Hours after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council decided to impose a 28 per cent tax on the turnover of online gaming companies, former BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover expressed his displeasure at the move which he said will murder the gaming industry.

Among them, 9 talented individuals showcased their innovative ideas, and 3 exceptional startups have been selected to receive comprehensive support from Startup Odisha to propel them to the next level.

The preschool equips its young learners with the skills and mindset required to flourish in a fastchanging environment by adopting the entrepreneurial mindset from an early age. With this forwardthinking strategy, Bengaluru is establishing the basis for a future generation of inventive thinkers and successful businesses.

Spacetech startups are increasingly relying on the ISRO for hiring grey-haired grey cells, both on a full-time basis and for consultant roles, given the expertise that the deeptech category requires. A spokesperson of the space agency confirmed the development to ET.

Even as the government is keen to position India as a manufacturing hub, hardware or deep tech startups, as they are generally referred to, tend to face several challenges hampering their growth and the development of the ecosystem.

The Indian startup ecosystem is now the third largest in the world. While startup success stories are often celebrated, investors and founders must recognise that 90% of startups fail, with almost 70% failing between the second and fifth years of their operations.

Jito Angel Network is a community-based early-stage angel network that invests from pre-seed to pre-series-A rounds of companies. Two months back, it participated in the Rs855,588 pre-Series A funding round of deeptech startup Heliware.

E-commerce startup Dukaan has replaced 90 per cent of its customer support team with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, founder and CEO Suumit Shah informed on Tuesday. Attributing the decision to prioritising profitability, he said customer support costs reduced by 85 per cent while resolution time went down from over two hours to three minutes.