Indian Transport & Logistics
Lakshmi Ajay

Lakshmi Ajay

Associate Editor, STAT Media Group. She has previously worked with Ahmedabad Mirror, The Indian Express, Business Standard and The Times of India. Lakshmi can be reached at lakshmi@statmediagroup.com


As Krishi Udan 2.0 takes flight, expect bumpy ride ahead

4 Feb 2022 3:17 AM GMT
With the Indian government pledging to doubling the farmer’s income by 2022, the Krishi Udan 2.0 scheme is expected to facilitate and incentivize...

Close to $63 mn worth of pharma products get expired or destroyed annually in domestic market

21 Jan 2022 11:47 AM GMT
Close to 1.5% of medicines out of the $42 billion domestic pharma market either expire or have to be destroyed due to unfavourable conditions each...

Air cargo volumes at Cochin Airport grew by 17% in 2021

21 Jan 2022 11:34 AM GMT
First airport in the country to reinstate their UAE services in July and its air traffic movements have also managed to reach at par with that of the...

11 major logistics, supply chain, e-commerce trends that will shape 2022

17 Jan 2022 3:12 AM GMT
Professors Debjit Roy and Sandip Chakrabarti, who co-chair the IIMA Centre for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) speak to Lakshmi Ajay, ITLN, and...

Hyd University, DRL to develop blockchain IoT integrated cold chain logistics solutions for pharma

10 Jan 2022 11:25 AM GMT
The tech solution will address reconciliation of stock volumes, compliances, delays, lack of visibility among stakeholders and counterfeit drugs in...

‘We are looking at servicing a total of 3 crore customers with support from close to 15 lakh driver partners'

3 Jan 2022 4:53 AM GMT
Over the weekend, Lakshmi Ajay, ITLN virtually caught up with founders Pranav Goel, CEO, and Uttam Digga, COO of logistics marketplace Porter about...

‘Supply chains of the future will be digitally enabled, data-centric’- industry experts

12 Dec 2021 5:43 AM GMT
Leading industry domain experts concurred that supply chains of the future are going to be highly digitally enabled and that data is going to become...

Visibility a major challenge, cite leading Indian automotive logistics players

10 Dec 2021 8:21 AM GMT
Caught up in a ‘sequential crisis’ post the pandemic, leading automotive logistics players and OEMs attest to having found the road ahead by being...

Multi-tier visibility, digitalization way forward for auto industry in semiconductor crisis

10 Dec 2021 5:22 AM GMT
Industry leaders from the automotive sector bat for multi-tier visibility, localization, digitalization, and upskilling of teams as some of the key...

'Safety has to be in the design DNA'- affirm EV industry leaders at AutoSCM Summit

10 Dec 2021 3:53 AM GMT
While EV is an idea whose time has come, industry players deliberated on how safety needs to be the topmost priority for OEMs in this space. With the...

“Our vision is to make Bangalore Airport a cargo hub”

16 Nov 2021 11:53 AM GMT
In an exclusive chat with Lakshmi Ajay from ITLN, Satyaki Raghunath, the chief strategy and development officer at BIAL unpacks how these vital...

Clean mobility, e-comm get a leg up with new offering from EV brand Boom Motors

11 Nov 2021 12:44 PM GMT
With the launch of its moto-scooters Corbett 14, the EV start-up has been seeing strong demand from the B2B segment, especially from the vehicle...
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