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    Making the Most of Tourism and Our Cultural Ties

    2019-04-18T12:19:57+00:00April 18th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

    Dr Jyotsna Suri, Chairperson & Managing Director of The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group, outlines how improved tourism could shape the age-old relationship between India and the UK. Backdrop The year 2016 was unprecedented for the world economy. This was more so for the UK, as it marked the beginning of its exit from European Union following a historic referendum. The UK’s desire to ‘look beyond’ Europe has accelerated its efforts to strengthen economic relations with its other major partners. In [...]

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      Ayushman Bharat endeavours to make quality healthcare accessible to all

      2020-11-24T09:48:09+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

      Dr Preetha Reddy is the Vice Chairperson of the Apollo Hospitals Group. In this interview with India Global Business, she discussed the Ayushman Bharat initiative, Apollo-UK tie-ups and the hurdles faced in the Indian healthcare sector. How has India's healthcare landscape changed over the past few years? The Indian healthcare landscape has evolved over the last few years, moving towards greater patient-centricity and resultant improvement in our national health indicators. However, while we have achieved success in reducing Maternal & [...]

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        Opportunities to build closer ties lie within the diaspora communities

        2019-04-23T07:03:07+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Home Page, Women's Edition – April 2019|

        A British politician discusses the role the House of Lords can play in building closer India-UK ties amidst the ongoing Brexit uncertainties. As elections take place in India and the United Kingdom looks to exit the European Union, it is good time to reflect on how far we have come in relationships that bound us in the past but also shaped our futures. What are the commonalities that we share today and how as UK, the oldest democracy, and India [...]

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          How Corporate India contributes to women’s economic empowerment – through CSR and business practices

          2019-04-19T09:25:20+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

          Samhita’s recent report, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), highlights initiatives by corporates for women's economic empowerment. India is one of the first countries in the world to formalise the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in nation building through Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013, which mandates eligible companies to spend 2 per cent of their net profits on social development. Schedule VII of the Act defines ‘promoting gender equality and empowering women’ as a key cause [...]

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            India’s Soft Power – A long shot perspective

            2019-04-23T07:09:49+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Home Page, Women's Edition – April 2019|

            We need to focus on quality, training, excellence and investment for India’s soft power to be globally recognised, asserts an Indian arts expert. India is the world’s largest democracy. India has a global presence thanks to its economically successful diaspora, a successful IT industry and its internationally loved cuisine, cinema, dance and music. Our much-appreciated multi-culturalism, religious pluralism and the heritage of yoga, Ayurveda and philosophy also play a vital role in establishing India’s soft power globally. A survey of [...]

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              Why does India’s space adventure cause unease in the UK?

              2019-04-18T12:25:07+00:00April 16th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

              India’s recent anti-satellite missile system (A-SAT) test resulted in aftershocks of a different kind in Britain, which does not own similar hi-tech hardware. “The UK is still bankrolling India despite its recent launch of the satellite – a hi-tech piece of hardware that the UK does not even own within its own defence systems,” noted a UK daily soon after India’s headline-grabbing space experiment. Mission Shakti propelled India into an elite club of four countries, alongside China, Russia and the US, to successfully deploy the A-SAT technology [...]

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                Romania, your next business destination

                2020-03-18T11:15:50+00:00April 16th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

                Romania is undeniable a reliable partner for profit-oriented worldwide entrepreneurs, says the head of Invest Romania. In the highly dynamic and interconnected world of global business having paradigms of economic power being drawn and redrawn relentlessly, with reduced appetence for risk exposure and propensity to invest, Romania has succeeded in maintaining its position as one of the leading foreign direct investment recipients in Europe, ranking 10th with $5.8 billion foreign investment attracted in 2017, as 3 per cent of the [...]

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