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Sanjay Mehta on investment preferences and startup ideas he won't fund
Sanjay Mehta, a serial entrepreneur-turned-investor, gets nearly 200 startup investment proposals every month. The early-stage investor has backed about 40 ......
Consumer
Lingerie firm Brandis' founder Nischal Puri steps down as MD
Bangalore-based Brandis Manufacturing and Marketing Ltd's founder and promoter Nischal Puri has stepped down as the managing director of the ......
TMT
End of the road for LocalBanya?
Online supermarket LocalBanya.com’s last-ditch efforts to resurrect itself seem to have failed as discussions with three major investment groups for ......
TMT
How BigBasket is taking the fight back to hyperlocal grocery startups
The country's top online grocer BigBasket.com is partnering speciality third party stores, going closer to consumers home and moving in ......
TMT
Wipro names Bhanumurthy COO
After elevating COO Abidali Z Neemuchwala as CEO earlier this week, Wipro has made a long-time top company executive Bhanumurthy ......
Consumer
IFC to invest in agri-commodity firm Olam to expand in India, Nigeria
Singapore-based commodities merchant Olam International Ltd is raising $175 million from International Finance Corp, the private sector lending arm of ......
TMT
Nandan Nilekani, the ‘process' philanthropist
Nandan Nilekani and his entrepreneur wife Rohini are ranked 69th on Forbes’ list of richest Indians with an estimated wealth ......
General
Meet the new head of fair trade regulator CCI
Devender Kumar Sikri, a former Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, has been named as chairman of fair-trade regulator ......
TMT
What does Netflix's entry mean for other internet TV companies in India
So far Indian audiences have been able to watch only a handful of Netflix original content. That is now going ......
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Why India's 2016 growth could lag latest World Bank forecast
The World Bank has snipped India’s growth outlook for the current and the next fiscal years but said the country ......