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    Green bonds lead the way for India-UK ties

    2018-08-01T12:05:43+00:00December 20th, 2017|2017/2018, December 2017, INDIA-UK, Year|

    A series of green bond listings on the London Stock Exchange to raise funds for Indian infrastructure projects dominated the bilateral relationship in recent months. India, UK to ink pact in urban transport sector India and the UK will sign a pact soon for cooperation in policy planning, technology transfer and institutional organisation in the urban transport sector. India’s Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari, met UK’s Transport Secretary Chris Grayling in London recently and discussed a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) [...]

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      Illuminating India’s scientific contributions

      2018-05-28T13:10:07+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

      A brief chronicle of the country’s inventions and ideas that have been pivotal in shaping the world come to life as part of the UK-India Year of Culture. Some of the most important ideas in the history of science, technology, mathematics and engineering find their roots in India. Thanks to the influence that Indian scientific thought had on the civilisations with which it made contact, those ideas and inventions spread throughout the world. Illuminating India: 5000 years of science & [...]

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        Punjab makes a play to attract Global Indians

        2018-08-01T12:54:20+00:00October 27th, 2017|2017/2018, More from this edition, October 2017, Year|

        Captain Amarinder Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab, has launched a new ‘Connect With Your Roots’ scheme for young Global Indians to gain first-hand experience of the state. Captain Amarinder Singh used the UK as the base to kick-start his dream project for Punjabi-origin students based overseas to reconnect with their roots in their ancestral land and interact with their counterparts in Punjabi universities. Connect With Your Roots, targeted at 16 to 22-year-olds who have never visited India, will involve the state [...]

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          Poised for exponential growth

          2018-08-07T13:11:49+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Sector Focus: Food Retail, Year|

          Demographics, rising incomes and a low existing base all point towards a paradigm shift in the fortunes of India’s still fledgling food retail sector.

          It can potentially become the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) and will definitely play a major role in realising the Prime Minister’s goal of doubling farm incomes by 2022. Food retail, the largest component of India’s more than $500-billion retail sector, is standing at the cusp of greatness. How its fortunes play out over the next five to 10 years could well decide the success of the government’s ambitious Make in India initiative as well as the direction of politics by influencing how the critical farm lobby votes in future elections.

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            A collaboration for socially relevant enterprise

            2018-05-18T13:02:56+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

            The man behind a unique social enterprise initiative bringing together young talent from the UK and India explains what Modual: Mumbai is all about.

            I’m writing this from day three of the Modual: Mumbai workshop. Already the ideas are flowing through a cultural collaboration that has exploded into more energy than even we experienced Modual-ers had anticipated.

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              Food processing is India’s sunrise sector

              2018-12-31T11:59:33+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Sector Focus: Food Retail, Year|

              Harsimrat Kaur Badal, as the minister in charge of India’s Ministry of Food Process Industries, has been on a worldwide mission to attract investors to the country’s $915bn farm-to-fork ecosystem. During a recent visit to London, ‘India Investment Journal’ was given an insight into her plans for India’s first-ever World Food India summit this year. What is the investment update since your last visit to the UK? From our last meeting, all the big retail chains were hoping for some [...]

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                Cooking up a new fast-food strategy for India

                2018-12-31T12:08:01+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Sector Focus: Food Retail, Year|

                UK-based Southern Fried Chicken is looking at setting up 200 outlets in India over a 10-year period. The company’s Franchise Development Manager, Andrew McNair, talks ‘India Investment Journal’ through his plans for a very important future marketplace for the fast-food company. What makes Southern Fried Chicken bet on the Indian market? Southern Fried Chicken have a development plan to franchise across the world and see the successful Indian economy as a very important future marketplace. The country has a growing middle [...]

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                  UK university project to build solar power stations in India

                  2018-12-31T12:11:14+00:00September 18th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

                  A consortium of 12 British and Indian universities led by Swansea University in Wales has won £7 million of UK government funding to build five self-sufficient solar-powered buildings in remote Indian villages. A new solar project, called SUNRISE, will develop printed photovoltaic cells and new manufacturing processes which can be used to construct solar energy products in India. These will then be integrated into buildings in at least five villages of India, allowing them to harness solar power to provide their own energy and run off grid. The programme is part of [...]

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                    Indian women’s cricket team makes a global mark

                    2018-08-01T13:09:38+00:00August 18th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

                    We have built a strong foundation for women cricketers in India, says Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj. The captain of the Indian women’s cricket team, which narrowly lost in the World Cup at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London in July, believes her team’s performance has created a strong foundation for the future of women’s cricket in India. Mithali Raj, who has now also been named as the captain of the Women's World Cup 2017 tournament team by the International Cricket Council (ICC), said her team will take [...]

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                      Indian companies firm on UK & Europe

                      2018-08-01T13:09:44+00:00August 18th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, UK/EU, Year|

                      From steel, energy and healthcare to food packaging, Indian firms make a mark across the UK and Europe. Tata Steel completes sale of UK mills The UK’s Liberty House Grouphas completed the purchase of two pipe mills from Tata Steel UK in north-east England. Liberty, which is part of the GFG Alliance, had signed a provisional agreement to acquire the units at Hartlepool last month and appointed top steel pipe specialist, James Annal, to head the new pipe and tube [...]

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