Focus: Indian Woman Becomes World Model Entrepreneur

GET FEATURED: By bringing startups and angel investors together on a single online platform and in a transparent manner, Shanti Mohan's LetsVenture has eliminated major pain-points for both Congratulations. You are the only Indian woman among the 18 finalists shortlisted from 1,700 applications globally for the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards (the award to be given in Paris later this year seeks to foster the spirit of enterprise by celebrating role models in entrepreneurship). 

INNLIVE interviewed the super Indian woman entrepreneur in a free-wheeling mode. Excerpts:

E-Retailing Boom In India - 'The Return Of Corner Stores'

INNLIVE Media Team

Startups are taking e-commerce to small towns by partnering with mom-and-pop stores to set up kiosks with product catalogues. Customers get the shopkeeper to order products they normally do not have access to. It's online shopping, offline.

At Nisha Textiles, a 1,200-sqft two-storeyed apparel store in Cherupuzha, a small town in Kannur district of north Kerala, a queue of customers waits for a turn to shop on a device in a kiosk. The kiosk has a catalogue of products, such as gadgets and apparel, which are not available in the town but the tech-savvy shopkeeper will order for them online.

Satire: Packet Of Potato Chips To Cost More As Quality Air, Its Vital Ingredient, Gets Costlier And Unavailable!

PepsiCo India issued notification about the increase in price which will affect consumers from July 1st. As Indian consumers have become more assertive after the Maggi episode, PepsiCo India spokesperson told us they cannot take any more chance by not highlighting what the packet contains.

We met company spokesperson  Ram Kumar later in the evening to know more about this. This reporter started asking if PepsiCo had not increased the price per pack over the years as the quantity of potato chips, which was 10% of the overall volume of the packet to start with, had come down to less than 3% now.

Actor Anil Kapoor On The Unpredictable World Of Showbiz, Why He's Willing To Take Risks At This Age Of Life?

By M H Ahssan
Group Editor in Chief

WEEKEND EXCLUSIVE: He has worked for over three decades in Bollywood but the only constant about him has been his ability to change. INNLIVE finds out what Anil Kapoor's key to survival is and how he strikes a balance between the jhakaas and the suave.

Suave as a personality trait does not naturally complement the street lingo “Jhakaas”. Peculiarly for over three decades in Bollywood now, the two unlikely notions have defined Anil Kapoor. You see him always impeccably turned out, not a stitch less than what may qualify as fashionably sophisticated. 

Yet Kapoor will not miss half a chance to wantonly engage in his trademark “Jhakaas” war cry at public functions and media meets, or break into a tapori dance as fans egg him on. 

Perhaps it has to do with his lack of starry image that lets him be the Jhakaas Gentleman he is.

A Mother Eats Portion Of Her Child's Head In West Bengal

By Swara Bose in Kolkata

In a bizarre incident, a woman in West Bengal's Malda district was allegedly caught eating the flesh of her four-year-old daughter after cutting off a portion of the skin of her head, police said.

A resident of Gopalpur village under Malda's English Bazar police station, 42-year-old Pramila Mondal was seen by her brother-in-law Dablu Mondal eating her daughter's flesh.

"Pramila's house is next to ours. When my husband entered her house, he could hear little Bharati's screams. She was sitting on her mother's lap crying as her mother ate her flesh. The scene was shocking beyond words. Her son Swarna was sleeping in the room at that time," said Falguni Mondal, Dablu's wife.

Satire: Indian Political Parties Request Lalit Modi To Stop Naming More Politicians On Humanitarian Grounds

While the Lalit Modi controversy has stretched beyond it’s ‘sell by’ date and has lost its shock value, Lalit Modi continues to be in extended power play mode and is showing no signs of cooling down. Day after day he is coming up with new names and proving acquaintance with big shots.

Wary of getting named in his tweets, a group of politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists and journalists have written to Lalit Modi appealing him not to mention their name on humanitarian grounds. Since the issue started when Sushma ji helped you on ‘Humanitarian’ grounds, it would be appropriate if you also consider our situations on same grounds, the group has allegedly pleaded to former IPL chief.

Rejoinder: KFC Says Bacteria In Fried Chicken Is A False Allegation, Challenges Indian Reports & Entities

The Indian unit of fast food chain KFC, owned by Yum Brands Inc (YUM.N), challenged the results of a test showing the presence of bacteria linked to food poisoning in a sample of its fried chicken, dismissing them as "false allegations". Earlier INNLIVE published the story in these columns and KFC management reacted as an impact and clarified in a rejoinder issued to media.

Food safety has hit headlines in India after government food safety inspectors found excess lead in packets of Nestle's Maggi instant noodles.

Keeping High Spirits For Future: Orphaned By Militancy, Kashmiri Youth Cracked IIT Struggles To Pay Fees

By Ahmed Wasif in Srinagar

Zahid Ahmad Qureshi was just two months old when his father was gunned down by suspected militants. When he needed his mother the most, she got remarried. Zahid was left in the lap of his old grandparents who despite facing extreme impoverishment sent him to school to study.

Twenty-one years later when he created history by cracking the prestigious IIT, luck again played truant with him. Despite getting the enviable rank of 89, Zahid is struggling to arrange his fee to secure his berth in the IIT. Unlike UP brothers, no one in Kashmir has turned up to help this militancy victim so far.