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    India’s e-mobility challenge: Mass adoption will take at least another decade

    2018-10-12T08:16:03+00:00October 12th, 2018|Global Edition – October 2018|

    Indian and foreign car-makers are making the first large investments in setting up e-vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in India. But battery charging infrastructure will have to be rolled out across the country and the upfront cost of electric vehicles (EVs) will have to fall significantly for these eco-friendly models to gain mass acceptance. Consider this: one has to spend an average Rs 5-6/km ($0.07-0.08) for fuel to drive a petrol car in India. Add the wear and tear, maintenance [...]

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      India-EU trade relations: At a crossroads

      2018-10-22T10:46:50+00:00October 12th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

      An analysis of the prospects of an India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Against the backdrop of the Indian President’s recent visit to three European Union countries. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind’s three-nation tour to Central Europe — Bulgaria, Cyprus and the Czech Republic – in early September resulted in the signing of 12 memorandum of understanding in the field of energy, environment, defence production, tourism, trade and investment and financial services. Given that the President is just a titular head [...]

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        Investing in the capital-starved sectors of India

        2020-03-24T07:26:35+00:00October 12th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

        A prominent global development finance institution weighs up channeling commercial investment to underserved Indian states in the North-East and to sectors that can deliver real development impact. Thirty years ago, CDC, the UK’s government-owned development finance institution, made its first major investment in India. Since then, as India’s economy has changed beyond recognition, we have helped to build some of the country’s most important businesses and financial institutions, including Apollo Tyres, UTI Bank (today Axis Bank), IDFC and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. [...]

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          Striking a direct chord with real-time, personalised online content

          2020-03-24T11:33:07+00:00October 12th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

          Virendra Gupta, Founder & CEO of Dailyhunt, and Umang Bedi, the President of India’s mobile app based news publisher and aggregator, give ‘India Global Business‘ an insight into the business model that caters to the demand for news in multiple languages across India and the world. The dynamic duo behind this news revolution believe the winning combination lies in the three Vs – Volume, Veracity and Velocity of fresh content. How has the online media space transformed in India in [...]

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            Dragon’s kiss: Chinese investments in Indian start-ups can compromise data security

            2020-03-24T06:56:26+00:00October 12th, 2018|Global Edition – October 2018, Home Page|

            China has invested almost $10 billion in Indian start-ups since 2014. This can give it access to data on hundreds of millions of Indian consumers and enable it to nudge the public discourse in a direction it desires and could acquire a critical strategic dimension in the years ahead. India and China may not see eye to eye on many things – especially after the eyeball to eyeball confrontation at Doklam near the India-Bhutan-China tri-junction – but that has not stopped Chinese [...]

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              Modi’s actions speak louder than fake bluster on ‘crony capitalism’

              2020-08-20T07:11:19+00:00October 8th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

              The Indian government’s decisive and structured crackdown on corrupt practices sits uneasily with any allegations of corruption, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. India’s Opposition are hell bent on hanging the charge of corruption and crony capitalism on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even twisting and mistranslating emails and statements in French to “prove” that the Indian government helped industrialist Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group bag the offset contracts for the Rafale fighter aircraft deal. This allegation sits uneasily [...]

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                Indian companies on a global mission

                2020-03-24T11:43:24+00:00October 3rd, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

                From start-ups to industry leaders, Indian enterprises are continued their march to enhance overseas impact. OYO hotel chain announces UK entry OYO, India's fastest growing hotel chain, is set to shake up Britain's budget accommodation market with a high-tech franchising and marketing strategy to sign up 300 independent hotels by the end of 2019. Marking its first expansion outside of Asia, the franchiser said it plans to invest £40 million ($53 million) to launch in 10 UK cities over the [...]

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                  Asian, British investors keen on India

                  2020-03-24T11:46:42+00:00October 3rd, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – October 2018|

                  Foreign companies in India eyeing sizeable growth. HOOQ to double India investments Singapore-based video-on-demand streaming service HOOQ is doubling its India investments and has changed strategy to focus on Hollywood and English premium video content to take on Netflix and Amazon prime, and drive growth in India’s highly competitive over-the-top (OTT) video market. Zulfiqar Khan, managing director at HOOQ India, told Indian media: “We are doubling up on our investments for India. We are investing in content, manpower as well [...]

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