The adverse impact of the rupee appreciation has gone beyond exports. The currency's climb is now affecting government infrastructure projects funded by multilateral lending agency such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Asian Development Bank has sanctioned $313.6 million for various railway projects in the country, while the World Bank has provided $463 million for an urban transport project.
The Union government has engaged the Asian Development Bank to provide technical assistance in implementing the new pension scheme for the unorganised sector.
The government on Wednesday said it was planning to prepay over $2.9 billion costly foreign loans this fiscal, which would be funded through domestic market borrowing.
The Asian Development Bank will give a $20-million technical assistance loan to India for carrying out reforms in the judicial system.
The government on Friday appointed noted economist Arvind Virmani as the new chief economic advisor in finance ministry.
Jain was the architect of Deutsche's investment banking business and placed one of his former trading heads, Alan Cloete, in Hong Kong as co-CEO for Asia Pacific in 2012.
The government plans to prepay Rs 5,188 crore (Rs 51.88 billion) worth of high cost debts of Asian Development Bank in the current fiscal, after having prepaid Rs 6,378 crore (Rs 63.78 billion) to the World Bank a few days back.
R H Patil was on Thursday appointed chairman of UTI Asset Management Company, the country's largest mutual fund.\n\n
This move plus aggressive border violations by China has prompted the Indian Army to deploy extra troops and fighter jets in the area as a counter measures.
Asian Development Bank on Monday said India needs to increase investment rate and improve productivity on a massive scale if its economy was to expand beyond 7-8 per cent.
India will receive $9.2 billion Asian Development Bank loan during 2008-10 for 31 projects in sectors like energy, transport and financial services, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
India's economic growth is likely to slow down to 6.5 per cent this fiscal and to 6 per cent in the subsequent year mainly due to high oil prices, which reactivated inflation, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
India's economy continues to be robust, but downside risks such as rising crude oil prices, adverse weather conditions, and the global banking crisis outweigh the upside potential in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the current financial year (FY24), the finance ministry said on Tuesday in its Monthly Economic Review for March. "We reiterate that downside risks to our official forecast of 6.5 per cent for real GDP growth in FY24 dominate upside risks," the review said. "Opec's surprise production cut has seen oil prices rise in April, off their lows of low-seventies per barrel in March.
India on Monday said it will meet Pakistan next week to resolve issues, such as transit fee, impeding progress on the over $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, even as it gets formally inducted in a rival line from Turkmenistan.
After GAIL, Indian Oil Corp has expressed interest in buying out Asian Development Bank's 5.2 per cent stake in Petronet LNG Ltd, company chairman Sarthak Behuria said. However, if the state-run promoters of Petronet are not allowed to raise stake in the company for fear of it becoming a public sector unit, Behuria suggested selling ADB's shareholding to the public.
The still lingering global financial turmoil could push as many as 21 million more people into extreme poverty in the Asia-Pacific region, a joint report by the United Nations and Asian Development Bank said.
The Asian Development Bank approved a $200 million loan to support fiscal reforms and social development in Kerala, its first aid to the southern Indian state, the multilateral lending agency said on Tuesday.
China said it has suspended the project due to security concerns from a third party.
Investors' wealth jumped Rs 13.78 lakh crore on Monday as the benchmark equity index Sensex hit its lifetime high after exit polls predicted a massive win for the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha polls. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 2,777.58 points or 3.75 per cent to hit a record peak of 76,738.89 in early trade. The benchmark finally ended at 76,468.78, registering a sharp rally of 2,507.47 points or 3.39 per cent.
In the current financial year, TPC has planned capital expenditure of Rs 2,670 crore for their projects in Trombay, Haldia and in adding capacity to their wind power and digiset generating systems.
Bangladesh government has agreed in principle to construct a 30-km pipeline for supplying gas to the Tata Group's proposed fertiliser plant in Chittagong.
Asian Development Bank is working on a grand plan to link Kabul with Bangkok and Hanoi through India as a part of its goal to link Asia.
The two-day ministerial meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan to formally invite Indian participation in the transnational pipeline project originating from Dauletabad fields in Turkmenistan was cancelled.
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan will meet in Manila on Tuesday to formally invite Indian participation in the transnational pipeline project originating from Dauletabad fields in Turkmenistan.
The Asian Development Bank is all set to enter the Indian capital market with a bond issue to raise upto Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore) as it has obtained the Reserve Bank of India's and ministry of finance's approval.
Asian Development Bank on Monday warned that job reservation in private sector could lead to swift flight of skilled labour from India.
The country needs 100 million jobs in the formal sector in the next decade to take advantage of its demographic dividend. Also, it should get into the global supply chain to generate many of those by negotiating trade deals effectively, industry players and experts have said. "We need something like 100 million jobs in the next 10 years, which means that the non-agriculture sector has to generate 14 per cent job growth every year," said Aditya Ghosh, co-founder of Akasa Airlines, at the Global Economic Policy Summit organised by the CII.
The Asian Development Bank will invest $75 million in Petronet LNG Ltd for taking 5.2 per cent equity stake even as ExxonMobil-promoted RasGas of Qatar desired to pick 10 per cent stake in India's first liquefied natural gas importer.
Asian Development Bank on Friday said India can sustain 8 per cent economic growth but asked government to improve infrastructure and carry forward reforms to attain a higher growth of 9-10 per cent.
