India Business Summit: Special discount of 33% for Indian Newslink readers
Venkat Raman
Auckland, September 15, 2023
India Business Summit next fortnight: The Auckland Business Chamber and the Wellington-based High Commission of India are organising The India Business Summit at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland City on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will be the Chief Guest at the half-day Summit which will outline the existing and emerging opportunities in India for businesses, investors and professionals. He will be joined by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins National Party Leader Christopher Luxon and Indian High Commissioner Neeta Bhushan as Keynote Speakers. While Mr Hipkins and Mr Luxon are expected to reiterate their resolve to visit India within the first 100 days after the new government is elected following the general election on October 14, 2023, Ms Bhushan will outline the programmes of the Indian government to improve its infrastructure and facilitate foreign investment.
Fresh on the heels of a highly successful G20 Summit under its Presidency, India has emerged as the most significant powerhouse outside the Anglo-American-European trilogy and is poised to become the third-biggest economy by 2030. With sweeping reforms covering its financial and investment markets, New Delhi has set the stage for global players to enter its ever-expanding market. In addition, India’s population is extremely youthful and its skilled workforce offers the most attractive human capital in the world.
Please click on the code that appears in the advertisement accompanying this piece to qualify for the special 33% discount on the delegate fee to attend the India Business Summit which includes the Gala Dinner in the evening.
We have led our September 15, 2023 Digital Edition with the India Business Summit story.
The Indian Newslink Opinion Poll Two: Indian Newslink readers have once again overwhelmingly chosen Christopher Luxon as the next Prime Minister and National as the Party of their choice to lead the new government.
There were 272 respondents to the Survey, of which 70.4% said that they would like Mr Luxon to be the new leader of the country, up from 65.8% registered in the August 2023 Poll. ACT Party Leader David Seymour secured 9.7%, down from 10.7%. Support for Chris Hipkins also dropped to 13.2% from 17.6% a month ago. New Zealand First Leader was the fourth choice with 4.7% of the respondents voting in his favour, a marginal rise from 4.3%. He was followed at a distance by Greens Party Co-Leaders Marama Davidson at 1.6% and 0.4% respectively.
The Survey, held from August 25 to September 7, 2023, was in a voluntary, electronic format, with respondents required to answer five, simple multiple-choice questions. While the participants had sufficient time to respond to the questions and answer them on their own time, the questionnaire could be completed in less than 45 seconds.
G20 Summit speaks for the Global South: From all accounts, the Annual G20 Summit held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10, 2023 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a resounding success. It helped set on course a series of political, fiscal and socio-economic measures, which will spell a new era of cooperation among existing and emerging economic powerhouses. The fact that the Final Declaration was reached on the first day without much haggling (not at the Summit at least) was a testimony to India’s superb diplomacy and its genuine concern to achieve harmony and concerted action on a global scale.
Since its Independence in 1947, India’s foreign policy has prioritised relations with the poor world, chiefly through its leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement. Under Mr Modi, India has renewed this focus through a promise to represent and lead what has come to be called the Global South.
He has been championing the cause of the Global South and the G20 Summit became the centre-stage for its voice to be heard.
About a fortnight earlier at the BRICs Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa (which chaired the meeting) declared that its goal was to ‘advance the agenda of the Global South,’ which was also a strong point of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Summit of the Group of Seven Wealthy Democracies.
The right of a country to change its name: And then we have to take the view, somewhat audaciously, that it is the business of a country to change its name and that no one other than its people, has the right to oppose it. That is the crux of our editorial on the subject, with a clincher at the end.
The editorial said that over the past week, since the word Bharat appeared on name plates and official invitations of the central government in Delhi, rumour mills and speculative machines have been doing overtime. Prime Minister Narendra Modi comfortably (and perhaps authoritatively) sat behind the nameplate Bharat (instead of India) as he represented his country in chairing the G20 Summit of leaders of as many countries. Invitations to the Gala State Dinner, the gold-embossed Menu and almost everything relating to the international conference came under the ‘Bharat’ reference.
The Opposition Parties, led by the Congress Party slammed the move as ‘divisive while Mr Modi and his colleagues prepared to place a Motion in the special session of Lok Sabha (the Lower House of Parliament) later this month. It will be carried since both Houses of Parliament are dominated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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