Imports dropped 13.16 per cent year-on-year
India does not have a unified regulatory regime to counter Ponzi, or pyramid, schemes whose operators typically grab new deposits to meet their promise of guaranteed returns to existing savers, point out Manoj Kumar and Mayank Bhardwaj.
Like pharmaceutical companies globally - which used to enjoy a preferential exchange rate in Venezuela - Indian producers have been left badly stung by the collapse of the bolivar currency
The insolvency and bankruptcy code will strengthen the hands of lenders to recover outstanding debts by setting a deadline of 180 days for companies to pay or face liquidation
Three members will be representatives from the government, and three from the RBI.
Infrastructure accounts for nearly 38 per cent of India's industrial output
Bankers back the new bankruptcy code, which would impose debt deadlines on failed firms and foresees up to five years in jail for debtors who conceal property or defraud creditors
Retail inflation has eased from double digits in 2013.
India, the bank's second biggest shareholder after China, is looking to borrow from the AIIB.
The USTR has placed India on its "priority watch" list for two years in a row, saying the country's patent laws unfairly favour local drug makers.
It is one of 42 drug-making factories in India that the FDA has banned in recent years
The next hearing on Pfizer's plea is slated for March 21
A notice issued by the Indian Health Ministry at the weekend said that a government-appointed committee of experts had found that the banned combinations were "likely to involve risk to human beings, whereas safer alternatives to the said drug are available."
Dinesh Thakur is famous for exposing Ranbaxy safety problems
A strong showing will be vital to Narendra Modi's chances of a second term.
'We need to look beyond the current approach'.
A proposed 24 percent hike in the salaries of 2.6 million employees and pensioners, will land the railways with a wage bill of about $4.7 billion.
The corporate income tax breaks make up a relatively small part of $80 billion in business giveaways.
From parity in 1980, China's economy has outgrown India's fivefold to $10 trillion