Amari is on an official five-day visit to India which began against the backdrop of talks on a free trade agreement in the Indian capital last week that ended with big differences.
The UK on Tuesday assured complete government neutrality on Tata Steel's bid to acquire Corus and sought similar treatment for British telecom firm Vodafone in its bid to acquire mobile venture Hutchison-Essar.
FM Arun Jaitley says I-T dept's capacity to access information and apply technology driven analytical tools to expose evasion has been enhanced
Though figures of losses are yet to be ascertained, the local business community put them in crores.
Putin, who was received by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on his arrival, went straight to Modi's official Lok Kalyan Marg residence where the two leaders had a one-on-one meeting.
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.
It is after the GST Network tallies invoice details with shipping bills that the refund claims can be processed. So, the refund could be delayed by over a month.
The India-Japan 2+2 dialogue added strategic heft to the special relationship in the wake of growing Chinese assertiveness on regional affairs, points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is expected to sign a free trade agreement with India next week, Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz has said.
Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar said it would have been a "disappointing and wrong decision" on the part of the government if the Home Ministry officials had their way in not awarding the India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna to sportspersons.
Japan on Friday assured India that recent clashes between the police and workers of a Japanese multinational in Gurgaon would not affect flow of investment from Tokyo, while agreeing with New Delhi that the incident was one-off.
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt on Wednesday launched the India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee aiming to strengthen bilateral relations.
Under GST, the small and medium industries would have to handle things on their own, says V S Krishnan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday asked the industry to enhance its contribution for creation of infrastructure through increased investment and assured that "holding the price line" was a priority for the government.
The list of the prestigious Padma Awards 2016 awardees is out and superstar Rajnikanth is set to be honoured with the nation's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
The local chapter of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Coimbatore has again appealed to the Centre to reconsider the imposition of service tax on goods transportation.
The large drop was for export orders that were meant to be delivered until October.
India and Italy on Tuesday set themselves a target of achieving five billion euro of bilateral trade in next two years.
India and UK will sign an agreement for setting up a Joint Economic and Trade Committee as part of steps to boost bilateral economic ties on Wednesday.
Leading trade and industry chambers on Monday urged the investor community to remain calm and said the economic fundamentals were strong and the stock market crash was a "panic reaction".
After assuming power in 2014 with a full majority of its own, the BJP-led NDA government started an ambitious process of reforming labour laws in the form of codes aimed at making the framework less cumbersome with a variety of alterations. It had planned four codes each for industrial relations, wages, social security and welfare, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. To this end, 35 central labour laws were to be converted into four codes that would have had the virtue of streamlining labour relations. But none of the proposed code Bills could be converted into a law principally because neither trade unions nor industry representatives came on board. They hold the key to India's low-growth-high unemployment paradigm but the government may struggle to push them through this time as well. Somesh Jha explains why
Singapore on Wednesday said it was hopeful that a Free Trade Agreement with India would be signed by the middle of this year.
Ashok Leyland would fully exploit the boom in trade and industrial production and launch 20 new products in all categories of vehicles
Contrary to apprehensions in certain quarters, UK's call centre industry is healthy and is set to grow four times more than India, gaining around 200,000 jobs over the next three years, a study said on Friday.
The contentious issue of value added tax was resolved on Tuesday with the state finance ministers deciding to implement from June 1 the new tax system in place of the sales tax.
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