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Indian Clothing And Fashion Start-Up Meesho Lays Off 15% Of Its Employees
E-commerce firm Meesho has laid off 251 employees constituting 15 per cent of its workforce to cut costs and as part of its efforts to achieve profitability, a top company official said on Friday.
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Aadhaar Holders Carried Out 2.31 Billion Authentication Transactions in March
Aadhaar holders have carried out nearly 2.31 billion authentication transactions in the month of March 2023, indicative of the growing usage of Aadhaar and the growth of the digital economy in the country. A majority of the authentication transactions were carried out by using biometric fingerprints during the month, followed by others.
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Centre Extends Deadline For Seeking Comments On Draft E-Commerce Rules Till July 21
The extension was given after several e-commerce firms urged the Centre to give them some more time to submit comments on the new rules.
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Finance Ministry To Meet Infosys To Remove Glitches In Income Tax Website
Finance Ministry has received a lot of complaints regarding the new e-tax filing portal, which was unveiled on June 7.
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Amazon India Demands Product Listings Have Country Of Origin By August 10
The trade ministry has called for e-commerce sites to name the country of origin beside product listings
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E-Commerce Companies Begin Work To List "Country Of Origin" Label On Products: Report
The changes would reportedly be first made for new product listings as it is difficult to do this products already selling on their platforms
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Traders' Body Writes To PM, Suggests Measures To Tide Over Financial Stress
In the letter, the traders' body said that e-commerce players should not be allowed to sell products over Rs 5,000.
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Moody's Lowers India GDP Growth Projection Amid COVID-19 Crisis: 10 Points
Credit ratings major Moody's on Tuesday cut its forecast for GDP or gross domestic product expansion in India on account of the economy fallout from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has pushed world business into a standstill. Moody's Investors Service now projects the country's economy to grow 0.2 per cent in 2020, marking a sharp downwa...
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How An Umbrella-Sharing Start-Up Lost Nearly All Its 300,000 Umbrellas
Only three months into starting up operations in 11 cities across China, Sharing E Umbrella announced that it lost almost all of its umbrellas, reports South China Morning Post. Here's what happened to their nearly 300,000 umbrellas.
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Budget Today, Say Sources, Amid Talk After Lawmaker E Ahamed's death: 10 Points
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will decide whether the Union Budget will be presented today, after a member of the house E Ahamed died last night. Sources, however say, the budget will be presented as scheduled, according to news agency ANI. Parliament is usually adjourned for a day after a sitting member dies. A decision is expected after 10 am...
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Digital Transactions Not a Short-Term Substitute for Cash, Says PM Modi
"Digital transactions facilitate formal accounting and sizing of the economy," he said.
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Prime Minister's Office Conducts Workshop on Mobile Banking
Officers demonstrated the process of cashless transactions and helped their staff members download the relevant mobile apps.
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India, US Eye Bilateral Trade Worth $500 Billion: Report
Positioned as a major investment destination to the world, India is targeting to increase its bilateral trade with the US to $500 billion from current levels of over $100 billion, in the near term.
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Budget 2014: Government Emphasis on Job Creation to Create Five-Eight Million Jobs in Three-Four Years
With the government putting strong emphasis on job creation, experts today said measures proposed in the union budget can help create 5-8 million jobs in next 3-4 years across various sectors.
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'Exports to US, Europe registered positive growth in April-October'
The country's exports to Europe has increased to $33.15 billion in the first seven months of the current fiscal from $31.28 billion in the same period last year, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry E M Sudarsana Natchiappan said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
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Indian Clothing And Fashion Start-Up Meesho Lays Off 15% Of Its Employees
E-commerce firm Meesho has laid off 251 employees constituting 15 per cent of its workforce to cut costs and as part of its efforts to achieve profitability, a top company official said on Friday.
-
Aadhaar Holders Carried Out 2.31 Billion Authentication Transactions in March
Aadhaar holders have carried out nearly 2.31 billion authentication transactions in the month of March 2023, indicative of the growing usage of Aadhaar and the growth of the digital economy in the country. A majority of the authentication transactions were carried out by using biometric fingerprints during the month, followed by others.
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Centre Extends Deadline For Seeking Comments On Draft E-Commerce Rules Till July 21
The extension was given after several e-commerce firms urged the Centre to give them some more time to submit comments on the new rules.
-
Finance Ministry To Meet Infosys To Remove Glitches In Income Tax Website
Finance Ministry has received a lot of complaints regarding the new e-tax filing portal, which was unveiled on June 7.
-
Amazon India Demands Product Listings Have Country Of Origin By August 10
The trade ministry has called for e-commerce sites to name the country of origin beside product listings
-
E-Commerce Companies Begin Work To List "Country Of Origin" Label On Products: Report
The changes would reportedly be first made for new product listings as it is difficult to do this products already selling on their platforms
-
Traders' Body Writes To PM, Suggests Measures To Tide Over Financial Stress
In the letter, the traders' body said that e-commerce players should not be allowed to sell products over Rs 5,000.
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Moody's Lowers India GDP Growth Projection Amid COVID-19 Crisis: 10 Points
Credit ratings major Moody's on Tuesday cut its forecast for GDP or gross domestic product expansion in India on account of the economy fallout from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has pushed world business into a standstill. Moody's Investors Service now projects the country's economy to grow 0.2 per cent in 2020, marking a sharp downwa...
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How An Umbrella-Sharing Start-Up Lost Nearly All Its 300,000 Umbrellas
Only three months into starting up operations in 11 cities across China, Sharing E Umbrella announced that it lost almost all of its umbrellas, reports South China Morning Post. Here's what happened to their nearly 300,000 umbrellas.
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Budget Today, Say Sources, Amid Talk After Lawmaker E Ahamed's death: 10 Points
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will decide whether the Union Budget will be presented today, after a member of the house E Ahamed died last night. Sources, however say, the budget will be presented as scheduled, according to news agency ANI. Parliament is usually adjourned for a day after a sitting member dies. A decision is expected after 10 am...
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Digital Transactions Not a Short-Term Substitute for Cash, Says PM Modi
"Digital transactions facilitate formal accounting and sizing of the economy," he said.
-
Prime Minister's Office Conducts Workshop on Mobile Banking
Officers demonstrated the process of cashless transactions and helped their staff members download the relevant mobile apps.
-
India, US Eye Bilateral Trade Worth $500 Billion: Report
Positioned as a major investment destination to the world, India is targeting to increase its bilateral trade with the US to $500 billion from current levels of over $100 billion, in the near term.
-
Budget 2014: Government Emphasis on Job Creation to Create Five-Eight Million Jobs in Three-Four Years
With the government putting strong emphasis on job creation, experts today said measures proposed in the union budget can help create 5-8 million jobs in next 3-4 years across various sectors.
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'Exports to US, Europe registered positive growth in April-October'
The country's exports to Europe has increased to $33.15 billion in the first seven months of the current fiscal from $31.28 billion in the same period last year, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry E M Sudarsana Natchiappan said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
