GN Bureau | March 12, 2016
The Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay has launched India’s first deep-tech venture capital fund managed by an academia-linked incubator -- the Y-Point Venture Capital Fund. With a total corpus of Rs 250 crore, the fund aims to accelerate early-stage deep-tech startups b
Remembering the Past: Critical Perspectives on the Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984 Edited by Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry, with a Foreword by Amritjit Singh Orient BlackSwan, pages, Rs 1,285
`Vande Mataram` showed India the way to self-reliance. "It became a mantra to challenge external companies, which also expanded the mantra of independence towards the mantra of Swadeshi,” prime minister Narendra Modi said in the Lok Sabha on Monday, as he initiated a debate on the occasion of th
From Topaz in the 1970s to Supermax through 2023, RK Malhotra was the man behind one of India`s top razor blade brands. His unusual story is now told in ‘Ace of Blades: The Life Story of the Blade King of India’ (Jaico Publishing House). This is an account of a man whose obsession with the
Unlike the US and the West, Russia does not have a relationship with India merely based on transactional exchange of goods or commodities. Instead, it is based on deep mutual understanding and trust, which have helped the two countries in navigating ups and downs of international geopolitics for decades.
The union government has reiterated its commitment to the development and expansion of the railway network in Maharashtra. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the significant progress achieved in recent years through enhanced budgetary suppo
