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Saturday, August 9, 2025
TopicForeign investment

Topic: foreign investment

Apple and Amazon show the contradictions in India’s quest to lure foreign investment

Successes such as Foxconn aside, tales of frustrated plans & bureaucratic bottlenecks are holding India back from a China-1990s-style boom.

In 21st century, infrastructure is the new route to ‘colonisation’, US study says

Need for foreign aid can often turn nations into battlegrounds for big global players at the cost of their own interests, says a study by Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

All that is wrong with Modi govt’s obsession with Ease of Doing Business rankings

Ease of Doing Business rankings paint a misleading picture, but Modi government wants to focus on appearance over reality.

India to regain world’s fastest growing economy tag with 7.3% GDP growth this year: IMF

IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook report has praised the economic and business reforms, including GST, introduced by the current government.

Brokers urge Sebi to delay extended derivative trading

Local and foreign brokers have raised concerns over their readiness and the costs of implementing the proposal.

Modi makes a business trip to Nordic free-trade bastion

The one-day summit in Stockholm is an opportunity for Nordic businesses to sign trade deals with the Modi govt, which has been resistant to deals that could flood India with foreign goods. 

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.