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    Co-creation and capability-building for India

    2020-03-16T11:08:16+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, Home Page, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

    Rolls-Royce’s Global Government Relations Director elaborates on how partnerships and co-creation offer India an accelerated path for capability development, especially in the security and defence sector. Highlights: A sustained focus on reforms, manufacturing, and indigenous capability-building has helped India’s jump in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report. India’s search to build an indigenous defence industry offers an opportunity for global players to work with Indian counterparts in a closer partnership. Industry 4.0 is a very important area of [...]

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      India and the UK together are a force for global good

      2019-12-13T13:46:20+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, Home Page, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

      The Director of UK Research and Innovation, India reflects on her experience with the organisation over the past decade and outlines the growing opportunities for partnerships between the UK and India. Highlights: UKRI was created in 2018 as a public funder of research and innovation in universities and businesses. The Indo-UK research and innovation partnership has been steadily one of transformation, changing lives for people globally. In 2019, Indo-UK research and innovation opportunities and partnerships worth a commitment of over [...]

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        Serbia makes a play for Indian investments

        2020-03-16T11:10:10+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, Home Page, North America Edition – 13 December 2019, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

        A skilled workforce, prime geographic location, financial incentives and tremendous support from the government are a few factors that make Serbia a hotspot for foreign investments. Highlights: Serbia is referred to as the crossroad of Europe due to its position in the central Balkan Peninsula, on the most important route linking Europe and Asia. The country offers foreign investors a 10-year Corporate Profit Tax Holiday if they hire more than 100 employees and invest more than €8.5 million. Serbia also [...]

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          An unbeatable combination in legal services

          2019-12-13T10:23:49+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

          Legal experts examine the shortfalls in the Indian judicial system and share how the UK’s expertise could be leveraged to help India deliver justice in a speedy, transparent and accurate manner. Highlights: India requires a robust and dynamic judicial system and judicial techniques to ensure freedom, justice and equality as enshrined in the Constitution of India. In 2016, the government launched the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA), India’s first-of-its-kind international institution of arbitration, set up with the aim of [...]

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            Working towards ‘A Better Life, A Better World’

            2019-12-13T13:38:34+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, Home Page, North America Edition – 13 December 2019, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

            Education, vocational training, healthcare and environmental consciousness form the pillars of Panasonic’s CSR activities in India. Highlights: Panasonic’s “A Better Life, A Better World” CSR programme focuses on sustainable development of the society by working with the local community. The company runs various CSR projects focusing on building skills, enabling access to opportunities for learning and technological development and improving health services for the remote communities. The company also sponsors a scholarship called “Ratti Chhatr Scholarship’ programme to engineering students [...]

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              Indian hospitality comes to old Scotland Yard HQ

              2019-12-13T07:37:09+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, North America Edition – 13 December 2019, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

              Global Indian M.A. Yusuff Ali’s LuLu Group completed a £300-million investment in the UK with the opening of its new Great Scotland Yard Hotel in the heart of London, hailed as a sign of Britain’s attraction as a hub for global funds. Highlights: The Lulu Group, headed by Kerala-born entrepreneur M.A. Yusuff Ali, recently completed investments of £300-million in the UK with the launch of the new Great Scotland Yard Hotel. The launch came as good news for the UK’s [...]

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                All you wanted to know about India’s new Citizenship Amendment Bill

                2019-12-13T08:24:14+00:00December 13th, 2019|2019, North America Edition – 13 December 2019, UK Edition – 13 December 2019|

                Contrary to the raging headlines dominating media right now, the new Citizenship Amendment Bill passed by the Indian government is an asylum policy to accommodate persecuted minorities in neighbouring countries and is in no way a move to disenfranchise any other classes. It will be fair to say that India is not the flavour of the season in the western media. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) 2019, passed by the Indian Parliament, has received the worst, and mostly ill-informed and [...]

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