Category: Articles
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Doing business in India: No longer on a wing and a prayer
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What does the Indian government’s new International Trade Analytics Platform mean for foreign investors? India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa unravels this new data revolution in the country. It’s an initiative that will empower Indian SMEs and foreign investors alike. Anyone wanting any information on India’s foreign trade can log on…
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West must not shut doors to Indian talent
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by Manoj Ladwa I, of course, understand the pressures the UK, US and other Western economies are under through unchecked immigration and the sapping of their own homegrown skills talent pool. However, the market evangelists have converted to the dogmas of those they preached free trade to. How else can one square…
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Trade and terror don't go hand in hand
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by Manoj Ladwa India yesterday conducted measured ‘surgical strikes’ on known terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to repeated terror attacks supported from across the border in recent months. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice called Ajit Doval, her opposite number in India, and told him the White…
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India’s 4G revolution will help western SMEs make it big
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by Manoj Ladwa The term game changer is bandied about rather loosely these days. So, ‘India Investment Journal’ decided to tread with caution before agreeing with the media chorus that the launch of Reliance Jio’s 4G service across India would be a “game changer” for the country’s telecom sector. First,…
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India’s Big Defence Juggle: Great progress, more to be done
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I recently met a well-known financier in London who has invested over $500 million in India. When I met him last year, he was feeling apprehensive about his investments, feeling that his “Modi-bet” may not be coming off. His investments were stagnating, the bureaucracy was still finding its feet with…
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Punjab’s global diaspora can play a major role in its economic growth; but will they?
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by Manoj Ladwa In the World Bank’s ‘Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms’ report, Punjab is described as: “Remarkably, the only state in [India] in which the single window system allows application for all of the licenses.” But when I speak to members of the Punjabi diaspora, their impression…
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US pivot to Asia works to India’s strategic & economic advantage
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by Manoj Ladwa President Barack Obama has called India-US relations “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century”. Last year, he told an Indian publication: “Forging deeper ties between our two nations has been a key part of my foreign policy since I took over office.” Former Prime Minister…
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Donald Trump to address Hindu Americans at New Jersey rally
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I wonder, will the US see a shift by Indians away from the Democrats to Republicans in the same way that there has been a shift from Labour to the Conservatives in the UK over the past few years? Read more…
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Liam Fox turns up volume on UK-India relations; India will ask 'Where are the lyrics'?
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by Manoj Ladwa If the ongoing turf wars between the three ministers in charge of delivering Brexit is anything to go by, the UK is yet to get its act fully together. Liam Fox, who took charge as minister for international trade in the Theresa May led government recently, will…
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Human Rights, Boluchisthan, and China's role
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I don’t know the organisers of this protest but the cause is just. As we start to learn more about the decades of atrocities in this suppressed land, it’s evident that the world community has for too long either ignored or been ignorant of the suffering of the Boluchi people.…