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Blogs & News
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Building India into a Global Arbitration Hub
- October 10, 2020
- Posted by: Drishti Sharma
- Category: Global growth
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Over the past few years, the government has taken a pro-active approach to promote India as an arbitration hub.
With a view to revamp the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ICADR”), which was set up in 1995 to promote alternative dispute resolution mechanism in India the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament.
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Can CSR help in mitigating COVID-19?
- September 30, 2020
- Posted by: Vishnu Krishna
- Category: Industries
Ever since the Companies Act of 2013 was notified, India assumed a pioneering role in channelizing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds in alignment with national priorities.
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TCS on Sale of Goods – Increased Compliance Burden on Taxpayers
- September 17, 2020
- Posted by: Ajay Chaurasia
- Category: Legal & Compliances
TDS and TCS have been a reliable weapon for the Government over the years serving the varied objectives of preventing tax evasion, widening the tax base and ensuring steady revenue collection for the Government. Thus, over the years, the Government’s clear intention has been to bring as many transactions under the ambit of TDS/TCS as possible.
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Handy Tips and Tricks for Virtual Calls
- September 5, 2020
- Posted by: Nidhi Bhalla
- Category: Global growth
Work did not stop due to the 2020 lockdown in response to COVID-19. It certainly hasn’t for #Octagonaindia and same for the rest of the world. Instead, there was an overnight transformation from office workers into telecommuters. We were all forced to adapt as quickly and as creatively as possible. This led to moving many processes, activities and events from the real world into the digital world.
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Money Matters
- August 1, 2020
- Posted by: Bansari Joshi
- Category: Global growth
Derivative trading started in India in 2000. If we had told you then, there could be a Derivative-style incentive plan for the Employees as well, would you have believed us?
I wouldn’t have believed us either. But the growing popularity of Phantom Stock Options is proving otherwise.
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Kicking off Circular Economy System in India
- July 18, 2020
- Posted by: Vishnu Krishna
- Category: Politics & economics
With the Covid-19 pandemic refusing to mitigate, Indian economy finds itself at a cusp…on one side there is the path that successive governments have taken to make the country stronger economically and on the other side is to think outside the square and have the courage to make some bold decisions that have impact on generations to come in terms of sustainability.
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Change in MSME Landscape-Beyond COVID-19
- June 29, 2020
- Posted by: Drishti Sharma
- Category: Industries
In the recent times India has emerged as an influential country showing strong development and improving its standing on international stage. The economic growth of India is highly dependent on manufacturing and service sector and the backbone of these sectors in India are Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).
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Can we turn the pandemic into a BIG Opportunity
- June 14, 2020
- Posted by: Vishnu Krishna
- Category: Global growth
It is almost cliched to say that the world could be staring at the worst economic depression since the 1930s. Sure enough, the downturn has already started to begun. International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting advanced economies (that includes USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, UK & Canada) to contract by almost 6% in 2020. BRICS nations aren’t faring any better with the downfall being the range of -5% to 1%.
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India’s Trash to Cash Opportunity
- August 26, 2019
- Posted by: Vishnu Krishna
- Category: Industries
With 62 million tonnes of municipal solid waste being generated per annum, India is sitting on a major crisis & a mega opportunity. Learn about India’s waste to energy industry and business opportunities.
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US – India: Thinking Beyond Trade Wars
- August 16, 2019
- Posted by: Vishnu Krishna
- Category: Global growth
Ever since Prime Minister Modi was re-elected, the one thing that just refuses to fade away is the news related to the strategic relationship between these two democracies. A day after Modi was sworn in for a second term, the Trump administration rescinded preferential trade privileges through which $6 billion worth of Indian goods had duty free access to the US market. India responded by imposing tariffs on over 20 items imported from the US with a total value of about US$ 1.4 billion.