India-Israel: Close allies in keeping peace and order

    2018-05-31T06:16:31+00:00June 16th, 2017|2017/2018, Cover Story, June 2017, Year|

    Politically and strategically, Israel is India’s most trusted ally in West Asia, writes a political senior columnist. Twenty-five years ago, in 1992, India and Israel formally established full diplomatic relations and exchanged ambassadors. In 2003, Ariel Sharon, Israel’s prime minister at the time, travelled to India, becoming the first head of government from Tel Aviv to do so. This month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will become the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel. This will be a historic moment [...]

      The UK election results don’t portend a doomsday scenario

      2018-06-08T09:58:10+00:00June 16th, 2017|2017/2018, India-UK, June 2017, Year|

      When politicians misjudge the public mood and gamble, the end result can be politically catastrophic. In that sense, the UK election results are nothing short of a political earthquake – the second one to hit the UK in 10 months. Just as David Cameron had misread the public mood in Britain when he called for the Brexit vote, Theresa May’s decision to go back to the people a full three years before her term as Her Majesty’s First Minister was [...]

        Link West showing early signs of success

        2018-08-02T10:19:48+00:00June 16th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, June 2017, Year|

        Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policy of renewing and redefining India’s millennia-old civilisational bonds with the Middle East are bearing concrete fruit in the form of strategic alliances and investments in India’s infrastructure sector. Mention the Middle East to an Indian and he will immediately associate it with oil, deserts, Dubai and, very possibly, a non-resident relative stationed there. None of the above provides a misleading picture of the region; equally, none of them paints the complete picture either. Today, the [...]

          Bonds that go beyond Brexit

          2018-06-08T11:46:23+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, India-UK, June 2017, Year|

          India’s strong economic fundamentals, low inflation and interest rates on a declining trend are ideal for bond investors, writes a financial markets expert. London & Partners, the Mayor of London’s official business development company, has long been focusing on attracting inward investments into London, which is arguably the cultural and business capital of the world. This initiative, which started well before Brexit, sought to reinforce London as the gateway between America and Asia. It could become very important for London [...]

            India-Israel: Past tense, future perfect

            2018-08-02T10:16:51+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Cover Story, June 2017, Year|

            When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Israel in July, not only will he be bringing the otherwise warm relationship between the two countries out of the closet, he will also be marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of formal and full-fledged diplomatic relations between the two countries. Modi’s visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister to Israel, also marks the decisive de-hyphening of the relationship with India’s traditional support for the Palestine cause. Modi will not be [...]

              Spreading their wings

              2018-08-02T10:50:47+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Exports, June 2017, Year|

              Indian project exports are gradually gaining scale by winning increasingly bigger contracts with a little help from the Indian government. When spectators troop in to watch the likes of Lionel Messi match his skills against Neymar in the 2022 World Cup Football tournament in Qatar, India will have an unseen presence in the 40,000-seat Al Rayan Stadium. A Reuters report recently said Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won the $135-million contract, through a joint venture, to build the [...]

                The case for Global Britain must now be made at home and abroad

                2018-06-08T10:01:02+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, India-UK, June 2017, Year|

                The British General Election of 2017 was intended to provide stability and certainty, but it did not go according to plan. Theresa May asked the country for a resounding personal mandate to strengthen her in the Brexit negotiations – but the public refused it, confounding expectations of a clear Conservative victory in this early General Election. But, even before the inconclusive result, it was striking how little light the election campaign had shone on the key choices facing Britain about [...]

                  India-Israel relations on a very good wicket

                  2018-08-02T10:16:41+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Cover Story, June 2017, Year|

                  The Indian Ambassador based in Tel Aviv, Pavan Kapoor, is well-placed to provide some context to Narendra Modi’s historic visit to Israel in July – the first by an Indian Prime Minister. Please give us an overview of where Indo-Israel ties stand. I think India-Israel relations are on a very good wicket, at the political and economic level and also the cultural and people to people level. We have not had this scale of high level contact between the two [...]

                    Hospitality comes naturally to Indians

                    2018-08-02T10:17:05+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Global Indian, June 2017, Year|

                    Dr Jyotsna Suri is a stalwart in the Indian hotel industry, who recently expanded her group’s footprint to the UK with The Lalit London. ‘India Global Business’ caught up with this jet-setting Global Indian to get her views on Indian hospitality and its worldwide impact. Please give your overview on the Indian hotel industry and its growth patterns over recent years. The Indian hotel industry has been on an upswing in the last few years. The improvement in infrastructure and [...]