Successful Round Table Session “Doing Business in India”

On Thursday 26 March 2015, NICCT organized a successful Round Table Session “Doing Business in India” at the World Trade Center Rotterdam. NICCT organized this event together with MKB Nederland (Rotterdam), Rotterdam Partners, VNO NCW West and WTC Rotterdam. The moderators for this event were Ward Massa and Bart Hergaarden of IndiaConnected.   Sixteen companies […]

Cabinet nod for 101 inland waterways to be declared national waterways

Business Standard: March 26, 2015   New Delhi: The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday gave its approval to enact a legislation to declare 101 inland waterways as national waterways for navigation. This is to create a logistic supply chain with intermodal (rail, road and waterways) connectivity, according to a release.   […]

Asian Development Outlook 2015 – Financing Asian Future Growth

Report of Asian Development Bank 2015 which forecasts that the 6.3% rate of gross domestic product (GDP) expansion achieved in 2014 will continue into 2015 and 2016. The steady outlook for the region sees growth picking up enough in India and most member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to compensate for moderating growth in the People’s Republic […]

India’s economy likely to grow 8% in the next fiscal report

MUMBAI: The country’s economy is likely to clock 8 percent growth in the next financial year and 8.3 percent in 2016-17, says a report. “India is the only BRIC country, where growth will accelerate, to 8 percent in FY16 and 8.3 percent in FY17, based on revised data series,” Fitch said in its report on […]

Dutch Companies in India

To find an overview of Dutch Companies operating in India, please go to http://india.nlambassade.org/bijlagen/dutch-companies-in-india.html (List updated on 22 April 2015)  

IMF ups India’s growth forecast to 7.2 per cent for current fiscal

Times of India: March 12, 2015 New Delhi: India’s economy is recovering and its ability to withstand external shocks has improved. Terming Indian economy a ‘bright spot’ on the global economic landscape, IMF on Wednesday raised its growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.2 per cent, even as it called for steps to revitalize […]

Growing Indian Community in The Netherlands

This article is intended to deal with the growth of the Indian community in the Netherlands and the role which the Netherlands India Association (NIA) has played in meeting the socio-cultural needs of this community. The article will also deal with the contribution which the Indian community in the Netherlands and the NIA, have made […]

Bottom Line – A New Perspective

An article written by Mr. R.L. Lakhina. The widely accepted and traditional view of the sole purpose of a business is to maximize profit for the owners or the share-holders of a business. When the businesses are small and local in nature the above view about the purpose of a commercial venture is valid to […]

Sixty-four years of the Indian Republic its achievements

India became a sovereign democratic republic on the 26th of January, 1950. That is a momentous date not only in the history of India but in the modern history of the world. On that date one-sixth of the global population, living in India, became complete masters of their own destiny and adopted a democratic form […]