The Government is soon going to set up a single window system for clearances and approvals for industries in the country. This is proposed to be a genuine single window and all the concerned state governments and Central ministries are being taken on board for the system.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday said it supports over six lakh artisans, weavers and craftsmen across the country through its Samarth programme and is working on onboarding more such sellers to the platform. The programme was launched last year in partnership with five NGOs.

DST Global, the investment firm headed by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner, is close to investing as much as $400 million in Indian online education startup Byju’s. The deal values Byju’s at $10.5 billion and could be signed this month. The transaction would make Byju’s India’s second-most valuable startup.

The electric vehicle (EV) market is likely to be a Rs. 50,000-crore opportunity in India by 2025, with two- and three-wheelers expected to drive higher electrification of the vehicles in the medium term in the wake of Covid-19, according to a report by Avendus Capital.

India and the Maldives have signed a contract to set up fish processing plants at two of the islands in the Maldives. The Addu City Council will be the implementing agency for these projects. The contract for construction of the fish processing plant in Hithadoo was awarded by Addu City Council in May this year.

A total of 43,022 health and wellness centres have become operational in different parts of the country to ensure that an array of healthcare facilities reaches the people, the Union Health Ministry has said. A total of 43,022 HWCs are now operational across different parts of the country, it said.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), along with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, is in discussion with the Indian government for part-financing a $8-billion scheme for improving the health infrastructure at the district level to make the country better prepared for future healthcare challenges.

Industry body ICEA, which represents top mobile phone makers like Apple, Foxconn, Wistron, and Lava, on Saturday said companies have committed investments worth Rs 11,000 crore under the PLI scheme and they will surpass manufacturing estimates by 2 to 2.5 times.

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a Singapore-based NGO, plans to invest between $70 million and $100 million in India over the next five years to reduce plastic waste. India generates around 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, over 10,000 tonnes of which is not collected.