News for the week of 23rd to 29th January, 2017

The Big Story For Entrepreneurs This Week

Amazon India to empower Naga women entrepreneurs Amazon India partnered with the Nagaland government and the National Skill Development Corp on 23rd January to provide women entrepreneurs in Nagaland a global platform to sell their products at zero initial cost.

National News

IIM-Indore hosted Central India’s first startup expo The first ever Central India startup expo iExpo 2017, was hosted by IIM-Indore on Sunday. The platform aimed to provide young entrepreneurs an opportunity to seek and learn from reputable minds of business world.

Entrepreneurship Summit hosted by IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) hosted its latest edition of the Entrepreneurship Summit on January 28-29. The event saw participation from over 500 startups and was attended by over 16,000 students from across the world.

States In The News

Bihar

Bihar Egg Sufficiency Campaign inaugurated in Patna | The centre inaugurated the Bihar Egg Sufficiency Campaign on the Bihar Vidyapeeth campus on 24th January, under which it would provide assistance to entrepreneurs who are interested in starting egg production units.

Gujarat

Exit barriers for MSMEs to be considered by EDII | As the number of sick micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have increased in Gujarat, the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) is working over the policy interventions with a view to counter the problem.