A major new initiative is focusing attention on an often-overlooked issue for Indian small businesses: insurance and business risk protection. On 7 October 2026, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Generali Central launched an Insurance Innovation Challenge aimed at finding and scaling innovative insurance solutions that can help Indian micro, small and medium enterprises
India’s startup ecosystem is moving beyond simply raising funding. Innovation, execution, profitability, resilience and the ability to build a scalable business are becoming equally important. That is why the ET Startup Awards 2026 are worth watching, especially for new entrepreneurs who want to understand what makes a startup stand out. The 12th edition of the
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Businesses expanding across India often face one frustrating part of GST registration: entering the same basic information repeatedly for different States and Union Territories. That process has now become simpler. From 1 October 2026, the GST Common Portal has introduced a Multi-State Registration facility that allows eligible taxpayers to initiate GST registration applications for multiple
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Inverted GST: I Experienced This While Exporting Tea GST sounds simple: you buy inputs, pay GST, claim Input Tax Credit (ITC) and use that credit against your output tax. But things can become complicated when the GST rate on your inputs is higher than the rate applicable to your output. I experienced this while exporting
You ordered more raw material than required. A customer cancelled an order. Production changed. Packaging was redesigned. Or your warehouse simply has stock that is no longer moving. Now you have a familiar MSME problem: What do you do with it? You could keep it, sell it cheaply as scrap, return it to the supplier
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Many small-business owners still think: “Hackers target big companies. My business is too small.” That assumption is becoming increasingly risky. Small businesses now depend on online banking, UPI, email, WhatsApp, cloud software, websites, payment gateways, accounting platforms, AI tools and digital marketplaces. That creates more opportunities for criminals. And the threat is changing quickly. Verizon’s
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₹207/kg. ₹12,000/kg. Two very different tea prices have recently emerged from Assam—and they reveal an interesting opportunity for Assam’s tea businesses. At the maiden Assam Chai Bazaar auction in Dibrugarh, CTC Leaf and CTC Dust recorded a combined average of around ₹207/kg. Around the same time, a 5-kg lot of Assam-made Pu’er tea from Gauripur
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An MSME can have a healthy order book, good customers and plenty of invoices — and still run short of cash. Why? Because sales are not the same as cash in the bank. A ₹10 lakh invoice may have been raised today, but if the buyer pays after 45 or 60 days, the MSME still
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Assam’s tea industry is seeing two important developments in September 2026. The Assam Chai Bazaar has conducted its maiden tea auction in Dibrugarh, bringing organised tea trading closer to one of the state’s major tea-producing regions. At the same time, the Assam Government has revised the Assam Tea Industries Special Incentives Scheme (ATISIS), 2020, with
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Want to export from India but don’t know which country to target, what tariff you will face or where to find overseas buyers? Before spending money on expensive market-research reports or randomly searching Google for foreign buyers, there is a government platform worth exploring. It is called Trade Connect ePlatform. Developed by the Directorate General
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