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A tech provider’s journey with Digital India

A tech provider’s journey with Digital India

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T11:08:58+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, TechInnovate, Year|

Lyn Duncan, chief Executive and co-founder of cloudBuy plc, takes a journey down memory lane to trace the explosion in the Indian ecommerce sector and what it has meant for their model aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs). How has cloudBuy grown in India since its launch? We opened our first Indian office in Jodhpur almost four years ago in 2012, originally to act as a back office for design and development but also to test the appetite [...]

A marketplace for clean, green energy

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:56:36+00:00April 28th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal April/May Edition, Solar India, Year|

Clickpower.in, an initiative of REConnect Energy, describes itself as a vision to help every electricity consumer in India source cheaper and cleaner power while simultaneously helping renewable energy generators discover larger consumer markets through a web-based marketplace. Its founder lays out the stage for his renewable energy agenda. REConnect Energy is India's largest renewable energy (RE) services and sourcing firm. Between renewable energy credits (REC) and forecasting and scheduling of wind/solar power (F&S), the firm is serving about 13,000 MW [...]

Easier for Global Indians to buy property in India

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:45:45+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, [...]

Getting more social with the media

Getting more social with the media

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:46:50+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 [...]

Big data can transform India’s life sciences sector

India Inc. Staff2020-03-06T11:08:23+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 [...]

Tech solutions make Indian cities smarter

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:57:03+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 [...]

E stands for Ecommerce in India today

India Inc. Staff2020-03-12T14:12:28+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 [...]

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

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:57:55+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 [...]

India’s infrastructure on a slow, yet steady road

India Inc. Staff2020-03-12T08:13:44+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 [...]

Happening Haryana

India Inc. Staff2018-12-04T10:58:35+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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