The IIM grad who went back to her roots in Bihar to open a school for underprivileged children. Twenty-eight-year-old Garima Vishal has embarked on a journey to educate under privileged children with an education system that is different from the one that is currently being followed in the country.
Founded in 2014 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, Dejawoo School of Innovation follows a three-pillar education system. How it all began An engineer from Manipal Institute of Technology, and an MBA graduate from IIM Lucknow, Garima hails from the town of Selra in Bihar. “My father has always encouraged my siblings and me to pursue higher education, as he understood the importance that education plays in today’s society.
Indian pharma views streamlined logistics key to successful supply chain management. Indian pharma industry sees that logistics is the key for the successful supply chain management of drugs. The sector which handles huge stock keeping units now will need to capitalise the advantage of analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) to ensure both qualitative and quantitative management of drugs. According to PS Bhagavan, former deputy director, pharmacy, Karnataka department of health and family welfare, logistic failure, financial loss and consequent impact at the end-user level is yet to be addressed.
The irony is that pharmacists are kept out of the cold chain management under National Immunization Programme. “A similar absence of pharmacists prevail in the private drug supply chain management too. 5 Methods for Improving Ecommerce Conversions. Annual US retail ecommerce sales are predicted to be roughly $460 billion in 2017. Within three years ecommerce sales are predicted to grow to as high as nearly $700 billion. Online retailers know that ecommerce is big business but how can those retailers continue to improve their sales? Conversion rate optimization is the process of increasing the number of users who complete a purchase on a website.
Despite the ever-expanding nature of ecommerce, many online retailers still struggle with conversion rate optimization. Even for ecommerce businesses who feel their current conversion rate is pretty strong there is always more work that can be done to improve conversions, and ultimately increase sales. Here are 5 key methods to improve ecommerce website conversions:
Government asks e-wallet, e-commerce companies to strengthen cyber security mechanisms. Searching for fairness in the Indian startup world. The shock wasn't in what was said, but who said it. Sachin Bansal, co-founder of the country's largest startup which has, so far, stayed ahead of its biggest global rival in India, told a Bengaluru audience recently: "We need to tell the world we need your capital, but we don't need your companies".Voicing similar sentiments was Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder of Ola, the company that has so far beaten the world's most valuable startup Uber in market share sweepstakes of the cab aggregation industry in India. "It's much easier for non-Indian companies to raise capital because they have profitable markets elsewhere," said Aggarwal. "You might call it capital dumping, predatory pricing or anti-WTO but it's a very unfair playing field for Indian startups.
" What will bring more capital? India has not been a great market for venture capital investors. The problem is that Indian companies have been reliant on foreign capital as domestic venture funds have not been able to scale up. " Major Initiatives and Accomplishments of Department of Commerce(DOC)-2016. Major Initiatives and Accomplishments of Department of Commerce(DOC)-2016 Exports record a positive growth Government E-Marketplace (GeM) launched in August, 2016 and becomes fully functional by October, 2016. Karnataka quota talk: 100% reservations for blue-collar jobs is ruinous.
The Karnataka government's decision to reserve all blue-collar jobs in all industries receiving concessions from the government—except IT and biotech (BT)—for Kannadigas puts it on a slippery slope. The Karnataka government’s decision to reserve all blue-collar jobs in all industries receiving concessions from the government—except IT and biotech (BT)—for Kannadigas puts it on a slippery slope. First, it sets a dangerous precedence of government-mandated reservation in the private sector. Cradles in Rajasthan for India's unwanted babies. In a desperate measure, Rajasthan government places cradles around the state where parents can leave unwanted babies.
Rajasthan, India - In the early morning hours outside a hospital in the city of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, a newborn baby girl - still with her umbilical cord attached - was found abandoned and in critical health. Underweight and wet after hours of intermittent rainfall throughout the night, the baby's condition deteriorated. E-Commerce Logistics Market Detailed Analysis and Forecast by 2024. The imminent explosion of cross-border e-commerce websites will cause a stir in the global e-commerce logistics market, predicts TMR in a new study.
