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    Has COVID-19 infected international travel for good?

    2022-02-07T16:01:35+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

    The impact of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will transform global travel in myriad ways. Highlights: The coronavirus pandemic is causing a massive strain on the aviation industry due to restrictions on travel. In India, the biggest impact will be felt by state-owned Air India. A series of interim solutions are being looked into by governments around the world to try and keep grounded airlines afloat and save the cash-poor ones from bankruptcy. The one standout outcome of [...]

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      Lessons for a post pandemic world

      2022-02-07T15:58:07+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, Trendspotting - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

      Will we go back to business as usual or will we wise up from what we've learnt from these troubling times? Highlights: A key lesson that could be taken from this outbreak is that we need an increased focus on preventive healthcare, research and medical technologies. The world has also witnessed the power of collaboration to fight this pandemic. The most significant lesson that we can learn is to monitor the impact of our economic activity on our environment. [...]

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        Indian start-ups innovate to fight against COVID-19

        2020-05-11T04:52:54+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, The Small Print - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

        A supportive start-up ecosystem might hold the key for Indian start-ups surviving the pandemic. Highlights: Fast-acting Indian start-ups have developed digital financial tools to provide loans to small businesses, designed digital mental health solutions for people in isolation, and coded open-source on low-cost, low-resource ventilators for developing countries. Founders of leading start-ups, members of investment advisory firms, independent advisors, etc have come together and launched Action COVID-19 Team (ACT). Several Indian corporates are also working at helping to manufacture equipment [...]

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          India’s real estate sector adopts largest remote working experiment

          2022-02-07T16:12:24+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Column, Guest Columns - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

          Retailers shift to e-commerce and expand to online strategies for business continuity. Highlights: The present lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19 has brought about the largest remote working experiment seen in India. The retail industry has been hit hard and companies that had set up tech support centres are hampered, causing both industries to resort to online channels. It is now critical for landlords and developers to ensure risk-mitigation measures to infuse confidence and attract occupiers as soon as [...]

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            Real estate opportunities in India are going to be unbelievable

            2022-02-07T16:11:21+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, Profile - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

            Jyotsna Hegde, President of Sobha Realty in Dubai, discusses what makes India a promising real estate market in the future. Jyotsna Hegde, President of Sobha Realty in Dubai, has recently been recognised as one of the ‘Women of Influence in the Middle East’ in the corporate and business workspace this year. Hegde wears this honour lightly, even though it captures the fruitful journey that she had embarked upon ever since she showed up with an appointment letter which tasked her [...]

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              Boardrooms are replacing CSR with TSI

              2020-05-11T04:48:56+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, Home Page, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, Social Impact Focus - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

              Total societal impact is the new mantra among businesses that consider an overall benefit to society. Highlights: Companies are under mounting pressure from stakeholders and customers to play a more active role in addressing social and environmental issues. A TSI approach considers the complete benefit to society from a company’s products, services, operations, core capabilities, and activities. Companies that actively rethink on how to improve their TSI stand to reap concrete business rewards. Companies are increasingly  under mounting pressure [...]

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                Indian doctors get their due in COVID-19 fightback

                2020-05-11T04:55:14+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, India Inc Views - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, Special Report - India Global Business, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

                The UK has finally taken measures to help support foreign doctors employed with the NHS. Highlights: 60,000 Indian-origin NHS medics have been lobbying against what they believe is an unfair Immigration Health Surcharge imposed on them. The recent move to hike this charge came as a blow to this group of medics who had been hoping for a reprieve. Addressing this, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announced an exemption from the surcharge alongside an automatic fee-free one-year visa renewal for [...]

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                  Sweden, a hotbed for sustainable innovations

                  2020-05-11T04:55:26+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, Home Page, Hotspot - India Global Business, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

                  Indian businesses should consider Sweden as an attractive investment destination. Highlights: A highly educated workforce, availability of renewable energy at low cost, openness to international business ownership and a stable economy make Sweden an ideal investment destination. Sweden functions as a gateway to the $1.7-trillion Nordic market which is the world’s 10th largest market block. Sweden is ranked as the most innovative country in the EU. Almost exactly three years ago, World Economic Forum published the article “Why Sweden [...]

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                    India’s promise to its foreign investors

                    2020-05-11T04:56:05+00:00April 10th, 2020|2020, India Inc Views - India Global Business, Last Word, North America Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020, UK Edition – 10 April-23 April 2020|

                    Even as India remains under lockdown, the Indian Government is walking the extra mile to reassure foreign businesses. The Indian government has been ahead of the curve in meeting the COVID-19 crisis head on. And even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his core team have been working on an exit strategy from the lockdown, another arm of the government, its foreign investment facilitation agency, Invest India, has been burning the midnight oil addressing queries from both foreign and Indian [...]

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                      Can Rishi Sunak harness the disruption?

                      2020-05-11T04:08:54+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

                      Editorial His recent budget announcement featured several impactful measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, catapulted to the top job in No 11 Downing Street just weeks before, is in an unenviable position of having to wade through the biggest health and economic crisis of our time. But Rishi Sunak has shown the kind of mettle one would expect from someone on the frontline of a war against an invisible enemy. The war against Covid-19, [...]

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