Turmoil at Byju’s highlights hurdles for India startup scene

Turmoil at Byju’s highlights hurdles for India startup scene

NEW DELHI: Even as India is being hailed as the next global growth story, a crucial building block for that success — its startup ecosystem — is getting pummeled.Already stuck in a 15-month funding slump, India’s young companies are in danger of becoming collateral damage to the country’s highest-profile startup crisis in years. Byju’s, India’s […]

H-1B rejects is turning India into a new land of opportunity

H-1B rejects is turning India into a new land of opportunity

In 2014, Gaurang Poddar landed a job at Ernst & Young (EY) in New York after graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from Carnegie Mellon University. Then the H-1B visa ground him down. The uncertainty in the timeline of securing the much sought-after visa and the procedural delays eventually forced him […]