Arnab Mitra2020-09-23T13:01:19+00:00September 22nd, 2020|The Big Story - India Global Business|
India has been a model global citizen, a founding member of the United Nations, is the world’s fifth largest economy, is home to one-sixth of humanity and contributes more troops to UN peacekeeping missions than all the P5 countries combined. These are just some of the reasons why it deserves a seat at the global high table.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-22T04:36:06+00:00September 21st, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|
Consumption demand is expected to revive for the e-commerce sector in India this festive season. This could do for Indian tech companies what the 2002-04 SARS pandemic did for Chinese internet firms.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-21T09:52:06+00:00September 21st, 2020|Guest Columns - India Global Business, Insight - India Global Business|
Global smartphone market leaders Apple and Samsung are eager to connect with Indian consumers. So, they are increasing their online presence in this country, a clear indication that foreign investors think discretionary spending will pick up very soon.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-21T02:50:04+00:00September 18th, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|
India has offered to negotiate and sign limited trade deals, covering a few dozen important items, with the US and the UK even as talks on comprehensive FTAs carry on. This could provide a formula for settling outstanding trade negotiations with the EU, ASEAN and other nations.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-16T13:30:04+00:00September 16th, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|
In an initiative to attract companies leaving China and to provide the world with an alternative to over-dependence on one country, New Delhi, Tokyo and Canberra are considering a deal that could change the paradigm of global trade for decades to come.
Arnab Mitra2020-10-13T11:41:21+00:00September 15th, 2020|The Big Story - India Global Business|
Russia’s support in organising two recent high-level political meetings with China in Moscow shows that the Kremlin still remains an important pole for the Indian foreign policy establishment. This relationship could help shape the free world’s pushback against a rising new hegemon.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-18T15:21:17+00:00September 15th, 2020|In Focus: Covid-19 impact, India Inc Views - India Global Business|
The fight to dominate India’s $700-bn retail market gathers intensity as Reliance acquires its nearest rival, leaving Amazon far behind. Even as there is speculation of Walmart buying a minority stake in Reliance Retail, the market is awaiting Bezos’ next move with bated breath.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-15T08:41:27+00:00September 14th, 2020|Guest Columns - India Global Business, Insight - India Global Business|
Mukesh Ambani is pushing India towards self-reliance in consumer technology even as the Government of India rolls out new schemes to attract investments from companies leaving China. These will steadily steer the country towards the goal of Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-13T00:51:40+00:00September 11th, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|
France has described India as its foremost strategic partner in Asia. Germany has included the word ‘Indo’ in its regional strategic doctrine for the first time. And India, Australia and France have held their first trilateral dialogue on enhancing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. All these unrelated developments point to one geo-strategic conclusion: That the world’s big democracies are shoring up their defences against the new hegemon that is threatening the global order.
Arnab Mitra2020-09-10T13:21:01+00:00September 10th, 2020|Guest Columns - India Global Business, Insight - India Global Business|
Leading global investment bank Goldman Sachs has projected a more than 15 per cent GDP expansion for India in the next fiscal. And strong farm sector growth and rising rural prosperity could temper the blow of the massive economic contraction in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
