Economy

Interview: Singapore businessman and investor, Dr T Chandroo says education quality in India has improved in recent years. Dr T. Chandroo, chairman and chief executive officer of Modern Montessori International (MMI), an education brand from the UK with centres across...

Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and other high-ranking officials from both governments, along with captains of industry from both countries, will address the U.S.-India Business Council on the occasion...

Singapore’s Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) is working on a business model for Indian states to enable them to compete with South East Asian investment destinations. The ACI, a think tank of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, will...

India’s July industrial production (IP) surpassed expectations to rise 4.2 per cent year-on-year from revised June’s 4.4 per cent (vs 3.8 per cent earlier), says Singapore’s DBS banking group. April-July average stands at 3.5 per cent, nearly steady from the...

Inaugural CEO Roundtable on Manufacturing in ‘New” India: Can Singapore companies benefit from the ‘Make in India’ thrust.  Investors must see India as a part of their global strategy, given the ever increasing domestic demand and expanding exports, a senior...

Singapore’s DBS banking group, which recently soft launched its online and mobile banking in India, now plans to develop digital space in the country and is already in talks with some of the companies on this ambitious project. It has...

Political grand-standing on the alleged complicity of a Central Minister and two State Chief Ministers, all belonging to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has stalled the passage of a reforms-linked Constitution Amendment Bill in India’s Parliament. To salvage this bill,...

The Reserve Bank of India has granted an “in-principle” approval to Tech Mahindra Ltd to set up a Payments Bank under the Guidelines for Licensing of Payments Banks issued on November 27, 2014. The bank will be an independent unit...

Axis Bank 46.36 DBS Bank  46.28 HDFC Quick Remit 46.13 ICICI Money2India 46.43 Remit Guru 46.39 Remit2India 46.18 SBI Singapore 46.27 Sourced from online links. fii-news.com  

A number of new initiatives announced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi now, with the phased goal of transforming the overall quality of life in the country’s urban centres, have been conceptualised better than his earlier ‘Make in India’ campaign....