Brand India – modernising a nation, securing its identity
It is generally accepted that the term ‘Brand India’ refers to the controlled activities that have repositioned India in the mind of the international business community. Figures released by the Commonwealth Business Council last week ...The politics of India-US Nuclear agreement
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress party has always seen the Nuclear agreement as strategically beneficial to India (after all, it was Manmohan Singh who negotiated the agreement with President Bush, and Mrs. ...
BRIC growth prospects
Labour supply dynamics will remain favourable in Brazil and India thanks to demographic trends and/or low urbanisation ratios. In Brazil and India the working age population will continue to expand until the middle of the current ...
Will the US Congress approve the India-US Nuclear agreement?
The New York Times (in a recent editorial) criticizes the India-US Nuclear agreement as too generous and a give away of the the store to India. Of course, this is exactly the opposite of the objections raised by the Communists and the ...
Ek Kaagaz: India’s First Online Single Music Release
Faith Records has launched India’s first online ad supported single music release titled ‘Ek Kaagaz‘ (means one paper in Hindi), which is the result of an online collaboration between San Francisco-based Devika and Delhi-based Pralay ...
India-US Nuclear Deal: The Iranian Factor
However, under the cover of “civilizational ties”, Iran has made deep inroads into the Shiite segment of Indian Muslim society whereas under the same cover India is trying to project its soft pro-Muslim profile to the Islamic world in ...
India: The First Victim
India is as warm and comfortable as ever. Over thirty years have passed since I roamed around in her cities and temples as a young long-haired white-cotton-trousered journalist cub, but coming back is easy. Things on the ground have not ...
The near implausibility of getting the India-US Nuclear agreement ...
Let us put aside the substance and merit (or lack thereof) of the proposed India-US Nuclear agreement. Let us examine plausibility of getting the India-US Nuclear agreement done now that the Indian government appears to want to get the ...
Asian (con)Fusion: India's North-Easterners Not Welcome Here?
By Andrew Buncombe Delhi's nightlife sure doesn't rank up there with that of Mumbai. But in recent years India's capital has seen a clutch of new places open up, some lasting longer than others. Indeed, one of the newest nightspots,...
India Loses Asia Cup 2008
Well, India lost the match to very good Sri Lankan side. Actually I didn’t even remember that there was an Asia Cup final today until while I saw Dhoni on the crease while surfing some of the channels . The match was really poised very ...
Betting on goodies from Brazil, Mexico
So much so, while most fund houses in India are reluctant to launch any new equity scheme following the market meltdown, ING Investment Management erstwhile ING Vysya Mutual Fund has offered to diversify and invest in that part of the ...
Volvo India head moves to Malaysia, replacement awaited
Analysts say that Volvo’s venture with Eicher motors for heavy trucks is a long-term strategy to increase market share in India but it would face margin pressures to gain it.
India less expensive than US
During bouts of risk aversion, it’s the markets where valuations are at a premium are the ones that suffer the most.
Pakistan, India and their nuclear bombs
India’s Brahmos missiles on display/Jan photo, B. Mathur India has an entirely different problem, but nonetheless one which stems from domestic politics. A nuclear deal with the United States which would have given its nuclear programme ...
Pakistan, India and their nuclear bombs
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) Criticising the Congress for its alleged failure on internal as well as external fronts, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former foreign minister Jaswant Singh Sunday said India was facing a threat ...