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A seven-year-old Indian startup has achieved profitability by taking the rather unconventional route of operating from an unusual location and staying away from venture capital funding.

India’s e-commerce websites are getting crowded, and the biggest chunk of new shoppers are coming from the country’s smaller cities.

While finance minister Arun Jaitley did not grant most of the wishes that the Indian startup community had, budget 2018 is not all bad news for entrepreneurs.

Climate change is taking a toll on India’s agricultural productivity—and farmers’ incomes—the economic survey 2018 shows.

Rooftop solar may have been the fastest-growing segment within India’s renewable energy sector last year, but it is still not growing fast enough.

American whistleblower and former Central Intelligence Agency employee Edward Snowden has joined the campaign against Aadhaar, India’s 12-digit unique identification number programme that has been under fire for its security and privacy systems.

India is home to over 20,000 startups, but few are even aware of the benefits of the government’s ambitious Startup India programme.

The Indian government is undermining its own grand plans for the country’s solar power sector.

Indians with full-time jobs may be struggling to retain their positions or find new ones, but freelancers in Asia’s third-largest economy seem to be on a roll.

Young, tech-savvy millennials are among the most sought after hires at India’s companies, but many of these job-seekers don’t feel ready yet. Be it strong industry and domain knowledge or the ability to work long hours, young graduates aren’t yet prepared for professional life, a survey by job-search portal Monster.com shows.

What does it take to turn profitable in India’s online fashion retail business? For five-year-old Voonik, it was all about tamping down on shipping and marketing costs.

The Indian solar power sector is off to a good start in 2018. After months of a dry pipeline, the industry now has over 4,000 megawatts (MW) of projects that it can bid for and execute across the country.

One of India’s leading online lingerie retailers is all set to pivot its business with a round of fresh funding.

Grocery delivery is touted as the next big thing in Indian online retail, and e-commerce majors like Amazon and Flipkart have been obsessing over it lately.

Layoffs and hiring freezes in Indian IT are likely to continue in 2018, but it’s not as hopeless as it seems.

After a record addition of solar plants and wind farms across India last year, 2017 has been something of a damp squib for the country’s clean energy sector.

Get over the sunshine. Wind is now the cheapest source of renewable energy in India.

India’s largest homegrown e-commerce giant, Flipkart, is making a big push for artificial intelligence (AI).

Indians are in dire need of a vacation!

Despite the government’s efforts to ensure ease of doing business, entrepreneurs in India believe corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies are the biggest hurdles to growing their businesses.

The “moonshot factory” of Alphabet, the tech giant that owns Google, is bringing a wireless internet technology it tested in the stratosphere to connect rural areas in India’s Andhra Pradesh state.

Indians continued to display their love for cinema and cricket on Google Search in 2017, but with a twist.

Management graduates from India’s second-rung business schools are struggling to find jobs.