Gateway Features
The Bohra transcultural network
Courtesy: SBUT
India and Yemen are the spiritual homeland of the Dawoodi Bohra community, and the roots of its religious, political, economic, and cultural history, but the turn of the 21st century has witnessed the community’s marked outward immigration from former strongholds in the east to the west. From older communities in India, Pakistan, East Africa, Sri Lanka and the Gulf countries, Bohra youngsters are seeking opportunities in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Australia. This is read more
Finally, an EU Indo-Pacific strategy
Courtesy: European Union
The EU has finally evolved an Indo-Pacific (I-P) strategy. This covers the perspective of all 27 countries, and emerges from a virtual meeting of their foreign ministers, which approved the policy on 19 April. It recommits the EU politically to the I-P region and aims to contribute to its stability, security, prosperity and sustainable development. These are anchored on ‘shared values ‘of democracy, rule of law, human rights read more
India at the Arctic Council
Courtesy: Arctic Council Flickr
In 2019, India was re-elected as an Observer to the Arctic Council,, a multilateral organisation consisting of eight littoral Arctic nations that works towards promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic states, its indigenous population, and other inhabitants on sustainable development and environmental protection. India was first granted the Observer status in 2013, along with five other nations. During its previous tenure, India has had privileged access to Arctic Council’s side-events and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate read more
Siemens, Kalwa: Successful brownfield transformation
Courtesy: Twitter|@SiemensIndia
Siemens India, a subsidiary of Germany’s Siemens AG has been operating in India for over 150 years. It has 23,000 employees, annual revenues of $1.5 billion, 22 factories, eight centres of competence and 11 R&D centres in India. Over the past few years, Siemens AG has been diversifying from conventional engineering products and services, to becoming a total technology and digital solution provider across all its verticals. Siemens is also amongst the top 10 software companies in the world. By read more
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Events
Gateway Events
9 April 2021
Chinese Investment Map
Global Events
21 February 2021
Joint Press Release: China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting
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Research
Digital manufacturing is the next wave of business globalisation, which, post-pandemic is not just blind automation to save costs but the smart use of digital tools to modernise industry and create good quality jobs. Digital manufacturing is the next leap for India’s tech leadership - the first being the software outsourcing movement in the 1990s. This time around, government incentives are aligning with industry interests. It offers India a chance to reposition itself globally, and play a leadership role.
Foreign Affairs
A yawning gap has opened up between what countries know about the risks of climate change and what they are doing to reduce them. In the riskier new era of climate change, the longer countries take to close that gap, the more painful and deadly the outcomes.
Book Reviews
This book examines concisely and readably how the discovery of oil and natural gas transformed the six oil kingdoms of the Gulf, but profligate energy consumption at home challenged the basis of this very prosperity. It goes on to look at how these countries dealt with the economic crises that struck them
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