Almost half of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) surveyed across India prefer UPI as their main way to handle transactions and grow their business, a new report by PayNearby has revealed. The MSME Digital Index Report found that 48% of respondents chose UPI as their most preferred payment method, followed by Aadhaar-enabled banking…
Once, hiring young graduates was the smartest investment a company could make. They brought fresh perspectives, adaptability, and a long runway for growth—all at a manageable cost. Entry-level roles were not just about cheap labor; they were the training ground where tomorrow’s leaders were built. Today, that foundation is crumbling—not because there’s no work, but…
NEW DELHI: Seven trade activities – eateries, hotels/motels/guesthouses, discotheques, amusement parks, auditoriums, swimming pools and video games parlours – will no longer require police licences to open and operate in the national capital.In a major policy shift aimed at cutting red tape and promoting ease of business, lieutenant governor V K Saxena has withdrawn the…
CEO Byju Raveendran in interview with ANI NEW DELHI: In his first extensive pubsince Byju’s came under intense scrutiny, founder and CEO Byju Raveendran has laid out a renewed vision for the embattled ed-tech company- “Byju’s 3.0”- with a sharp focus on returning to its roots: empowering teachers, prioritizing students as he explained on why…
Amid a steady stream of new trade policies in President Trump’s first three months in office, there is one that Andy Musliner, who owns a small toy business in Maryland, can get behind. That’s the ending of a duty-free loophole for cheap goods from China. Mr. Trump this month scrapped a provision that had allowed…
Boeing on Tuesday announced that it would sell a handful of navigation, flight planning and other businesses for more than $10.5 billion as the company works to refocus on manufacturing planes and other aircraft. The company, which also wants to reduce its large debt, said it would sell four businesses from a digital unit to…
The 25 percent tariff Canada began collecting on cars and trucks imported from the United States early Wednesday is not just the country’s latest act of retaliation against tariffs imposed by President Trump on Canadian exports. The estimated 8 billion Canadian dollars a year, about $5.7 billion, that those levies are expected to generate will…
It was a bad week for Ben Coryell, who runs a wilderness guiding company in Golden, Colo. He got several calls from customers who wanted to cancel their climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions over the summer, often citing second thoughts about big purchases as the Trump administration has thrown the economy into turmoil with eye-watering…
After 142 years in the business of milling and packaging rice and rice flour, Dainty Foods was on a roll. A surge in demand for precooked and flavored rice made for microwaving had suddenly lifted the fortunes of Canada’s only rice mill. The company was already modernizing its factory in Windsor, Ontario, and had plans…
It’s not clear who will benefit if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on all wines and alcoholic beverages from the European Union, but it certainly would not be American consumers. The tariff warning was posted by Mr. Trump on social media Thursday in retaliation to 50 percent tariffs…