How do we advance on #PressforProgress?

    2018-07-31T13:10:22+00:00April 18th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – April 2018, Year|

    The Founder of Loomba Foundation explains why he is championing gender parity across all sectors around the Press for Progress theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. The recent World Economic Forum’s 2017 ‘Global Gender Gap’ report has exposed shocking results stating that gender parity is over 200 years away. There has never been a more important time to take this issue up and keep motivated for #PressforProgress. And while we know that gender parity won't happen overnight, one could [...]

      Vietnam is critical to balance of power in Asia

      2020-03-04T07:06:48+00:00April 18th, 2018|2017/2018, Country Focus, Global Edition – April 2018, Year|

      Given the ambivalence of some ASEAN countries to China’s rise and Beijing’s hardnosed strategy of using its financial heft to buy influence across Asia, it is important for democracies like India and Japan to foster cooperation with Vietnam. It is not very often that New Delhi hosts the Prime Minister and the President of the same country within a span of five weeks. But that’s exactly what Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did, inviting Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc [...]

        India’s inclusivity challenge is to provide productive jobs

        2018-05-22T14:34:44+00:00April 18th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – April 2018, Spotlight, Year|

        Professor Kunal Sen is the  at the University of Manchester. He is at the forefront of research into inclusive economic development, principally focusing on India but also on East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In this interview, the economist tells ‘India Global Business’ why he chose to focus his research on India’s economic growth story. My research, which I have been working on for probably the last 15-20 years, has essentially been about understanding India’s economic growth. I have observed how [...]

          India’s new political interest in the Commonwealth

          2018-05-18T13:02:18+00:00April 17th, 2018|2017/2018, Bird's Eye View, Global Edition – April 2018, Year|

          Our strategic expert offers an overview of India’s participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on April 19-20. India’s new political interest in the Commonwealth is evident by the participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London on 19-20 April 2018, marking the first Indian prime ministerial presence in a Commonwealth Summit after nearly a decade. This is expected to lead to a larger, and possibly leadership, role in [...]

            Cyber security storm hits Indian shores

            2018-05-18T13:02:18+00:00April 16th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – April 2018, Sector Focus, Year|

            As a whistleblower in the UK named India’s Opposition party among the clients of a controversial consultancy, the issue of cyber security has taken centre stage in the country. A former employee of Cambridge Analytica, the UK-based firm at the heart of a global row over data security, has claimed that the company worked extensively in India in his evidence before a UK parliamentary committee investigating the issue of fake news. Christopher Wylie deposed before the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [...]

              Is India’s economic recovery for real this time?

              2018-05-22T14:35:09+00:00April 16th, 2018|2017/2018, Cover Story, Global Edition – April 2018, Year|

              There are several signs that India's economy is undergoing a sustainable turnaround that promises to take it to a higher growth trajectory. But there are significant risks, including the possibility of a fickle Monsoon that cannot be wished away. The rain gods, Indian policy-makers, industrialists and human resource managers seem to be coming together on the same page. The green shoots of growth in India's economy seem to be pointing towards a sustained recovery after several false dawns and red [...]