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GIZ organizes meet for Industry-Academia to foster innovation ecosystem in Aurangabad MSMEs & Institutes

GIZ organizes meet for Industry-Academia to foster…

Aurangabad, Dec 10 (KNN) In order to build a Local Innovation Eco System in the city, MSMEs and academic institutions came together for “Aurangabad…

Supreme Court asks Centre to guarantee minimum mandatory cash for citizens

Supreme Court asks Centre to guarantee minimum…

New Delhi, Dec 10 (KNN) The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to consider the minimum guaranteed cash for every customer per month. The court…

RBI should supply enough cash or suspend all cash transactions: Bank Employees

RBI should supply enough cash or suspend…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) After the Opposition, it is now the bank employees who have threatened to stage protest if they are not supplied adequate cash at…

Don’t use newspapers to pack food, Nadda tells public; asks FSSAI to issue advisory, create awareness amongst SMBs

Don’t use newspapers to pack food, Nadda…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) Health Ministry has asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to issue an advisory restricting the use…

K’ taka Govt, KASSIA organizes workshop for MSMEs on “Front End Business Process on GST Portal”

K’ taka Govt, KASSIA organizes workshop for…

Bengaluru, Dec 9 (KNN) The Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) in partnership with the state government today organized a workshop for…

Most Electricity Regulators mute spectators as DISCOMS flout their directives: FISME

Most Electricity Regulators mute spectators as DISCOMS…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) It is no more a surprise for the stakeholders that electricity watchdogs across the country have been failing to enforce their own…

MSME Ministry to meet industry to assess possible ratification of 13 PoPs under Stockholm Convention

MSME Ministry to meet industry to assess…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MoMSME) is holding a meeting with the MSME associations on December 14, 2016,…

Even if workers have A/Cs, they have to take a day’s off to withdraw money: MSMEs

Even if workers have A/Cs, they have…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) The Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya held meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss ways to help workers in the…

West Bengal Tax Dept urges MSMEs to create ID at the earliest at GST Common Portal

West Bengal Tax Dept urges MSMEs to…

Kolkata, Dec 9 (KNN) The Goods & Services Tax Network (GSTN) has started migrating the existing VAT payers into the GST system from November 30, 2016…

Income Tax Dept busts innovative methods of converting black money into white

Income Tax Dept busts innovative methods of…

New Delhi, Dec 9 (KNN) The Income Tax Department has successfully nabbed a syndicate of ground level operators active in converting banned currency notes…

RBI unwilling to  supply more – the currency shortage to continue

RBI unwilling to supply more – the…

Mumbai, Dec 8 (KNN) In the Press Conference held on the Monetary policy, RBI announced that against demonetisation of currency notes worth Rs. 11.55 lakh…

Vendor Development Programmes, Buyer-Seller Meets being held across states to boost procurement from SC/ ST entrepreneurs

Vendor Development Programmes, Buyer-Seller Meets being held…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) In order to enhance procurement from the SC/ ST entrepreneurs, the National SC/ ST Hub, under the Ministry of MSME, is actively organizing…

Even one month after demonetization, no ‘Achhe Din’ for farmers: BKU

Even one month after demonetization, no ‘Achhe…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) Even a month after the government made an announcement on demonetization, the farmers still seem to be unhappy with the government…

Govt considering compulsory licensing for mfg of ‘other tobacco products’

Govt considering compulsory licensing for mfg of…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) Government is considering proposal to bring manufacture of ‘other tobacco products’ under the ambit of compulsory licensing.

Failing to control transmission losses, J&KSERC burdens industry with power tariff hike: J&K MSMEs

Failing to control transmission losses, J&KSERC burdens…

Jammu, Dec 8 (KNN) The J&K based MSMEs, who have been facing slowdown in their businesses for last few months because of several reasons including the…

Govt waives service tax on card transactions of up to Rs 2000

Govt waives service tax on card transactions…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) In order to ease the burden of service tax on small transactions made through cards, the government today waived service tax on debit…

Reforms to boost employment generation and exports in the made-ups sector will generate 11 lakh jobs, benefit workers

Reforms to boost employment generation and exports…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the reforms to boost employment generation and exports in the Made-ups Sector. The interventions…

NALCO to provide hand-holding support to MSME vendors; help publicize their brands

NALCO to provide hand-holding support to MSME…

New Delhi, Dec 8 (KNN) Public Sector Unit (PSU) NALCO is ready to provide hand-hold support to its regular MSME vendors who ensure quality and timely delivery…

Unchanged lending rate is a surprise, but it seems RBI is waiting for the banks to pass rate cuts: Economists

Unchanged lending rate is a surprise, but…

New Delhi, Dec 7 (KNN) Unchanged Repo Rate has come as a surprise for many Economists, but at the same time they feel that transmission of lending rates…

MSME Ministry to suggest increasing withdrawal limit to Rs 2 lakh per week for MSMEs

MSME Ministry to suggest increasing withdrawal limit…

New Delhi, Dec 7 (KNN) Ministry for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) will suggest for increasing the withdrawal limit to Rs 2 lakh per week for…