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Easier for Global Indians to buy property in India

2018-12-04T10:45:45+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Wealth, Year|

The over 1.5 million Global Indians in the UK are among the most prolific investors in India’s real estate space. Srividya Rajan, General Manager, Corporate Sales & Brand Engagement, Sumansa Exhibitions, gives some key pointers on investing in India to coincide with the annual Indian Property Show in London in April 2016. Cities to invest in In terms of the most preferred city, according to a study conducted by Sumansa Exhibitions, Mumbai has topped the charts followed by Delhi, Bangalore, [...]

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    Getting more social with the media

    2018-12-04T10:46:50+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

    @PiyushGoyal is among India’s most active ministers on the social media circuit. The minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy says he wants to have an app for just about everything his ministry can be held accountable for. We explore what drives this media buzz. He has often been described as one of the most energetic ministers in the Narendra Modi Cabinet for his uncanny ability to meet renewable energy targets before time. Piyush Goyal recently announced that the [...]

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    Big data can transform India’s life sciences sector

    2020-03-06T11:08:23+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

    Genomics 3.0 has the potential to put India at forefront of precision medicine and personalised cancer treatment. Moves to see how healthcare for global Indians can be enhanced by understanding the unique genetic signature of Indians holds the key. Earlier this year, I wrote a piece on how technology and knowledge were the key to delivering rural healthcare. One of the areas in which technology and big data is going play an important part in India is in genomics, and [...]

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    Editor’s Note

    2020-03-12T08:41:01+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, Editor's Note, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Year|

    We are by now familiar with some of the headline ambitions of the Narendra Modi led government – driving India towards a $10 trillion economy mark by 2032; 175 GW of renewable energy capacity covering solar, wind, hydro and biomass by 2022; and cutting carbon emissions from India by at least 35 per cent by 2030. The crucial factor in ensuring these targets remain within reach is the country’s massive infrastructure challenge. And the man charged with this task is [...]

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      Swachh Bharat Mission brings a sense of urgency

      2018-12-04T10:48:39+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, Clean India, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Year|

      The United Nations (UN) estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world lack access to adequate sanitation of whom 526 million defecate in the open. Chris Williams from the UN’s Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) gives us the India perspective on funding models that tie in with the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. What are some key WSSCC milestones in India? WSSCC has had a long and deep connection with India since the meeting 25 years ago in New Delhi, [...]

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      Tech solutions make Indian cities smarter

      2018-12-04T10:57:03+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

      The Narendra Modi led government’s smart cities initiative is well on its way with the first 20 short-listed for facelift. Crucially, the use of technology and innovation is the booster shot for the smart cities initiative to dove-tail other government initiatives. Technically speaking, the Narendra Modi government’s UJALA scheme – aimed at bringing down electricity demand by replacing inefficient incandescent and CFL bulbs with LED lamps – isn’t part of the Smart Cities initiative. But it’s a smart solution to [...]

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      E stands for Ecommerce in India today

      2020-03-12T14:12:28+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

      India has emerged as the fastest growing ecommerce market in the world by all estimates. This decade of the 21st century is well on its course to be dubbed the ecommerce decade and the government’s Digital India programme will be the guiding light. Just look at the array of goods and services Indians buy online – from proposals for arranged marriages to home delivered restaurant meals to clothes, shoes, jewellery, mobile phones, laptops and even property. And that’s just an [...]

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      How ‘Green & Clean’ translates into big bucks for India

      2018-12-04T10:57:55+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, Clean India, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Year|

      The Clean India initiative goes far beyond its social remit into a business opportunity, for Indian and overseas companies alike. With the full weight of the government behind cleaner, greener infrastructure, there is no better time to invest in this sector. Internationally, green is considered the colour of money because the US dollar, the most widely used currency in the world, is green.  The Indian rupee is not green by any stretch of imagination but green could soon mean big [...]

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      India’s infrastructure on a slow, yet steady road

      2020-03-12T08:13:44+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Policy/Infrastructure, Year|

      India needs $1 trillion in investments over the next five years to upgrade its creaking infrastructure to global standards but a combination of unfavourable market conditions, weak commodity prices, inability of Indian banks to lend large sums of money, poor raw material linkages and lack of urgency at the level of state governments have conspired to make the task even more difficult than it otherwise would have been. The “directional framework” released by government think tank Niti Aayog last year [...]

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      Happening Haryana

      2018-12-04T10:58:35+00:00April 27th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Policy/Infrastructure, Year|

        Haryana made an all-out play for global investment with its first Happening Haryana summit in March 2016. The success of the event led to plans for a second summit in 2018. But, meanwhile, the state hopes to translate the hundreds of MoUs signed into action on the ground. During the summit, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and other government ministers pledged proactive support to ensure extensive infrastructural, industrial and socio-economic development in the state. Finance minister Arun Jaitley [...]

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