Modi lays out a post pandemic exit strategy

    2020-05-11T04:50:18+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

    Editorial As India fights the virus with vigour, PM Modi has also urged his ministers to plan for the future and mark out areas of priority and reform. Pro-active and pre-emptive. These are the two operative strategies in play when assessing the performance of global leaders currently battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stamped out his credentials as a visionary. Demonstrably agile and adaptive to the current crisis, PM Modi has also set out [...]

      Can Rishi Sunak harness the disruption?

      2020-05-11T04:08:54+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

      Editorial His recent budget announcement featured several impactful measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, catapulted to the top job in No 11 Downing Street just weeks before, is in an unenviable position of having to wade through the biggest health and economic crisis of our time. But Rishi Sunak has shown the kind of mettle one would expect from someone on the frontline of a war against an invisible enemy. The war against Covid-19, [...]

        Global cooperation needed to combat COVID-19

        2020-05-11T04:08:33+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

        Editorial The COVID-19 pandemic will entail a huge cost to the global economy and could set back the nascent recovery witnessed in some parts of the world. The world is currently in a Covid-19 lockdown mode. The UK, among the world’s last holdouts, joined much of the rest of the world when Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered a strict nationwide lockdown – to be enforced by the police. A couple of days earlier, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi [...]

          Bet on Indian stocks for long-term returns

          2020-05-11T04:08:39+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

          Editorial While foreign investors exhibit concerns over Indian shares, experts advice that is it an ideal time to bet on debt-free companies for gains in the next three-five years. The panic over the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic has extended to the Indian stock markets, which saw the selling of massive volumes of shares by foreign investors. There are also several other factors behind this sell-off – the weak consumption demand and investment rate in India, the continuing banking [...]