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UIDAI denies security breach

The Unique Identification Authority of India, which manages the country’s Aadhaar system, has dismissed claims of data vulnerability made by the news website ZDNet..

Foreign ownership in Indian military

In a renewed push to attract foreign investment, India plans to allow foreign companies own bigger stakes in defense joint ventures. With this, the country aims to turn into..

Indian economy and beyond

Synergia Foundation in collaboration with the Harvard Business School organized a round-table discussion on the topic ‘Budget & Beyond: What Next for Indian Economy?

Choke Points - Food & Nutritional Security

The Synergia Foundation jointly organized a round table discussion along with the Agriculture department, Government of Karnataka on ‘Choke Points: Food and Nutritional..

Budget & Beyond: What next for the Indian Economy?

In February 2017, Synergia Forum hosted Prof. Narendar Pani, National Institute of Advanced Studies; and Dr. Parthasarathi Shome, advisor to the Indian Finance Minister..

What about public healthcare in India?

The Indian government has introduced an ambitious new healthcare plan that aims to cover the medical care for 500,000 people in the country. The government has called..

Security a must for economic growth

The economy of a nation can only progress and grow if it can secure itself from multiple threat vectors that can derail its sovereignty. Suresh Prabhu..

India is more business-friendly

India has jumped 30 spots and has been ranked 100 in World Ease of Doing Business index for 2018. This has been attributed to a series of reforms improving the..

Betting on solar

In October 2017, State Bank of India, sanctioned loans worth $357 million to seven companies for installations of solar rooftops with aggregate capacity of 575 megawatt. India is a developing..

Record high oil imports

India’s oil imports have hit a record high in September 2017 as the nation imported 4.83 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil..

Reviving Indian economy

The Indian economy continues to struggle as its growth has diminished in 2017. The International Monetary Fund has downgraded its growth rate for 2017 to 6.7%..

Inflation vs Interest

The Reserve Bank of India kept has key repo interest rates unchanged as they have forecasted that widely inflation would accelerate beyond its 4% target in the current and..

Island of calm

Located roughly three hours from New Delhi & Neemrana, an industrial estate in Rajasthan, provides Japanese companies with largely uninterrupted power and water supplies. It also offers a…

Relocating F-16 Production to India

Lockheed Martin announced in advance of a U.S. visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it had struck a joint-venture agreement with Tata Advanced Systems to move its F-16 production line to…

Will GST cause chaos?

On 1st July 2017 India will adopt the Goods and Service Tax, a new tax code, which would turn India into a single market. As India approaches the countdown various businessmen, accountants and…

Hard negotiations

head of Modi visit, a group of US lawmakers have backed medical device makers by urging India to reconsider its decision to reduce prices of heart stents. This will be one of the key issues discussed…

Market access vs manufacturing

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came into power, he vowed to companies and businesses in India and across the world that India will become a far friendlier landscape for investments than…

Make families pay

From July 1 of this year, Saudi Arabia will be collecting a new tax from expatriates and their dependents. The tax, which has been called ‘family tax’, will particularly affect the 41 lakh Indians…

India-Middle East - A New Dimension

On 10th June, at Synergia forum, a talk was given by Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad centering on ‘Turmoil and Terror in West Asia, PS Raghavan gave his intervention on the new dimension in the India-Middle…

Coca Cola the agriculture investor

The world renowned beverage company, Coca Cola is all set to invest Rs 11,000 crore rupees in the next five years in the agricultural ecosystem of India. This new venture into the food processing and…