Howdy Modi: Trump rolls out the red carpet, but follow-throughs will be crucial

    2019-09-27T06:53:16+00:00September 26th, 2019|2019, North America Edition – 27th September 2019, UK Edition – 27th September 2019|

    The Indian Prime Minister’s September 2019 US visit, which concludes with an address to the UN General Assembly, is historic in many ways but there is a lot of real groundwork required to build on it and create a win-win India-US trade and investment partnership. The optics could not be any better – a first-of-its-kind and largest mass rally for a foreign leader in the southern American state of Texas, with President Donald Trump seen hand-in-hand with the visiting Indian [...]

      Delivery vs Denial: Modi and Trump on climate change

      2020-08-20T07:00:32+00:00August 2nd, 2019|India Inc News|

      The Indian Prime Minister continues to walk the talk on tackling climate change in the face of Trump’s delusional denial, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. Away from the raging debates over the state of the Indian economy, there’s another issue that is attracting a lot of attention in India. A 45-second promo of ‘Man vs Wild’, a popular show on the Discovery Channel on the importance of protecting wildlife and the environment, has become the topic of [...]

        A defining UK-India partnership against protectionism

        2019-06-25T14:32:32+00:00June 25th, 2019|2019, Special Edition – June 2019|

        In a world shaken up by the emergency of climate change and headwinds of protectionism, the UK and India have a chance to prove how their combined force for good can set the pace for a rules-based global order. India looks poised to overtake the UK as the world’s fifth-largest economy this year, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections for the year ahead, as a Brexit-worn Britain loses some of its economic heft. Some of these significant shifts in [...]

          Ecological schemes to counter catastrophe

          2018-07-23T10:27:35+00:00July 19th, 2018|2017/2018, Global Edition – July 2018|

          The Director of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Foundation addresses the need for sustainable initiatives in the corporate environment. Our collective global actions in our business have hit our planet’s vitals. It is alarming to note that we are speedily exhausting the carbon emission budget of 1200 Gigatons of carbon that the United Nations body on Climate Change has assigned to be used by the end of this century. That target is important to keep global temperature rise to not [...]

            India has traditional water management wisdom

            2018-05-25T10:32:18+00:00May 24th, 2018|2017/2018, Region Focus, UK Edition- May 2018|

            A UNESCO expert lays out how the ingenuity of humankind can be combined with the ingenuity of nature for a more sustainable approach to water management. India is rich in freshwater resources, yet faces drought, floods and increasingly exacerbated consequences of tropical cyclones, which disrupt the water cycle. In Rajasthan, just over 30 years ago, unusually low rainfall, combined with excessive logging, led to the worst droughts in its history. One of the poorest districts in the state, Alwar, was [...]