March 8th 🇳🇴💃🏼🇮🇳 Gender equality stands at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2023, achieving gender parity will take another 131 years. As we approach 8 March, we're excited to shed light on the journey of Kristin Andresen and the inspiration behind her remark…

Listen to Ambassador May-Elin Stener in conversation with our founder, Rina Sunder! As The Modern India (Det Moderne India) are gearing up for the World Economic Forum we invited the Ambassador of Norway to India for a conversation on India - Nordics. 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇩🇰🇮🇳 There is significant scope for future growth between India and the nordics. There is …

Wilhelmsen Ship Management operates 250+ ships in global trade. Supporting their operational excellence, Indian seafarers plays an important role. In this episode, we have with us Lasse Kvarsnes Hansen, Global Head of Marine HR in Wilhelmsen Ship Management. Rina Sunder interviews our guest for all our listerners focusing on how India is a Strategi…

A packed crowd gathered for the debate on India’s politihus and economy - why should we care? KÅKÅ|nomics host many debates to a broad audience how they see the world develop. Joining economists are psychologists, technologists, philosophers, historians, journalists, artists, politicians and comedians. This year they had a strong focus on India. Th…

This month The Modern India (Det Moderne India) was co organizer at the International Climate Summit held on 14-15 September, 2023 in New Delhi. The Conference had more than 60,000 people attending physically and virtually combined! 60 000! This mega event unfolded at the prestigious Vigyan Bhawan, a venue reserved for only the most distinguished g…

Vi i Norge kan når vi vil! Det fikk vi bevis for da Sadhguru besøkte Norge juni i år. Vi visste en stund at vi kom til å få storfint besøk fra India. Tidspunktet visste vi nesten også, men ikke om dette besøket faktisk ble noe av. Endelig dato og bekreftelse kom først seks dager før besøket startet. Over 50 selskaper møtte Sadhguru på Stortinget. F…

On one side we are screaming after talent on the other we have exceptional internationals not being fully utilised. In a recent statement by Hans Christian Holte Director of NAV states we are lacking 53 000 employees in different industries today. In addition, we know Norway has a big challenge when it comes to recruitment of tech talent with a sho…

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Welcome to The Modern India’s Podcast episode on March 8, International Women’s Day with a very special guest, Rolee Aranya, Professor in Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at NTNU. Do listen to the podcast episode to find answers to the following questions: What are the common challenges when it comes to implementation of sma…

Norway and India share a long maritime history, and maritime issues are central to the bilateral dialogue between our two countries. Our guest for this episode is Cristina. Cristina Saenz de Santa Maria is responsible for DNV’s maritime operations in South East Asia Pacific & India since October 2017 in her capacity as Vice President, Regional Mana…

Sustainability Dialogues The Standing Committee on Energy and Environment of the Norwegian Parliamentary visited India last week. Our guest today is Nikolai Astrup. Nikolai is a MP, a Norwegian politician representing the Conservative Party. Astrup - the first person to hold the post as the minister of international development for in years. India …

The government of India is hosting the 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention from January 9 to January 11 on the theme - 'Diaspora : Reliable partners for India's progress in Amrit Kaal.' On this special occasion, NewsX presented a special one-hour telecast from 6 pm to 7 pm ist on Monday, January 9, to highlight the successes and …

In light of the objectionable comments made by Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto against PM Modi, there has been outrage across India. We are conducting a live discussion. We are aiming to bring together Indian diaspora to share their views on how Indians across the world must rally against Pakistan's disrespect on international forums, ar…

Our built environment is also one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and drives a significant amount of air pollution in our cities. The ‘Clean Construction’ approach promotes the reduction of air pollutants from construction activities. The Government of India launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), in 2019, that a…

OSLO-the first city in the world that began with the first zero-emission urban construction by using only electrified construction equipment. Oslo is also leading the Clean Construction Forum @ C40. New C40 research reveals that fossil gas use contributed almost as much as coal power plants to premature deaths in 2020 and current NDCs would result …

Norway India Sustainabilty Dialogues We have with us: Kristin Skofteland, Chief Commercial Officer & Legal Counsel for Beyonder AS & Soumya Kukreti, CEO of Midwest Energy Private Limited. Beyonder designs and manufactures safer battery solutions based on Norwegian sawdust, with high power, fast charging and a long lifetime. Produced without cobalt …

Save Soil is a global movement launched by Sadhguru to address the soil crisis, by bringing together people from around the world to stand up for Soil Health. Furthermore, it supports leaders of all nations to institute national policies and actions toward increasing the organic content in cultivable Soil. Agriculture, deforestation, and other fact…

This episode is the speech by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the International Climate Summit 2022 held in Bergen on 30-31st August. International Climate Summit 2022 is an initiative of the Indo-Norwegian partnership with a special focus on exploring ‘Opportunities for Green Hydrogen in India’. It aimed to present the next-generation opportunitie…

Save Soil on India’s Independence Day!! DMI and Norad are hosting a Save Soil debate at Arendalsuka. DMI is celebrating India's 75th Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Independence Day at Arendalsuka to discuss Save Soil - a global movement launched by Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru JV. Sadhguru is a yogi and a mystic a man whose passion spills into everyth…

Sustainability Dialogues Make in India is an initiative by the Government of India to make and encourage companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products made in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing. The Make in India initiative was launched by Prime Minister Modi in 2014. Cochin Shipyard Ltd has built two autonomou…

