India’s New Digital Portal Attempts to Migrate all Government Purchases Online: Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to move all government purchases to an Amazon-like online portal, which has already had transactions worth Rs 39 crore since it began in August.
Dharavi is known for being Mumbai’s biggest slum. But it’s also Mumbai’s largest informal special economic zone, the biggest melting pot of cultures and the biggest unstructured township in Mumbai. Clearly, Dharavi is a brand known for many things and Megha Gupta, the 29-year- old founder of Dharavimarket.com has set out to promote Dharavi in…
The government has dropped the idea of defining the term marketplace, casting a cloud over the model widely used by e-commerce companies to circumvent foreign investment rules. Marketplaces are websites that connect buyers to sellers, offering services such as warehousing, logistics and payments. There is no definition of an online marketplace under current FDI (foreign…