LocalCircles

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Feb 26, 2026	California Pistachios Spotlight Everyday Protein on World Pistachio Day as India's Mindful Snacking Shift Accelerates	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India As India’s snacking culture evolves from indulgent to intentional, California Pistachios is marking World Pistachio Day by spotlighting pistachios as a fun and accessible solution for incorporating more protein in...
Oct 24, 2025	How Will the GST Tax Reforms Affect the Common Man?	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been a game-changer in India’s taxation system since its rollout in 2017. After almost two decades of deliberation and planning, the country adopted a unified tax structure ai...
Dec 8, 2024	66% businesses surveyed paid a bribe in the last 12 months: Report	Around 66 per cent of business firms surveyed across 159 districts admitted that they paid bribes in the last 12 months, a report by online platform LocalCricles said on Sunday. The survey, which received 18,000 responses, found that 54 per...
Apr 10, 2024	Subscription traps to hidden charges: Dark patterns are plaguing the UPI boom	Digital payments through downloaded apps have now become a part of day-to-day lives of Indians. From paying wayside vendors to making purchases at the local stores to recharging phones, booking tickets, millions use UPI (Unified Payments In...
Mar 15, 2024	'53% consumers did not receive refund for inherently defective products'	More than half of Indian consumers did not receive any replacement or refund for inherently defective high-value products they owned in the last five years, according to a new survey released on Friday. The survey, conducted by LocalCircles...
Sep 25, 2023	Playbook for handling Angel Tax and Section 68 tax notices	The linkage of Section 68 (unexplained cash credits) to Angel Tax has added a new dimension. Angel Tax (Section 56(2)(viib)) has long been the bane of the Indian startup ecosystem. A Local Circles and IVCA report from 2019 has put the numbe...
Jun 8, 2023	After Twitterati scream foul about pesky calls, RBI says 'will look into it'	Advertisement Sanjiv Bajaj, the chairman of Bajaj Finserv has said that his company will come out with a ‘right to be forgotten’ feature for users who want to opt out of its marketing calls. RBI deputy governor when asked said on Thursday t...
Jul 18, 2022	Adani Wilmar cuts Fortune oil’s price for the second time, by ₹20	High edible oil prices have been impacting all consumers and low-income households have been bearing the brunt of it. A big chunk of consumer income on essential items, especially on edible oils, whose prices have increased 50-70% more than...
Jun 8, 2022	A survey suggests that 2 out 3 Indians are facing digital payment issues due to poor network connectivity	Two out of three Indians face issues while making digital payments due to poor network connectivity. Overall, 9 out of 10 users in India have reported network connectivity issues. However, on the whole, average internet usage in India has i...
Mar 25, 2022	[Update] Metrology Department Serves Notice To Ecommerce Unicorn Meesho Over Alleged Non-Compliance	Update \| 25th March, 3:40 PM After Inc42 reported on the matter, Meesho has said that it has seen the notice, and has denied that the notice is about the issue of ‘country of origin’. “Meesho is a law-abiding company and is committed to com...
Jan 18, 2021	WhatsApp Privacy Policy debacle: Only 18 percent users willing to continue using the app	WhatsApp is under fire for its new Privacy Policy which enlists sharing of user data with parent company Facebook. The messaging app initially announced February 8, 2021, will be the deadline for users to accept the policy, though it was la...
Jan 15, 2021	India is Witnessing a Crisis of Trust in its COVID Vaccines	Last month, a former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh tweeted an efficacy comparison between UK’s Moderna vaccine, and the two vaccines being rolled out in India (developed by AstraZeneca-Oxford and Bharat Biotech). Moderna was placed at 94...
May 14, 2020	45% support stringent lockdown to continue in the 14 high virus load districts: Survey	While the government is getting ready to make public the details of lockdown 4.0 which will kick in from May 18, social media platform LocalCircles conducted a survey asking people how the lockdown should continue. According to the findings...
May 11, 2020	Consumers prefer convenience over price and choice when ordering groceries online: Survey	Consumers preferred convenience over price and choice while ordering groceries online during the lockdown, a survey conducted by social media and community platform LocalCircles had found. The survey shows that around 80% of respondents pre...
Apr 27, 2020	Survey finds 27% startups and SMEs already out of funds	The ongoing COVID-19 lockdown has impacted all businesses, including startups and small and medium enterprises or SMEs, with less cash on hand are being hit hard. While sources of revenue for most have nearly dried up, the challenge to surv...
Apr 27, 2020	COVID-19 impact \| 47% Indian startups, SMEs left with less than 1 month of cash, many out of funds already	Representative image Indian startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are among the worst-hit by the sudden halt in economic activities during the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. Over 80 percent of startups and...
Mar 11, 2020	Startups and small firms hire fewer or no women to save on maternity costs	While the world marked International Women’s Day on March 8 with events, functions, and posts on social media acknowledging and celebrating the equal role of women in all spheres, a recent survey has found that 49% of Indian startups or sma...
Jan 3, 2019	Only 18% startups claim to have benefited from Startup India scheme	If you think the last couple of years were best for startups in the country. Then you may need to think again as a new survey by LocalCircles reveals the exact opposite thing about startups growth in India. According to the report, the curr...
Nov 5, 2018	Flipkart, Paytm Mall and Snapdeal among top e-tailers selling fake goods: Survey	E-commerce sites Snapdeal, Flipkart and Paytm Mall are among top e-tailers who sell counterfeit products, according to a survey conducted by LocalCircles. Around 37 per cent of the respondents took the name of Snapdeal while 22 per cent bla...
Dec 10, 2015	India: Industrialist Anand Mahindra invests in social medial platform LocalCircles	Premium Delhi-based LocalCircles, a community-based social media platform, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, according to a statement. Continue reading this story with a subscription to...
Feb 3, 2014	Facebook is 10 years old, but social media is just getting started on changing the world	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! When Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched the...
	IVCA, LocalCircles Start Survey To Find Startups Served With Angel Tax Notices	A survey aimed to assist the policymakers to resolve the much-debated Angel Tax issue has begun. Led by Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and online citizen engagement platform Local Circles, the initiative is inv...
	Majority Of Indians Want Centre to Regulate Edtech Sector: Survey	Ineffectiveness of teaching staff, inadequate tech infrastructure and poor refund policies are some of the major problems being faced with edtech platforms The survey said many respondents wanted the Centre to intervene and ensure that edte...
	Data Localisation, Sharing Norms Will Harm Biz, Say Stakeholders	The approval of the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, which aims at ensuring the protection of personal data and sensitive personal data, has garnered a lot of praise as well as criticism. To understand the challenges which this bill pos...
	Zomato Revives The ‘Period Leave’ Debate But Will It Worsen Gender Diversity?	Last Saturday (August 8), Zomato announced that all women and transgender employees would get 10 “period leaves” in a year. While this is a welcome move in many ways, there are also questions about the expectations being set by Zomato for t...
	Flipkart Takes Action Against Supplier, Employee Over Fraud	Indian ecommerce company, Flipkart has filed a criminal complaint against one its employee and one of its major suppliers, MRPL, over allegations of cheating, fraud, forgery, and breach of trust, ET tech reported. According to the complaint...

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What has the press written about LocalCircles?

Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning LocalCircles, among them “California Pistachios Spotlight Everyday Protein on World Pistachio Day as India's Mindful Snacking Shift Accelerates” (Feb 26, 2026) and “How Will the GST Tax Reforms Affect the Common Man?” (Oct 24, 2025).

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Yes, LocalCircles is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 15, 2026.