During Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to France last month, India signed two agreements related to the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant located in the western state of Maharashtra. One of these, a pre-engineering agreement signed with AREVA, Alstom and Nuclear Power Corporation of India, aims to bring greater clarity on...
Modi’s Visit to Canada Focuses on Trade, Investments, and Nuclear Ecosystems
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrived in Canada on Tuesday April 14 for a three-day tour of the country. He is the first Indian prime minister in more than 40 years to conduct a bilateral visit to Canada. He is scheduled to meet with political officials, business and financial...
News Corp Founder's Son James, Meets Prime Minister Modi
21st Century Fox Company CHief Operating Officer James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, CEO of Fox's Star India, met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Details of what was discussed at the meeting are not available. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Star India operates more than 40 networks, reaching...
UK-India Business Leader Says Doing Business in India Has Become Easier
The Times of India interviewed Patricia Hewitt, Chair, U.K. India Business Council, the business-led organization that works with the British government to promote bilateral trade between the U.K. and India. She said in the interview that “the election of the Narendra Modi government, with a decisive mandate for growth and...
Foreign Institutional Investors Discuss Concerns with Prime Minister Modi
Ahead of the 2015-16 Indian budget, finance minister Arun Jaitly convened a meeting to address the concerns of Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs). The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, and Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman U. K. Sinha along...
What costs less in India than in China?
CNN Money says: India's airline industry is a mess. Taxes are sky-high, infrastructure is poor and profit margins are razor thin. A string of carriers have gone out of business, and many others are struggling to stay afloat. For now, howevery, India has the least expensive flights on the earth....