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Online retail sales meagre in India: WB Report

Small and medium enterprises in the region reported that removing regulatory and logistical challenges to e-commerce would increase their exports, employment, and productivity by as much as 20-30 percent. To overcome these hurdles, the report proposes reforms in areas such as payments, delivery, market access regulations, consumer protection, and data privacy, at the national, regional, and global levels

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Govt reforms will make India a very competitive, efficient economy: Kant

India has gone digital. That’s the biggest transformation that has taken place.As a result, India has become hugely data-rich, even before it has become rich. This data richness of India has led to over 1,000 startups working in learnings, artificial intelligence and they are doing the kind of disruption that the world has never seen before. Many of them are doing pathbreaking work,” Kant told

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Porsche bets rich Indians will pay to show off electric cars

Porsche, which sells 350-450 cars a year in India, is looking for a boost to those figures when it launches its new Cayenne Coupe on Friday, followed by the Taycan by July. It unveiled the latter in China, Germany and Niagara Falls in September, with a starting price outside India of $150,900 and a potential base version costing below $100,000. That underscores the model’s central role in parent Volkswagen AG‘s push to become a leader in battery-powered vehicles.

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Rs382 cr collected as fine for violation of pollution norms since 2017: CPCB

The CPCB, which works under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, is responsible for advising the central government on prevention and control of water and air pollution. It is also responsible for coordinating the activities of the state pollution control boards and resolving disputes among them, besidesplaying other roles.

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