SMBs are an important vertical for Dell’s growth and even the India business relies a great deal on the segment to bring in the numbers. YourStory caught up with P Krishnakumar(KK), executive director & GM, consumer & small business, Dell India, to understand the plans and ambitions the MNC has from the space. Excerpts.
As the noise around Union Budget 2013 increases, everyone is getting their wishlist out. The finance minister of India will be the most sought after person for the next few days. Most thought leaders and industry bigwigs want the budget to rein in inflation, provide for tax regimes and put the economy back on a [...] Read More
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development is accepting entries for the NABARD Award for 2012 which aims to recognize individuals and organizations in the rural innovation sector. Who can apply: Categories: The Innovation can be a product / service / project / process / procedure / methodology developed for the rural sector by the [...] Read More
Are you an innovator? IKP Knowledge Park (IKP) in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched IKP-Grand Challenges Explorations (IKP-GCE) to identify, fund and nurture revolutionary ideas that address global health challenges. The goal of the IKP-GCE program is to empower Ideas – ideas that will create new drugs, diagnostics, devices, vaccines, delivery systems and service models that can be made [...] Read More
There has always been a debate on whether patenting is beneficial or harmful to the Society and the masses in general. While one can always analyse realms of data to argue either sides, what is most important is to look at “evidence on the ground” and decide whether Patenting is indeed beneficial and under what [...] Read More
Banihalli, a village 80 kilometres from Bangalore, a group of farmers gather in a courtyard and discuss worm composting after watching a video of the process. Since the video features a fellow villager, who has shot it, the farmers are able to connect with the message. “This way the farmers easily identify with the specific [...] Read More
The main part of Mr. Bhise’s implement is the front portion of a bicycle, namely handlebar, front axle and the wheel. A steel fork is connected to the axle and the other end carries different kinds of attachments. Separate attachments for weeding, tilling and harrowing are attached to the working end, using bolts and nuts. [...] Read More
Mrs. S. Saradhamani is a progressive lady farmer of Perianiackenpalayam village in Coimbatore District. With hardly 2-3 acres, Saradhamani has been successfully integrating goat, cattle rearing, vermicompost manufacturing and growing a number of crop varieties such as sunflower, vegetables and high yielding fodder grass varieties. A goat shed was constructed on her farm with financial [...] Read More
Innovates to Make Agriculture easy “IT IS a fallacy to think that innovation is a high-end activity that takes place only in sophisticated laboratories. “Innovation encompasses technological innovation, a fresh way of management or a different way of doing the same task, but which would result in better performance,” said Smt Pratibha Patil, President of [...] Read More
First rural financial institution to receive cooperative bank license The women of Mann Deshi Mahila in India’s rural North Karnataka district have just introduced another innovation in a series of self-help initiatives that began in 1997 with the creation of the first rural financial institution in India to receive a cooperative banking license. They have [...] Read More
