Category: Business
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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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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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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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India must institutionalise approach to trade negotiations
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As India takes its place as the fastest growing economy within the global economic order, it is about time the government looked at appointing a dedicated “Indian Trade Representative”, argues India Inc. CEO. Does India need a dedicated office of a Trade Representative (TR) akin to the United States Trade…
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Rebalancing Trade: Riding the tide of opportunities
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I’m reminded of a famous line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which says: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” We are now riding such…
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India’s biggest tax reform: A guide for foreign investors
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When Prime Minister Modi came to power he promised to tackle ‘tax terrorism” – a recognition that India’s taxation regime was too complicated, cumbersome, inefficient, and significantly prone to corruption. India’s parliament this week has passed the most ambitious tax reform measures in its history. With the rollout of the…
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Two leading Indian Businessmen, Two differing views on Brexit. One of opportunity, one of concern
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Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group, the auto to aerospace Indian conglomerate with operations in Britain, said the world was behaving “as if a tsunami wave has hit” which he viewed as an over-reaction. He said: “My hunch is that you’re going to see a fair amount of recovery in…
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Backtrack On 'Give NHS £350m EU Money' Promise
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U-Turn on NHS pledge is frankly sickening as many vulnerable people & their families who rely on the NHS would have been persuaded by this pledge (oh, now we are being told it was merely a “slogan”). #WhatsThePlanBoris? Read More…