The key sectors that received the maximum foreign investment during the nine months of the fiscal include services, computer software and hardware, telecommunications, chemicals, and the automobile industry.
Overall foreign inflows into the country grew by 8 per cent to $ 24.29 in the last fiscal as against $ 22.42 billion in 2012-13.
Mamata Banerjee, who had pulled out of UPA-II over FDI in retail, among other issues, would dedicate mall to people of Kolkata.
The government has last month significantly liberalised the FDI regime, putting most of the sectors on the automatic route
The move would help insurance firms to get much needed capital from overseas partners.
Currently, FDI up to 26 per cent is permitted through automatic approval route.
FDI inflows into India were $34 billion in 2014, up 22%.
FII's too have invested in huge amount in the country
'With China falling out of favour, India is where investors see the demographic and digital dividend apart from the benefits of reforms playing out.' 'Your prime minister has also done a great job of sharing this story with the world.'
The loans taken have come down and hence the net capital inflow has reduced.
As per the current policy, 100 per cent foreign investment is allowed in scheduled air transport service, domestic scheduled passenger airlines and regional air transport
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India has declined by six per cent to $5.47 billion during January-March quarter of the current calender year even as government is making efforts to promote the country as an investment destination.
Soft drink major Coca Cola's Rs 549 crore (Rs 5.49 billion) proposed investment in its Indian arm was among the 25 FDI proposals totalling 773.52 crore (Rs 7.73 billion) cleared by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday.
He said with an aim to make the FDI policy user friendly, all prior regulations and guidelines have been consolidated into a comprehensive document.
South Korean envoy described the Posco investment as the biggest FDI project in India.
Position as most-favoured destination moves down a notch to fourth, says Unctad report.
A day after winning Parliament's approval to the decision of allowing FDI in retail, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the move will benefitfarmers and consumers and help introduce new technologies in agri marketing.
Arun Jaitley has clarified his custodianship of 3 ministries - finance, corporate affairs and defence.
This is the highest in Europe and the third in the world after the United States and China
The Cabinet can take a decision on the matter only after the Election Commission's approval.
Jaitley praised the DRDO saying it was "doing quite a lot to meet the requirements of the armed forces but the Services need much more and that will come through domestic industry."
'Hundreds of thousands of people who earn their livelihood from the 12 million existing retail outlets may be put out of business by Big Retail,' says Bhavdeep Kang.
She said during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha that Bharatiya Janata Party got a massive mandate on the basis of its election manifesto which opposes FDI in multi-brand retail.
India received foreign direct investment (FDI) worth $1.79 billion in February, 2013 -- a decline of about 19 per cent due to global economic slowdown.
It has brought down the minimum capital requirement to $5 million from $10 million.
India's global ranking as a destination for FDI has fallen from eight to 14.
The question is not whether FDI in multi-brand retail is desirable or not, but whether the rules of conducting business in Parliament need to be reviewed.
In October 2011, the country had attracted FDI worth $1.16 billion.
Scouting for resources to meet its fund crunch, Railways is open to the idea of even 100 per cent FDI in its infrastructure development but would keep train operations out of its ambit.
Out of 2,852 stocks traded on the BSE, 1,515 declined while 1,219 advanced.
A committee of secretaries will be meeting soon to consider a draft proposal, which suggests that decision-making on all policy issues pertaining to FDI be transferred from the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) in the Ministry of Commerce to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in the Ministry of Finance.
FDI inflows into services sector grew by about 47 per cent to $2.64 billion in April-January last fiscal.
Contesting the US charge that Indian FDI rules are "opaque", Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Tuesday said the country follows a simplified direct investment regime.
The CPI on Friday said it was opposed to divestment and entry of foreign direct investment in certain sectors like retail trade, media, telecom and finance.
Overall, cumulative direct investment from China stood at just $2.05 billion till June 2018, according to consolidated DIPP figures
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing alleged fraudulent foreign funds infusion of more than Rs 86 crore into a company that runs the NewsClick portal even as it is expected to soon file a charge sheet in the case being probed under the anti-money laundering law, official sources said on Monday.
Opposing Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday said that the move is not in the interest of the country.
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