Government e-Market Place targets $100-bn sales in 5 years

    2020-09-25T15:04:25+00:00September 25th, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|

    The Modi government has launched the biggest-ever reforms of India’s public procurement system by taking the process online. This has substantially reduced human interface and, with it, brought down corruption, delays and inefficiency. It has the potential of becoming the Indian government’s answer to Amazon.

      US plus Russia, a new paradigm in India’s foreign policy matrix

      2020-10-13T11:41:21+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.

        Ambani-Bezos rivalry heats up; market awaits Amazon’s next move

        2020-09-18T15:21:17+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.

          India is the new go-to entity in the Indo-Pacific

          2020-09-13T00:51:40+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.