What is holding back women entrepreneurs in India? Social norms, poor support networks and more

Mentorship, mutual support groups and training in managerial and technical skills can help women run businesses.

Shalini Singh, IndiaSpend.com

· Yesterday · 09:30 pm

A technical glitch that halted NSE trading for hours has the Indian government worried

Last month, the stock exchange’s two service providers simultaneously went down, resulting in heavy losses for investors.

Prathamesh Mulye, Qz.com

· Mar 04, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Haryana’s decision to reserve 75% private jobs for locals will ‘spell disaster’, says FICCI

The Bill proposes to reserve 75% of the jobs in the private sector that pay less than Rs 50,000 per month.

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· Mar 04, 2021 · 05:09 pm

EPFO keeps interest rate on provident fund deposits unchanged at 8.5%

The interest rate had been reduced to a seven-year low of 8.5% in March last year.

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· Mar 04, 2021 · 03:32 pm

India will give Tesla incentives to make production cost lesser than in China, says Nitin Gadkari

The minister said that Tesla should look to manufacture cars, and not just assemble them, in order to get higher incentives.

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· Mar 03, 2021 · 10:07 pm

Telecom spectrum auction: Reliance acquires over half of airwaves on sale for Rs 57,122 crore

The most expensive band of 700 megahertz went unsold due to high reserve prices.

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· Mar 03, 2021 · 03:13 pm

‘Make in India’ initiative epitomises challenges in bilateral trade relationship: US report

In the ‘2021 Trade Policy Agenda and 2020 Annual Report’, the US representative said India’s policies were ‘trade-restrictive’.

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· Mar 02, 2021 · 01:31 pm

GST collections in February recorded at Rs 1.13 lakh crore

On Friday, the Centre released Rs 4,000 crore to states and Union territories in the 18th installment to meet GST compensation shortfall.

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· Mar 01, 2021 · 06:34 pm

How Facebook’s No 2 executive silenced an enemy of Turkey to protect the tech giant’s business

Newly disclosed emails amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign show the platform’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg agreed to block a Kurdish group’s page.

Jack Gillum, ProPublica

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· Feb 27, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Household incomes in India are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock

Even as the country ‘unlocked’ in September 2020, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s data shows that unemployment numbers rose to over 9% in December.

Manavi Kapur, qz.com

· Feb 27, 2021 · 01:30 pm

India’s GDP grew by 0.4% in third quarter, full year estimates revised to -8% from -7.7%

Growth rates for the first and second quarter, which were already in the negative, have been revised to show further contraction.

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· Feb 26, 2021 · 05:39 pm

Banking sector was hurt in the name of aggressive lending, says PM Modi in veiled dig at Opposition

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar said that India needs to stand up in support of small business, especially MSMEs.

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· Feb 26, 2021 · 02:35 pm