The counter-balance within a volatile landscape

    2020-12-17T14:17:37+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, India-Japan, Year|

    Arun Jaitley significantly ramped up India’s ties with Japan in one of his last major foreign visits before handing over the defence portfolio to Cabinet colleague Nirmala Sitharaman.

    India’s outgoing defence minister, Arun Jaitley, left no doubts about India’s close ties with its neighbour Japan during a recently concluded tour of the country in early September.

    The bilateral Defence Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo saw Jaitley and his Japanese counterpart, Itsunori Onodera, clinch a range of significant tie-ups in the field of defence cooperation, combat exercises and exchanges and counter-terrorism. The significant ramping up of ties is undoubtedly being viewed as a counter-balance to the increasingly volatile situation in the region, with India’s continued tensions with China over Doklam and North Korea’s increasingly belligerent overtures with missile tests.

      Lockheed Martin clinches F-16 fighter jet deal with Tata

      2018-12-31T13:34:43+00:00July 14th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal July Edition, Year|

      Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has signed an agreement with American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin to join hands to produce the F-16 Block 70 in India. The F-16 Block 70 is ideally suited to meet the Indian Air Force’s single-engine fighter needs and the US-Indian industry partnership directly supports India’s initiative to develop private aerospace and defence manufacturing capacity in India under the Make in India initiative, the companies said during the Paris Air Show recently. Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said: “This agreement builds on [...]

        Link West showing early signs of success

        2018-08-02T10:19:48+00:00June 16th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, June 2017, Year|

        Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policy of renewing and redefining India’s millennia-old civilisational bonds with the Middle East are bearing concrete fruit in the form of strategic alliances and investments in India’s infrastructure sector. Mention the Middle East to an Indian and he will immediately associate it with oil, deserts, Dubai and, very possibly, a non-resident relative stationed there. None of the above provides a misleading picture of the region; equally, none of them paints the complete picture either. Today, the [...]

          Time ripe for closer India-GCC ties

          2018-06-08T13:24:28+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, June 2017, Year|

          India has historically had close economic ties with the Arabian Peninsula, especially the Gulf region along its eastern shores, writes a banking expert. The first historically recorded maritime trade route in the world was, in fact, between the Indus Valley civilisation and the civilisation of Dilmun, which was located on the island of Bahrain and the adjacent shore of Saudi Arabia. Goods, including cotton and spices, were acquired by merchants from Dilmun. Through most of history, goods flowed from India [...]

            India-Israel: Past tense, future perfect

            2018-08-02T10:16:51+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Cover Story, June 2017, Year|

            When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Israel in July, not only will he be bringing the otherwise warm relationship between the two countries out of the closet, he will also be marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of formal and full-fledged diplomatic relations between the two countries. Modi’s visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister to Israel, also marks the decisive de-hyphening of the relationship with India’s traditional support for the Palestine cause. Modi will not be [...]

              India-Israel relations on a very good wicket

              2018-08-02T10:16:41+00:00June 15th, 2017|2017/2018, Cover Story, June 2017, Year|

              The Indian Ambassador based in Tel Aviv, Pavan Kapoor, is well-placed to provide some context to Narendra Modi’s historic visit to Israel in July – the first by an Indian Prime Minister. Please give us an overview of where Indo-Israel ties stand. I think India-Israel relations are on a very good wicket, at the political and economic level and also the cultural and people to people level. We have not had this scale of high level contact between the two [...]

                In defence of a strategic Make in India policy

                2019-01-02T07:28:07+00:00May 26th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal May Edition, Last Word, Year|

                The Strategic Partnership Policy (SPP) could throw open deals worth over $20bn to six selected private sector companies in India. India’s defence forces will get their first fighter jets, submarines, helicopters and armoured vehicles made in India by the private sector within a few years. And it is entirely probable that friendly foreign countries could also be using some of these Made in India weapon systems. In a major boost to private sector participation in offensive defence platforms, the defence [...]

                  Artificial Intelligence is bringing intuition to Cyber Security

                  2018-06-12T07:28:47+00:00April 10th, 2017|2017/2018, April 2017, Sector Focus/IT, Year|

                  Cyber Security is the protection of information assets, which are highly valuable to an organisation, writes a security expert. In the early days of the internet, Cyber Security wasn't of importance since most computers linked to the internet were part of academia, where trust played a major role. In addition, traditional networking wasn't secure by design, and did not encompass elements of security. As the internet grew, organisations started realising the efficiency and productivity the internet brought, and applications and [...]