Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has directed officials to speed up reforms that will help convert record foreign investments into functioning industries in the shortest possible time. Chairing a review meeting of the ‘Ease of Doing Business War Room’ at Sahyadri Guest House, the Chief Minister emphasized reducing the number of permits required for
India is expecting larger pools of FDI and FII from the UAE, even as investors from the West Asian country are looking to set up a food park in Gujarat. Addressing a press conference in Abu Dhabi, India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that data centres, technology, banking, startups, and green energy are
Cybersecurity experts have warned that Nigerian banks must urgently invest more in defences as cybercrime continues to drain billions from the sector. According to a report by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), financial institutions in Nigeria lost N52.26 billion to fraud in 2024 , and that represents a 195% increase in loss compared with N17.-67
The COP30 climate summit in Belém will put adaptation to a warming world front and centre, with the aim of moving negotiations from technical debate to deciding how to measure adaptation progress and accelerating action on the ground, according to Alice Amorim, Brazil’s COP30 programme director. At the mid-year UN talks in Bonn, countries reached
By JAMIE BULLEN, LIVE COVERAGE EDITOR and JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR and DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT and CHARLIE SPIERING, US POLITICAL REPORTER and REBECCA ENGLISH, ROYAL EDITOR and NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT Updated: 16:55, 18 September 2025 Donald Trump has admitted he has a ‘few disagreements’ with
President Nikos Christodoulides travelled to the Canadian city of Toronto on Thursday morning to meet with Canadian entrepreneurs and investors in the finance, research, innovation and real estate sectors, with the aim of attracting investment to Cyprus. “The Republic of Cyprus is currently presented as a dynamic and resilient economy with high growth rates, strong
Councillors have been told that the fund’s growth remains lower overall than other benchmarked funds with one marker showing an annualised return of just over 7 per cent for the Dorset fund, compared to a benchmark of around 9 per cent. Growth in more recent months has slowed and is now standing at around 3.5per
The Deputy Chief of Staff in charge of Administration, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has reassured members of the diaspora of the government’s commitment to safeguard their businesses and investments in Ghana. She stressed that their investments were not only secure because Ghana was their home, but also because the government was building a conducive environment
On Wednesday 17 September, Camden’s Cabinet will put into action strategies and investments that will help support vulnerable residents, bring 500 new electric vehicle charging points to the borough, and keep Camden’s finances resilient while funding the vital services that serve our communities. Watch the Cabinet meeting live from 7pm here. Over 500 new electric
During US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom, the two countries are set to formalise the ‘Tech Prosperity Deal’ that would see US firms led by Microsoft invest $42 billion in the UK in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and civil nuclear energy. US President Donald Trump’s state visit to