Sustainability Dialogues The Klemetsrud CO2 capture and storage project will be the world’s first waste-to-energy plant with full-scale CCS by 2026. Our guest for this episode of Norway India Sustainabilty Dialogues is Jannicke Gerner Bjerkås. So much is happening in the Carbon capture landscape! (ONGC) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited signe…

Sustainability Dialogues Cities form networks, engage in dialogue with counterparts, facilitate public diplomacy, share best practices & encourage collaboration. Find answers to the following in this podcast- About C40 and its work. How does C40 use city diplomacy to help cities meet their climate ambitions? Cities earn their membership through the…

Sustainability Dialogues Oslo is the first city in the world that has developed a dedicated climate budget which serves as the governance tool for its climate work. Many cities are following Oslo’s climate leadership in action. Get to know our podcast guest: Heidi Sørensen Heidi Sørensen is the Director of the Climate Agency, City of Oslo. In her y…

Millions have watched Pose on HBO. In India, people don’t watch! Government acts! While recognition of genders outside of male and female has only recently been discussed in Western societies, in the Indian society, people of non-binary gender expressions have played important roles for over 2000 years. India's Supreme Court has ruled that transgen…

Awesome conversation with the President of the Storting of Norway, Masud Gharahkhani. Mr. Masud Gharahkhani is the country's second highest ranked person, after the king. The President is what we would describe as a male ally: A man who will advocate for women even when there are no women in the room. We need more men like him, Men who walk the tal…

Listen in as we talk to Aliah from Raw portraiture about personal branding and building a community of empowered women.

Women will drive India´s future as India now officially has more females than males. In Norway, many high profile leaders have joined the Norwegian campaign #arnekampanjen. The information campaign is inspired by a Dutch LinkedIn campaign called Peter. There are more leaders in the Netherlands named Peter than there are female leaders in total. Amo…

India is a multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-racial, multi-cultural country. Its secular status is, however, a heated topic for debate today. India has a long and mostly honorable tradition of using soft power in its diplomacy. Religion plays a very central and definitive role in Indian society and culture. It can often be seen to influence bus…

India now officially has more females than males. There has been a demographic shift. According to latest data released by the Indian government from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), there are now 1,020 women for every 1,000 men. Women’s economic empowerment is highly connected to poverty reduction because women tend to invest their earnin…

It was fantastic to have Atle Vidar Nagel Johansen, EVP & CEO for Orkla Foods, with us for our upcoming podcast on ESG.(Environmental Social Governance) Atle has worked 25+ years in various leadership positions in the Orkla Group; - in finance, marketing and general management. He served on the Executive Management #Board of Orkla as EVP since 2012…

At COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference, countries committed to new, ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions this decade. Delivering on these promises will rely on the development, financing and scale up of green technologies. China and India, the two biggest producers, consumers and importers of coal, sparked the last-minute drama …

I sat down with Nupur Singh to talk about all things Social media Check out her Insta: @socialnupur, @encreativemedia, @browngirlacad

We have with us Chief Information Officer of Posten Norge, Arne Erik Berntzen. ARNE ERIK BERNTZEN is the CIO at Posten Norge. His passion is the interaction between technologies and business development and how compnaies can grow in a sustainable way. He has experience from consulting services and different roles within postal and logistic operatio…

We have with us Abhishek Thepade. Abhishek Thepade comes from India and Joined DNB Asset Management in 2008. He is currently the portfolio manager for Emerging market funds at DNB. He has over 12 years of experience in investing and currently is responsible for investments into Asian markets like India, China, Korea and Taiwan. HE has a MSc in Fina…

Dfavo® - formerly known as studyportal.io - has developed a fast, easy to use online service that enables access to education worldwide. By digitizing the application services the team have developed a popular solution to make international student recruitment both secure and transparent. This is clean and efficient Scandinavian communications desi…

DMI invited Ganesh Shenoy, Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Business Association of India (NBAI)for a c-suite conversation on Foodtech: a foundation boon to sustainable food systems. Shenoy is also CFO & VP IT, MTR Foods Pvt Ltd (owned by Orkla). Here is what was discussed: •What is FoodTech? How it has emerged and secured its place on the the m…

India has given the world many of its leading intellectuals. We are proud to have with us Dr. Parakala Prabhakar , a well known Indian political economist, political commentator, economic, and social affairs. Dr Prabhakar was an advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government from 2014 to 2018 and he is the Managing Director of RightFOLIO. Dr Parakala Pra…

The Modern India was honoured to hold 3 events at Arendalsuka 2021. Day 1-How India will redesign the World The world was last designed seventy-five years ago. This is the time to look at a world redesign beyond the narrow national interests, to one which would serve the best interests of people and our planet. In the late nineteenth century, the t…

Norway serves as an exemplary model for widespread adoption of EVs, achieved through a combination of smart incentives, infrastructure, and benevolent conditions. DMI invited the following for a seminar on Clubhouse to discuss the successful model of EV adoption in Norway. - Ola Elvestuen is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He served a…

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One of Norway's leading experts on China, Knut Sørlie, joined us in this podcast episode. Listen to the episode and hear what he and Rina Sunder have to share when it comes to: Why does China have a 5 year plan? What is the status of the plan? Is India operating with a 5 year plan? Who has adopted the plan? We often hear Modi talk about a self-suff…

In this episode Wayne Cheong and Rina Sunder are discussing How Det moderne India is using podcasting as the medium for leading voices within various fields to share their thoughts on Norway What are the challenges of being an Indian leader in Norway or a Norwegian leader in India, and overcoming them Why India-Norway is an innovative partnership W…