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Gold price drops, jewellery exporters cash in

Gold price drops, jewellery exporters cash in

New Delhi, Apr 15 (KNN) The sharp drop in gold prices augurs well for India’s gems and jewellery exports because lower cost of the raw materials will…
Soon warehouses abroad to help SME pharma exporters

Soon warehouses abroad to help SME pharma…

New Delhi, Apr 15 (KNN) The Commerce Ministry is planning to open common warehouse facilities in some key foreign markets to cater to the small and medium…
EDI offers SME Banking course for entrepreneurs

EDI offers SME Banking course for entrepreneurs

Ahmedabad, Apr 15 (KNN)  The Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) of India will start new courses for those who intend to build businesses…
Solar power to light up University of Hyderabad

Solar power to light up University of…

Hyderabad, Apr 15 (KNN)  Authorities at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have decided to opt for solar power to overcome regular power cuts and steep…
Russia to partner in setting up industrial townships

Russia to partner in setting up industrial…

New Delhi, Apr 15 (KNN) Russia will be a key partner in the government's initiative of setting up world-class mega industrial zones under the New Manufacturing…
Overall inflation down, but items like onion consumed by wage workers excessively expensive

Overall inflation down, but items like onion…

New Delhi, Apr 15 (KNN) Almost near one percentage point drop in the wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation may have raised expectations of cut in interest rates by RBI,…
Govt seeks professionals to increase manufacture of electronics

Govt seeks professionals to increase manufacture of…

New Delhi, Apr 15 (KNN)  With an aim to enhance technology development and manufacture of hardware in the country, the Department of Electronics and Information…
Kumar Mangalam bats for MSMEs

Kumar Mangalam bats for MSMEs

New Delhi, Apr 13 (KNN)  Aditya Birla Group Chairman, Kumar Mangalam Birla pressed for better financing to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to…
DGFT pushes the deadline for affixing barcodes for pharma

DGFT pushes the deadline for affixing barcodes…

New Delhi, Apr 13 (KNN) India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has pushed back the deadline for adopting bar codes on primary level packaging…
Great Indian Travel Bazaar to focus on inbound tourism

Great Indian Travel Bazaar to focus on…

Jaipur, Apr 13 (KNN)  The Great Indian Travel Bazaar 2013, an international tourism mart to be held in Jaipur from April 14-16 will bring together 274…
Handicraft exports meet target for Fiscal 2012-13

Handicraft exports meet target for Fiscal 2012-13

New Delhi, Apr 13 (KNN) India's  handicraft exports have met the target of USD 3.3 billion set for the 2012-13 fiscal, despite a slowdown in…
Poor infra roadblocks to India becoming world food leader

Poor infra roadblocks to India becoming world…

New Delhi, Apr 13 (KNN)  Poor infrastructure for primary processing, packaging, grading and inadequate cold chain storage facilities have prevented India…
TANSTIA plans meeting on SME development

TANSTIA plans meeting on SME development

New Delhi, Apr 13 (KNN) The first regional conference of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) proposed by Tamil Nadu Small and Tiny Industries Association (TANSTIA),…
India-EU FTA: Wait till our report, says Commerce panel head Shanta Kumar

India-EU FTA: Wait till our report, says…

New Delhi, Apr 12 (KNN) Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce, V Shanta Kumar has asked the government not to sign the India-European…
Asia has huge potential for tourism growth: Chiranjeevi

Asia has huge potential for tourism growth:…

Hyderabad, Apr 12 (KNN)  Asia and the Pacific region with its bounty of tourism destinations has huge potential for growth and that needs to be tapped,…
Increased fund allocation to agriculture yields results

Increased fund allocation to agriculture yields results

New Delhi, Apr 12 (KNN)  Allocation of additional funds to agriculture by state governments to finance cash starved projects and innovation under Rashtriya…
SMEs enjoy cloud services in Africa

SMEs enjoy cloud services in Africa

New Delhi, Apr 12 (KNN)  Internet users in Ghana and Nigeria now enjoy the access of cloud based applications through their web browsers or mobile apps,…
Gujarat attracts highest private investment commitment

Gujarat attracts highest private investment commitment

Ahmedabad Apr 12 (KNN) Gujarat attracted the highest private investment commitment  in the country followed by Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and…
Power tariff hike to affect small businesses in Punjab

Power tariff hike to affect small businesses…

New Delhi, Apr 12 (KNN) The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) on Wednesday announced an average power tariff hike of 9 per cent for the…
Obama proposes a slew of measures for small businesses

Obama proposes a slew of measures for…

New Delhi, Apr 12 (KNN)  Small businesses that hired new workers or gave salary hikes to their workers in the US, last year, are likely to be given a…

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