Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (DMIMS deemed university) recently organised a special session on entrepreneurship for women students, aimed at improving awareness and empowering them to pursue business ventures.…
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India falls to 112th rank in global gender gap index by World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report, published on Tuesday, showed that India has fallen by four places, from its 108th position, to rank 112th on the global gender gap…
Women entrepreneurship programme kicks off in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh
A three-day-long women entrepreneurship development programme was launched in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district on Wednesday. The programme has been organised by the Department of Industries, Tawang, and is being conducted…
GAME publishes detailed study on women entrepreneurship in India
A comprehensive study was recently published by Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), on entrepreneurship opportunities for women in India, especially home-based entrepreneurs across urban India. GAME, a partner-led platform…
Indian Women Network holds women entrepreneurship conference in Bhopal
A conference for women entrepreneurs was held on December 14th in Madhya Pradesh, with the theme, ‘Women in Business: #Bringing Change’. The conference was organised by the Indian Women Network (IWN)…
Punjab govt announces Rs 100-cr MSME marketing cell to promote startups
The two-day long Progressive Punjab Investors Summit-2019 reached its conclusion on Friday, with a bright future for the state’s industrial sector. The state government announced that it would take several…
Number of women on boards of Indian companies doubles, but still negligible
According to a study of the Bloomberg data on the gender composition of boards of 91 companies on the BSE-100 index, the median number of women on Indian boards has…
First-ever National Startup Awards 2020 launched by DPIIT
With the goal of encouraging and supporting innovation and disruption in the Indian startup ecosystem, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), on Friday, invited applications for…
Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) launches Women Entrepreneurship Cell
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has launched a new initiative to mentor students from an institute in West Bengal, with the aim of creating a new line…
BDC Study shows more than one-fourth of Canadian entrepreneurs are women
A new report published by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) states that women make up 28 per cent of all entrepreneurs in the country. According to the study,…