Renewed focus on UK’s capital market potential in India’s green growth

    2020-11-06T06:40:29+00:00November 1st, 2020|India Inc Views - India Global Business, Special Report - India Global Business|

    The 10th UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) between UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has brought fresh vigour into closer finance and investment alignment between the two countries.

      Mahatma Gandhi on UK coinage only the start

      2020-09-07T11:06:44+00:00August 4th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

      It was in October 2019 that the UK’s Royal Mint was tasked with exploring how Mahatma Gandhi can be honoured with a commemorative coin to mark his 150th birth anniversary year. And, that mission has once again hit the headlines as a new campaign to promote more ethnic minority figures on British coinage received the backing of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

        Global Indians in the running for new Service to the Nation set of UK coins

        2020-09-07T10:50:57+00:00July 29th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

        Noor Inayat Khan, the first Indian-origin World War II spy for Britain, and Khudadad Khan, the first soldier of the British Indian Army to become the recipient of the prestigious Victoria Cross – the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces, are among those in the running for a new series of commemorative coins.

          #BeTheRevival: Rishi Sunak offers UK arts £1.57bn Covid-19 lifeline

          2020-09-07T11:22:52+00:00July 7th, 2020|iGLOBAL, News & Views|

          UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £1.57-billion rescue package of emergency grants and cheap loans for arts, culture and heritage industries to help them weather the impact of coronavirus lockdown, widely welcomed by the creative industries as a timely and generous intervention.

            Can Rishi Sunak harness the disruption?

            2020-05-11T04:08:54+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, Editorials - India Global Business, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

            Editorial His recent budget announcement featured several impactful measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, catapulted to the top job in No 11 Downing Street just weeks before, is in an unenviable position of having to wade through the biggest health and economic crisis of our time. But Rishi Sunak has shown the kind of mettle one would expect from someone on the frontline of a war against an invisible enemy. The war against Covid-19, [...]

              Rishi Sunak tries to harness the COVID-19 disruption

              2020-05-11T06:20:30+00:00March 26th, 2020|2020, Home Page, The Big Story, The Big Story UK - India Global Business, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

              UK Chancellor of the Exchequer had to unveil two mini-budgets in addition to his maiden budget within a gap of days to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Highlights: Rishi Sunak unveiled a £30-billion worth of funds to help businesses cope with the disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis. The government has also laid out plans to cover 80 per cent of the wages of those unable to work. Other measures include easier to access loan facilities, liquidity assistance for businesses and [...]