Warm but awaiting new direction

    2023-05-11T11:21:38+00:00November 18th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal November Edition, India-UK, Year|

    India’s relations with the UK are deep and friendly. But the much expected impetus to closer ties will have to wait till clarity emerges on London’s divorce with Brussels. The rhetoric remains as warm as ever. But the visit of British Prime Minister Theresa May to India in early November, her first official visit as British leader outside Europe, did little to take the relationship forward from an apparent post-Brexit pause that has puzzled most analysts and foreign policy experts. [...]

      British PM makes underwhelming visit to India

      2023-05-11T11:22:44+00:00November 17th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal November Edition, India-UK, Year|

      It was billed as a clear signal of a very special relationship that Theresa May had chosen India as her first major bilateral visit outside Europe since taking charge as British Prime Minister. However, if she thought that trade and investment talks can be divorced from concerns over the UK’s ever tightening visa regime, she was in for a surprise. Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to India between November 6 and 8 resulted in deals worth around £1.2 billion. The [...]

        Brexit or no Brexit, India-UK ties on upward path

        2018-12-05T11:29:26+00:00November 17th, 2016|2016, India Investment Journal November Edition, India-UK, Year|

        Dinesh Patnaik, as the Acting High Commissioner of India to the UK, was the man charged with much of the groundwork that went into Theresa May’s first visit to India as British Prime Minister earlier this month. Here he highlights some of the key outcomes and takeaways from the visit for ‘India Investment Journal’. The biggest outcome of the visit is the signal it sends to the world of the close relationship between India and the UK. We had agreed [...]