Even as foreign investors land in Delhi to attend the first major food processing trade fair, Delhiites queue up to satisfy their tastebuds
The case relates roughly to assessment years 2000-01 to 2002-03 and 2004-05 to 2007-08
Govt squeezed capital expenditure, and also cut revenue expenditure, that does not go into creating assets, by 11% in H1
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 full effects of the government initiatives will have to work their way through, whether in infrastructure or in the banking sector.'
India's rank inched up by just one position to 130 in last year's Doing Business Survey by the World Bank.
'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
NITI Aayog vice chairperson Rajiv Kumar tells Indivjal Dhasmana that additional funds could be generated through divestment, and that the fiscal deficit should be widened while focusing on the revenue deficit.
Relax fiscal consolidation, boost public capex and reduce cost of finance, industry tells Centre
P P Chaudhary the newly-appointed minister of state for corporate affairs, is monitoring and coordinating actions against shell companies.
Depreciating the rupee against the dollar to boost economic growth has fiscal constraints and monetary limitations
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.
While the Centre is criticised for not cutting excise duty on petroleum products, it is the states which gain more from the rise in their prices
The large drop was for export orders that were meant to be delivered until October.
The ease of doing business has not picked up in a vast number of states and Union Territories.
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's wish to levy indirect tax on petrol unlikely to be taken up
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