Ashok Leyland, Lithium Urban Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ola Cabs, Ridlr, SUN Mobility, Tata Motors, and Transit Intelligence put their heads together at a three-day workshop in Pune to explore...

HelpUsGreen set out to clean India’s rivers of temple flowers. Now it’s changing lives too. Help Us Green Co-founders Ankit and Karan. A plastic stool. This was what one woman said she liked best ...

Mysuru, or Mahishur as it was called in the past, traces its history back to the mythical past, when Goddess Chamundeshwari of Chamundi Hill killed Mahishasura, the wicked buffalo-headed demon. This e...

Celebrity fashion company Universal Sportsbiz (USPL), which is backed by Sachin Tendulkar, has raised Series E funding of $13.5 million led by Accel Partners. Post this fund raise, the company’s valua...

Ecommerce company Myntra will now sell its private label in Walmart stores in Canada to cater to the festive shopping needs of the Indian diaspora. Bang in the middle of the festive season, omnichann...

Celebrity fashion company Universal Sportsbiz (USPL), which is backed by Sachin Tendulkar, has raised Series E funding of $13.5 million led by Accel Partners. Debt Capital firm Alteria Capital made it...

OYO readies to launch in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Palembang with over 1,000 rooms, and is aiming for a presence in over 35 Indonesian cities by 2019. Delhi-NCR-based hospitality startup OYO is set to s...

Bengaluru-based Uncanny Vision develops optimised computer vision solutions for the embedded market and uses artificial intelligence to make CCTV and surveillance cameras more intelligent. Surveillan...

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, it is all the more clear that women have to fend for themselves at every point - at home, outside, online and offline. Being a woman in India ain’t easy. Centuries...

In 2016, the central government exempted startups from needing prior experience while applying for public procurement contracts. Two years down the line, several state governments are doing their bit ...

TiE, which is heavily investing in SaaS, healthcare, and IoT, expects to increase its network’s funding pool to $30 million by 2019. The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global network of entrepreneurs...

Sikkim beat 51 other nominations from across the world; Brazil, Denmark and Quito in Ecuador shared the second spot. Sikkim has earned the badge of being the world's first 100 per cent organic state....

Competing with 12,000 applicants in the ongoing Breakthrough Junior Challenge, three Indian teenagers Nikhiya Shamsher (16) and Samay Godika (16) from Bengaluru, and Kavya Negi (18) from Delhi have ma...

HotStar, Amazon Prime, Voot, and JioTV better watch out. Video streaming giant Netflix says its “just getting started in India”. The company is all set to take on competition in India with more multi-...

Araku, which competed with popular coffee blend varieties from Sumatra and Colombo, is the first Indian coffee blend to have won the prestigious Prix Epicures OR 2018 Award. Hankering for some Kopi L...

Located at 3,000 metres on the strategic Bilaspur-Manali-Leh line close to the Sino-India border of Himachal Pradesh, a 27-km long tunnel will house thecountry's first railway station to be built insi...

Pramod Bhurji, the 27-year-old founder of DeWaste Environment Solutions, is working to reduce wastage in the farm-to-fork supply chain to resolve India’s waste management problem. Pramod Bhurji Pri...

Many years ago, I worked with someone who loved telling me how I wasn’t doing enough – again and again. Even though I had the hours and bylines to prove him wrong, he had succeeded in making me questi...

A highly placed source in Bigbasket, on condition of anonymity, confirmed the company has acquired Pune-based hyperlocal delivery startup RainCan and Bengaluru-based MorningCart. These acquisitions gi...

Global streaming company Netflix added 6.96 million new customers this quarter, surpassing analyst predictions. California-based streaming giant Netflix's stock rose 14 percent after the company repo...

Powered Accelerator unveiled its first cohort of women-led startups who showcased their technology innovations across diverse areas Powered Accelerator, an entrepreneurship programme focusing on wome...

Content is the key part of marketing and advertising. Quality content can help you grab the audience’s attention, and drive traffic and conversions. Right now, the world is drowning in brands. A Wo...

MJ Akbar has resigned from his post of Minister of State External Affairs, according to ANI. The former Union Minister was called out for sexual harassment by over a dozen women during his tenure as a...

Radhika and Bharath Patil founded Cradlewise, which will soon launch a responsive, automated smart cradle - NiNi - that will help babies sleep soundly. Radhika and Bharath Patil - Founders of Cradle...

The debate on work-life balance will continue ad infinitum, but it’s heartening to note that women are finding returning to work after a career break easier as companies take proactive steps to tap th...

Why have women held back for years? We find out what has held women from speaking up, and how #MeToo has given a voice to the many repressed incidents of abuse - finally. Why don’t women speak up so...

A highly placed source in Bigbasket, on condition of anonymity, confirmed the company has acquired Pune-based hyperlocal delivery startup RainCan and Bengaluru-based MorningCart. These acquisitions gi...

Indian American Professor of Physics, Abhay Ashtekar will be awarded the Einstein Prize for 2018 for his contribution to the field of Gravitational Physics. The prize, awarded by the American Physica...

Sweekar - The Rainbow Parents is a support group for parents of LGBTQ+ children and aims to create awareness and change mindsets. In a unanimous verdict in September this year, the Supreme Court str...

Actor Nandita Das said in a Facebook post today that she will continue be a strong supporter of the #MeToo movement even after ‘disturbing allegations’ emerged yesterday against her father, painter Ja...

Leadership teams from top companies vetted 16 startups curated by TiE-Mumbai, and gave them feedback on how to impress investors and partners during a pitch. It’s not easy to pitch a business idea to...

What does it take for women to start up in the Indian ecosystem? At TechSpark’s 9th edition, women entrepreneurs from the Facebook SheLeadsTech community came together to discuss this and other topics...

Come October, and India gets wrapped up in the festive spirit — pandals pop up in all by-lanes, street food takes centrestage for dinner, street hawkers have colourful firkis (paper windmills) to sell...

On the streets of Delhi, an unclaimed dead body attracts attention. Apart from a few whispers and looks, no one steps into help. Social activist Ravi Kalra is the only person to step into the picture...

By involving end-users in research, design, production and marketing, organisations of all types can ensure successful innovation, as this new book explains. Traditional top-down business models ba...

“Bengaluru didn’t become the Silicon Valley of India just because there was space for startups. What made it was the ecosystem, the access, the environment which enabled startups to do things in a bet...

Deepanshu Manchanda started his career as a door-to-door salesman for Kurkure and is now the CEO of Zappfresh, which delivers nearly 1,000 meat and seafood orders every single day. Going to local ma...

InnoVen Capital today announced that it has invested $3 million debt capital in curated travel platform TravelTriangle. This is its second investment in the online platform; InnoVen had earlier invest...

This year’s Tech30 enterprise tech startup Worxogo has raised Rs 16.5 crore in funding led by Inventus India and Ideaspring Capital. It is a platform that offers a personal cognitive AI coach to emplo...