India, Sept. 19 -- We bring to you the latest edition of movers and shakers of the week in the Indian startup ecosystem.

This week, ecommerce platform Flipkart on Tuesday (September 15) said that it will create 70,000 direct jobs and lakhs of indirect seasonal employment roles ahead of its Big Billion Days sale.

Flipkart's supply chain ecosystem has brought in new employment opportunities including jobs of delivery executives, pickers, packers, and sorters whereas the contractual hires will be at seller partner locations and kiranas.

Flipkart is also targetting job creation in ancillary industries including vendor locations, and freight partners.

As part of its plan, Flipkart has onboarded more than 50,000 kirana stores for the festiv...