India, UK Aim To Double Bilateral Trade By 2030
Last month, India and Britain opened a new chapter in bilateral ties by launching a new Enhanced Trade Partnership, which also paved the way for a future Free Trade Agreement UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Wednesday said both India and the UK are working towards doubling bilateral trade by 2030. India-UK bilateral... Read More
Tide commits £100 million investment and 1,000 jobs to India market entry
Tide, UK’s business financial platform, has selected India as its first international market, with a fully-fledged launch early next year. Tide announced that it will create over 1,000 jobs in India over the next five years. It also plans to invest more than £100m in India as part of the hiring surge, thus contributing to the... Read More
56,000 visas issued to Indian students in 2020: Priti Patel
‘A programme for the post study route is also being launched which is basically a post study work route that will bring the brightest and the best’ “Last year, we issued 56,000 visas to Indian students. That is a 13 per cent increase from the previous year and that is also through the pandemic. A... Read More
West read Emergency wrong. India’s democracy mattered little to US, UK, Russia
Archival documents on the Emergency show the incredible ease with which national capitals across the world pivoted to the new realities of India’s constitutional autocracy. On 30 June 1975, a daily intelligence brief shared with the United States President Gerald Ford began with a short analysis on India. One thousand people had been arrested since... Read More
UK firms see Aatmanirbhar Bharat as an opportunity to do business in India
UKIBC chair Richard Heald said commitment of both governments can help businesses to plug into and support Aatmanirbhar Bharat. About 77% of UK companies believe that Aatmanirbhar Bharat is an opportunity for them to do more business with India, according to a survey conducted by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) at a time both... Read More
Indian symbols adorn UK coat of arms
A British peer of Indian origin, who famously took up his seat in the House of Lords by swearing his oath of allegiance on the Rig Veda, has broken new ground through the design of a personal coat of arms containing Indian symbols and Sanskrit text. Lord Jitesh Gadhia, who became the youngest Indian parliamentarian... Read More
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Portugal limits UK travel, stops classes amid virus surge
Portugal’s battle to contain the surging Covid-19 delta variant has prompted it to put the United Kingdom on its red list for travel, speed up vaccinations in Lisbon and cancel school classes in the southern Algarve region, its main tourist destination. Portugal has in recent days been reporting the highest number of daily new coronavirus... Read More
Hong Kong to ban passenger flights from UK to curb virus
Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the UK starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the UK starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus. It... Read More
India’s offensive cyber capability more focused on Pakistan than China, UK think tank says
Report by International Institute for Strategic Studies says India made only ‘modest progress’ in developing a cybersecurity policy, and is aware of threats it faces from China. India’s offensive cyber capability is “Pakistan-focused” and “regionally effective”, and not tuned towards China, despite a “sharp increase in Chinese activity against Indian networks”, says a new report... Read More