At IIT Mandi, 27 students have received stipends of Rs 1 lakh or more this year. In Bengaluru, RV College of Engineering has seen 39 students getting over Rs 1 lakh in monthly stipends compared to 8 last year. Around 30 students at Vellore Institute of Technology have also bagged Rs 1-lakh stipends, with companies like Couchbase and Amazon offering Rs 1.2 lakh and Rs 1.1 lakh, respectively.
In Bengaluru, houses in the Billionaires Street (Koramangala), Epsilon Villas or Adarsh Palm Retreat (APR) are owned by the likes of Sachin and Binny Bansal, Flipkart cofounders, and its CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy along with a few Infosys co-founders and the Raveendrans. The owners of several new-age firms such as Unacademy s Gaurav Munjal, PhonePe s Sameer Nigam, Meesho s Vidit Aatrey, the Zetwerk founders dot the palm tree and Mercedes-lined APR. India s CTO Nandan Nilekani, Wipro owners - the Premjis, and Rahul Dravid also own homes in Koramangala, where property rates have already built a formidable moat of exclusivity.
As the lander of Indias Chandrayaan-3 mission touched down on the lunar surface at around 6:04 pm on Wednesday, India entered the elite club of countries that have successfully landed on the moon. The Indian Space Research Organisations (ISRO) second attempt at the landing was successful, making India the first country to land on the satellites south pole, and light up the dark side of the moon. This and more in todays ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Softbank-backed e-commerce platform Meesho turned profitability in July due to a significant rise in its revenue and order volumes. CEO Vidit Aatrey took to social media to share a note.
Vidit Aatrey, the co-founder and CEO of Meesho, has an inspiring story, taking his small venture to become a prominent player in India's e-commerce industry.