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March 2, 2016 IITs look to nurture start-ups, host companies’ R&D centres
Around 40 start-ups work out of the IIT Madras research park. In the next six months, that number is slated to go up to 200. Tanuj Jhunjhunwala, 24, quit his job in a multinational car maker to return to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, to start an underwater robotics company. […]
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March 2, 2016 HRD ministry asks Central Universities to ‘proudly’ fly national flag
A file photo of HRD minister Smriti Irani. Photo: Hindustan Times New Delhi: The human resource development ministry on Thursday told all central universities to fly the national flag. Flags must fly at a height of 207 feet. The order comes amid a fierce debate on nationalism, with the ruling party and opposition calling each […]
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March 2, 2016 The teacher with a million-dollar plan
Robin Chaurasiya, one of the 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2016. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint Mumbai: Robin Chaurasiya, one of the 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2016, knows what she is going to do with her million dollars if she wins—she will share it with the nine others. “They all need the […]
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March 2, 2016 National flag only one of the many plans Smriti Irani has for universities
A file photo of HRD minister Smriti Irani. Photo: PTI On Thursday, Union minister of human resource development Smriti Irani chaired a conference of 46 central university vice-chancellors at Surajkund, Haryana. There were several resolutions passed unanimously at the conference. While one of the proposals, the mandatory flying of the flag, dominated most of the […]
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March 2, 2016 JNU rally for convicted terrorist wrong: poll
A demonstrator waves Indian national flag as she takes part in a protest demanding the release of Kanhaiya Kumar in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters A majority of respondents to an instaVaani poll opposed the rally staged by some Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students to commemorate the anniversary of the hanging of Afzal Guru, a convict […]
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March 2, 2016 Budget pegs Rs72,394 crore as education outlay for 2016-17
As part of the pending move, all education credentials of students from Class X onwards would be digitized and kept in a demat format. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint New Delhi: The Union budget on Monday allocated Rs.72,394 crore to education in the 2016-17 financial year, an increase of around 5% over the 2015-16 estimate. Of the […]
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March 1, 2016 BankBazaar.com ventures into international markets with Singapore entry
BankBazaar has set a target of around $10 million net revenue run rate (dollar terms) for its Singapore market in the coming months. Bengaluru: A&A Dukaan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd, the company that operates online financial services marketplace BankBazaar.com, has ventured into the international market starting with operations in Singapore. The company has appointed former […]
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March 1, 2016 Meet the first Indian start-ups to adopt IBM Watson platform
A file photo of IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, New York. Kartik Mohla, a graduate in management information systems, used to work at an US investment bank before he came back to India to join his family business that helps companies boost the skills and productivity of their employees. Now, he is the CEO of InspireOne […]
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March 1, 2016 Food-tech firms eye institutional orders to increase cash flows
Yumist piloted institutional sales with 25 companies in Gurgaon in January and has now expanded to South Delhi and Bengaluru. Food-tech start-ups such as Yumist, Bite Club and InnerChef have started serving institutional customers such as Google, Citibank, Snapdeal, Yatra and Oyo Rooms across Delhi, Gurgaon and Bengaluru in an effort to build scale and […]
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March 1, 2016 What next for education start-up Simplilearn?
Venture firms backing the Bengaluru-based start-up include Mayfield Fund, Kalaari Capital and Helion Venture Partners. Bengaluru: When Krishna Kumar started a personal blog in 2009 and posted free video lessons and a practice test there, the idea wasn’t to do business. It was to kill boredom. Six years later, the blog has become Simplilearn Solutions […]
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March 1, 2016 Ibibo to raise $250 million from Naspers
A file photo of Ashish Kashyap, founder and chief executive officer, Ibibo Group. Photo: Mint New Delhi: Indicating a huge opportunity in the travel and hotel booking space, South African media company Naspers Group on Wednesday announced its plans to invest an additional $250 million in online travel venture Ibibo Group, which owns and operates […]
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March 1, 2016 Google partners TechHub to help startups
Photo: Reuters New Delhi: Search giant Google Inc. on Wednesday said it has partnered with TechHub, a global community for tech entrepreneurs, as it tries to help startup companies. TechHub, which helps tech companies across the world scale their businesses, said the collaboration will benefit Indian startups. TechHub members in Bengaluru, Riga, Bucharest, Madrid, Warsaw […]
