Decoding the Indian Budget 2018 for UK businesses

    2018-05-23T12:33:16+00:00February 23rd, 2018|2017/2018, India-Uk, UK Edition - March 2018, Year|

    The Budget opens up wide scope for private sector participation in sectors such as healthcare. India’s Union Budget 2018-19, presented by the Finance Minister on 1 February 2018, reaffirms the government’s focus on keeping the Indian economy on an inclusive growth path with an emphasis on social sector, infrastructure and agricultural development. This was the government’s last full-year budget before the General Elections in 2019 and came on the back of significant structural reforms in the last 12-15 months including [...]

      India and UK are both at inflection points

      2018-08-05T05:48:35+00:00February 23rd, 2018|2017/2018, India-Uk, UK Edition - March 2018, Year|

      Among the best global partners, India and UK will find during this transformational phase are each other. TheIndia-United Kingdom relationship is so old, so multi-faceted and so rich in its cultural, economic and people-to-people dimensions that it would appear that politicians and governments almost don’t matter. Actually, it is upon governments in both countries, and upon us MPs – my British and Indian colleagues and me, in my capacity as co-chair of the India-UK Parliamentary Forum – to build on [...]

        India’s youth will be biggest factor in UK-India relations

        2018-05-23T13:31:31+00:00February 23rd, 2018|2017/2018, India-Uk, UK Edition - March 2018, Year|

        Discounting foreign students from migrant calculations will greatly benefit the British economy. India is a country of over 1.3 billion people, over half of whom are aged 25 and under. The UK-India partnership must benefit the youth of India if it is going to reach its full potential. To achieve this, the UK’s higher education sector must play a leading role in building that bond between the UK and India and any prospective trade deal must include concessions on the [...]

          UK invests big in the Indian market

          2018-07-31T14:05:51+00:00February 23rd, 2018|2017/2018, India-Uk, UK Edition - March 2018, Year|

          Tech major Dyson leads the charge of investments in the Indian market as Make in India makes its automotive mark. Tyremarket.com raises UK funds Bengaluru-based online tyre retailer Tyremarket.com has raised around $500,000 from UK-based online tyre retailer Blackcircles.com’s founder Michael Welch. Tyremarket is headed by former Siemens Healthcare executive Sanjeev Agrawal, who is co-founder and CEO. Tyremarket, which was started in 2015, operates a lean business model similar to Blackcircles. It is an online marketplace for supplying tyres to [...]