Finance Minister P Chidambaram asked Britain on Thursday to allow Indian banks to open more branches in that country.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Wednesday came down rich countries' subsidy to their agriculture sector.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has urged Britain to allow Indian banks to open more branches in that country.
The government said on Thursday it will bring a legislation next month to increase foreign direct investment in insurance sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent at present.
It is time to formally recognise on a more consistent and regular basis the reality of the emerging new world order, he said.
'Obviously people who know me know that I will speak my mind. I'll be very frank, the British national interest is what I and my colleagues are about.'
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will begin a three-day visit to India from January 17. Brown's visit to India assumes significance considering that this is his first ever visit to India.
Warning that the rising economic might of India and China poses a threat to Britain's prosperity, the country's Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has asked businesses to do more to meet the growing strategic threat to their markets.
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The five include Abdel Aziz Rantissi, its new leader.
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