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Excerpts of the speech by the British High Commissioner to India Sir Dominic Asquith at an Interactive Session on ‘Education, Skills and Entrepreneurship’ with students of Heritage Institute of Technology

Kolkata Thursday 24 August 2017 Delighted to be here and interact with this next gen group from different educational streams. The UK and India have a long relationship and we are looking towards partnering India in the future particularly in Education, Skills and Entrepreneurship. I am glad to know that a significant number of …

Excerpts of the Speech by Mr Scott Furssedonn-Wood, British Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata,

Excerpts of the Speech by Mr Scott Furssedonn-Wood, British Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata, at the Session on ‘Connecting Indian companies to the digital economy in the UK’ at the NASSCOM Product Enclave, Kolkata 18 July 2014 Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I would like to congratulate NASSCOM’s regional chapter for bringing the Product Conclave …

Excerpts of the speech by Mr Scott Furssedonn-Wood, British Deputy High Commissioner to Eastern India, at the ‘National Seminar on Renewable Energy for Rural Development’ Organised by Ashden India Renewable Energy Collective

24th June 2014 – Hotel Hyatt Regency, Kolkata Hon’ble Minister Mr Manish Gupta, Dignitaries on the dais, Ladies and Gentlemen INTRODUCTION I would like to thank Ashden India Renewable Energy Collective for convening this important and timely conference. I am delighted to be part of this. Improving rural India’s access to clean energy translates into …

Steel remains the best solution based on a number of criteria, including sustainability: Mr Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO ArcelorMittal – Speech delivered at Steel Success Strategies XXIX

New York, 17 June 2014 Good morning everyone. I am delighted to be here with all of you today. I missed last year’s event, so it’s good to be back. Today I want to speak to you about two main points: one about the material and the second about the general economic health. I have …

S K Birla at L N Birla Memorial Award for Corporate Excellence

I welcome you all to this conference on global corporate sustainability and coupled with that the lecture on Education at Crossroads. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Prof Partha Pratim Chakrabarty director of IIT Kharagpur who has kindly taken the trouble to join us this morning and deliver the keynote address. After our inauguration …

Smart Governance: Solutions for Today’s Global Economy – Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Oxford, United Kingdom, December 5, 2013 As prepared for delivery Good afternoon! I am so pleased to be here with you today, where I spent very happy years earning my DPhil in economics. This is a magical place, full of beauty and clever people. My only regret is that I left too soon. Fortunately, my …

Text of the Speech of the Union Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram at Xxth Conference of CBI & State Anti Corruption Bureaux on “Building A Criminal Justice System to Deal with Financial Crimes”

Following is the full Text of the Speech of the Union Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram at XXth Conference of CBI & State Anti-Corruption Bureaux on “ Building a Criminal Justice System to deal with Financial Crimes” here today : “I am happy to address this international conference organised by the CBI on “Evolving common strategies to combat corruption …

Speech by the Union Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram at the Announcement of First Closure of IDFC’s Second Infrastructure Fund in Washington D.C.

Following is the text of the Speech by the Union Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram at the announcement of “First Closure of IDFC’s second Infrastructure Fund in Washington, D.C. yesterday: “Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m honoured to be here today amidst this distinguished gathering. I look back to the day in 1997 when IDFC was established by …

Speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the presentation of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2012 to the President of the Republic of Liberia, H.E. Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

It is a privilege and honour for me to present the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2012 to Her Excellency, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “for serving as an example and an inspiration to many a woman in Africa and beyond and for ensuring the return of peace, democracy and …

Speech of the Prime Minister at the Inaugural Session of the 46th AGM of the Asian Development Bank

Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s speech at the Inaugural Session of the 46th AGM of the Asian Development Bank in Greater Noida today: “On behalf of the Government and people of India, I warmly welcome you all to the 46th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the …