Amazon to open a new fulfillment centre in Telangana Amazon Seller Services Pvt Ltd (ASSPL) opened a new fulfillmet centre in the state of Telangana near Kottur on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The new fulfillment centre will be operational by May 2015 and is spread over 280,000 sqaure feet. With this, Amazon will have 11 fulfillment centres operational across nine states in India covering a total of over one million square feet space with a storage capacity of over 2.5 million cubic feet. The fulfillment centre will allow Amazon.in to offer its Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) service to thousands of small and medium businesses in the state and empower them to gain access to and service customers across the country at significantly low operating costs. Ola launches programme to train 50,000 women drivers Online cab booking service Ola has tied up with the Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC) to train 50,000 women drivers over the next three years and help them turn into entrepreneurs on Ola's platform. The joint memorandum of understanding will involve Ola, Empower Pragati and ASDC by identifying women from various sections of the society and up-skilling them. The program will focus on supporting entrepreneurship, workforce skill development training and computer literacy giving women driver partners and will be rolled out initially in Delhi, followed by major cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune spanning into cities across India in the next few months. Ola,as a technology platform will help create opportunities for these trained drivers by giving them access to infrastructure,…
