Chief statistician T C A Anant says growth figure might go up once indirect tax data is fully in, however, he agrees that private expenditure is yet to pick up
Post DeMo and GST, business outlook remain diminished among both buyers and sellers
These firms invested $17.9 bn and have also contributed $147 million towards corporate social responsibility and $588 million as R&D expenditure in the US.
The face of MNC drug firms in India and champion of IPR protection, he oversaw the Swiss giant's India expansion, its forays into new therapies and setting up of its global service centre in Hyderabad
Indian talent may soon be allowed to work in France without a degree from a French institute.
Even as foreign investors land in Delhi to attend the first major food processing trade fair, Delhiites queue up to satisfy their tastebuds
Ramesh Abhishek, secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, talks to Subhayan Chakraborty about India's performance on the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking.
The government plans to rationalise trade margins for many other medical devices, besides stents and knee implants.
India's rank inched up by just one position to 130 in last year's Doing Business Survey by the World Bank.
Delhi airport, the country's busiest, runs out of slots due to runway capacity constraints.
'They are geopolitical, commercial, educational, cultural and about innovation.' 'Also, they are about a common value system.'
Export growth picked up mainly owing to rising global crude prices, which pushed up processed petroleum exports by nearly 40 per cent, apart from a broad-based improvement in exports of major foreign exchange earners such as engineering goods and gems and jewellery.
The youth have to turn into entrepreneurs if India's massive demographic dividend is to be taken advantage of: Smriti Irani.
Oppo's FDI application approved for single-brand retail trading
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As the liquidity crunch reaches crisis levels and getting tax refunds remain a big headache, exporters saw orders fall by 15 per cent till October.
Demand will boom in the US and China, but exporters say it will be difficult for India to tap these markets.
Bengaluru and Delhi airports had the fastest growth in passenger traffic in 2016 among global peers.
Gujarat has around 3,000 licensees for allopathic drug manufacturing, apart from around seven homeopathic licensees, 500 ayuvedic and 600-700 cosmetics licensees
The large drop was for export orders that were meant to be delivered until October.
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