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    Indian mission lights up in energy efficient colours

    2018-12-31T13:28:39+00:00July 17th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal July Edition, Year|

    The Indian High Commission in London has been lit up in energy efficient tricolour as part of a pact with India’s Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL). The High Commission, situated in the iconic ‘India House’ building in central London, is the largest Indian diplomatic mission and recently became the first to sign up to an energy efficiency contract with EESL. “Under the contract, EESL will install 1,700 LED lights in High Commission of India. The installation of these LED lights will lead to annual [...]

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      Tapping into an inner life force

      2018-12-31T13:35:34+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, Year, Yoga Corner|

      The recently held International Day of Yoga symbolises the global impact of this ancient Indian practice. Over the last few months, I have been writing about the numerous benefits of yoga, diving into the rationale, the physiological advantages and the depth that this ancient practice has. I have cited case studies on how patients have managed diseases ranging from joint pain to cancer using yogic practices. There is an increasing desire to learn and understand how the application of yoga [...]

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        GST: The transformational fiscal reform

        2018-12-31T13:36:06+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal July Edition, The Big Story, Year|

        The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will help neutralise the centrifugal forces in the Indian economy, writes a policy expert. The historical project of transforming India from a conglomeration of sub-national identities and interests to a modern nation state began with our Independence. The assimilation of more than 500 princely states, which had been rather ingeniously given the choice by the departing British colonial administration to either secede or join the Indian Union was the first major step in [...]

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          The world’s next factory

          2020-03-12T14:22:56+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal July Edition, Year|

          Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme to make India a major global manufacturing hub is likely to start showing results when the $68-billion of investments committed on the ground start coming on stream over the next couple of years. Critics complain that the glass is half empty. The Prime Minister’s Make in India initiative has not led to any increase in the share of manufacturing in the country’s GDP and has not generated the huge number of jobs it was expected [...]

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            Lockheed Martin clinches F-16 fighter jet deal with Tata

            2018-12-31T13:34:43+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal July Edition, Year|

            Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has signed an agreement with American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin to join hands to produce the F-16 Block 70 in India. The F-16 Block 70 is ideally suited to meet the Indian Air Force’s single-engine fighter needs and the US-Indian industry partnership directly supports India’s initiative to develop private aerospace and defence manufacturing capacity in India under the Make in India initiative, the companies said during the Paris Air Show recently. Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said: “This agreement builds on [...]

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