The market will also receive a boost from the availability of low-cost cargo. This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/27/2016 -- The e-commerce logistics market report provides an analysis of the global market for the period from 2014 to 2024, wherein 2014 is the base year and the period from 2016 to 2024 is the forecast period. Data for 2014 has been included as historical information. The report covers all the prevalent trends playing a major role in the growth of the e-commerce logistics market over the forecast period. This research report provides in-depth analysis of the global e-commerce logistics market on the basis of service type, operational area, and geography. Additionally, the report offers an in-depth analysis of the drivers, restraints, and growth opportunities for the market.
Social mobility promises 'broken' for ethnic minority childrens. Black and Asian Muslim children are less likely to get professional jobs, despite doing better at school, according to an official report. The Social Mobility Commission said it uncovered "stark differences" between how groups progress into work. Some minorities have higher jobless rates, although poorer white boys are least likely to go to university. Alan Milburn, chair of the Commission, said the British 'social mobility promise' was being broken.
"British families are told that if their children go to school and work hard, they will be rewarded with good jobs and opportunities. But for many groups this promise is being broken," says the commission's report. "In recent months, the low educational attainment of White British boys has gained significant attention. Usage of technology and improved mobility helps e-commerce grow. The increasing use of digital technologies in buying and selling merchandise for convenience and mobility pushed e-commerce in India to an inflexion point in 2016. The rapid growth of smartphones and internet connectivity across the country, especially in tier-II and III cities, has given greater access to virtual shopping and e-tailing for the tech-savvy generation and millennials. Even as e-tail behemoths Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon vied for a greater pie of the growing e-commerce market, enterprises and businesses in diverse sectors have joined the bandwagon to hard-sell their products by leveraging digital technology.
“E-commerce in India is at an inflexion point, thanks to robust growth in consumer demand. Mobile penetration and increasing use of smartphones have led to the emergence of m-commerce, which accounted for about 40 percent of the sector’s sales this year,” Tata CLiQ Chief Executive Officer Ashutosh Pandey told IANS. Staying and ideating together, the start-up way. A young and successful Kerala-based entrepreneur is leading by example and piloting an ‘impact sourcing’ project in the State. Ecommerce company alibaba to soon lunch its first branch in mumbai,india.
Kotak Mahindra Bank, IDFC Bank and Aditya Birla Finance are the company's new partners in India Alibaba, largest e-commerce entity in China, is setting up its first India office in Mumbai, apparently an indication that it would step up investment in the country in the coming year, to capture a pie of the growing e-commerce market here. So far, the Jack Ma-founded enterprise has been a preferred platform for small businesses in India to source industrial goods from China.
And, for vendors selling their products to customers globally. Vodafone bets on enterprise business to drive growth. Vodafone is in talks with a state election commission to provide customised communication services, including a monitoring system that would allow the election commissioner to see as many as 22,000 polling booths at one shot, as India’s second largest telco bets on its enterprise business to drive growth. The talks with the election commission include a mechanism to facilitate payments to all volunteers directly via Vodafone’s mobile wallet, Nick Gliddon, director for business services at Vodafone India, said without naming the state. Vodafone is looking to beef up its enterprise services at a time when its retail mobile business is under intense competitive pressure after the entry of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Vodafone, which worked with the election commission during recent polls in certain places, is also tying up with microfinance firms and startups.
Best small ecommarce business resolutions in new years. The beginning of the new year is a great time for the owners of small ecommerce businesses to take stock and note all they have accomplished the past 12 months. It’s also a great time to think about and set down in writing what they would like to accomplish in the next 6 to 12 months. While most (if not all) proprietors of ecommerce businesses probably have “make more money” and/or “grow the business” on their to-do lists, we wanted to get more specific. Here are their top five digital resolutions. 1. Increase mobile conversion rates. Amazon's losses to rise as it aims. Federal IT Investment Plans. United States government agencies will continue to invest hefty sums in cloud computing technology over the next five years. After that period, spending on cloud is likely to moderate, but the amount of investing will remain at impressive levels.
Cloud computing is far from mature within the federal government, but it has reached a point at which it is a mainstream component of government IT resources -- a development recently recognized in several forums. "Policy imperatives from the White House, legislative pressure from Congress, and mounting needs for innovation, agility and cost reduction have motivated agencies to expand their use of cloud solutions," said Alex Rossino, senior principal analyst at Deltek, in a federal information technology update last month.
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