pave way for the setting up of the first ever university in Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region. The official spokesman said, "It will be a cluster university covering five colleges of Leh ...

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Nasscom collaborates with IIT-Madras to train people on digital skills

Opportunity India Desk Dec 18, 2018 - 1 min read

Industry body Nasscom has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras for its FutureSkills Platform. Under this platform, Nasscom is targeting to re-skill/upskill four million people from the IT-ITeS industry, students entering the workforce and employees of other industries/government on digital skills. Nasscom said, "The partnership (with IIT-Madras) will facilitate the building of ...

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Planning A Marketing Strategy For Your Education Business? Avoid These Common Mistakes

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 2 min read

Education is a growing marketplace. While strategized steps can help to grow your business in this market, certain common mistakes may prevent you from accelerating the enrolments. Marketing an education business just requires excellent planning, a little creativity and a dash of patience. Here are some of the most common marketing mistakes that the entrepreneurs in ...

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Third Sainik School to be established in Haryana soon

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 1 min read

The Centre has approved the setting up of one more Sainik School in Haryana, fulfilling a long-standing demand of the people of the state. The state government and the Ministry of Defence would soon sign a Memorandum of Agreement for the establishment of this school. For constructing Sainik School, the state government would provide Rs 50 ...

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How This AI Based Surgery Simulator Will Revolutionise The Healthcare Sector

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 2 min read

The doctor-patient ratio in India accounts for 1:1000. It is one of the lowest across the world. To bridge this gap, there is a dire need for more skilled and trained medical graduates. But it is believed that new doctors commit more mistakes that led to patient deaths and then as they became more experienced ...

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ISDM invites applications from aspirants who want to change the world

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), world’s first of its kind institute established to develop the discipline of Development Management across the globe, is inviting applications from aspirants who want to change the world through a meaningful career and make a good living doing so. In its endeavour to facilitate the creation of a cadre ...

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80% rise in the number of students aspiring to study medicine abroad

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 1 min read

There is a huge rise in the number of students wishing to study medicine abroad. This is being backed by the official data in response to an RTI filed to MCI in October 2018. The number of students who applied for the mandatory eligibility certificate from Medical Council of India (MCI) to study medicine abroad ...

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Eupheus Learning collaborates with Perfectice for launching 'AVOCADO APP'

Opportunity India Desk Dec 17, 2018 - 2 min read

Eupheus Learning, a Delhi based Ed Tech company, has announced its tie-up with Perfectice, a US-based analytics platform, to launch the 'AVOCADO APP', with the tagline Practice to Perfection. Currently, the App hosts Maths and Science practice questions but gradually other subjects will also be added on the platform. AVOCADO is an app to practice ...

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