The Confederation of Indian Industry has entered into an agreement with the Chinese city of Sheynag to promote long-term cooperation in the area of information technology.
'Right to apprenticeship means that anyone below the age of 25 years with a diploma or other qualifications can demand an apprenticeship with a private, a public sector company or a government organisation. And when he/she demands this, it is the obligation of the government to provide it.'
India's leading industry chambers, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci), said the US government should remove export restrictions on dual-use technologies.
The Confederation of Indian Industry has said a minimum of 7 per cent of GDP, which translates to about Rs 200,000 crore (Rs 2000 billion) a year of investment, has to go into gross capital formation in infrastructure for sustainable growth.
Manufacturers said they expect the growth of manufacturing sector to be less than 7 per cent.
The Central Electricity Authority and industry body CII will present a white paper on power sector reforms to the government by the end of this month, a senior government official said.
The department of science and technology, Confederation of Indian Industry and Intel on Wednesday signed a statement of intent with a view to promote culture of inventions and innovations among students and youth of the country.
Signing a memorandum of understanding in this regard with Confederation of Indian Industry's deputy director general Indrani Kar, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the India Wildlife Business Council would lead the efforts to save tiger from becoming extinct.
In a bid to promote Indian film industry in the international arena, CII would launch a delegation of film directors, producers and financers of the industry to the American Film Market in California.
India and Russia need stronger trade and economic ties, CII President Hari S Bhartia has said.
Get more people working, get more people working in modern manufacturing and services in our cities, and get people working better and longer, suggests Naushad Forbes, past president, CII.
Confederation of Indian Industry has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fast track economic reforms, which in turn would boost investments and accelerate growth, chamber's new president Adi Godrej said on Thursday.
More than lobbying for concessions, CII strove to be an instrument of change.
Taking into account the buoyant performance of the Indian economy in the first half of the current financial year, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has revised its GDP growth estimate for the year from around 8 per cent to 8.6 per cent.
The large current account deficit and the growing vulnerability on the external front have largely contributed towards the secular decline and the current volatility of the rupee.
The current global financial crisis dominated the India Economic Summit's (IES) pre-event conference. The three-day event, being organised jointly by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) from Saturday, would make its debut in this city after 26 years. The summit, an annual event, is usually held in New Delhi.
Actress Aishwarya Rai inaugurated the CII India Pavilion at the annual Cannes Film Festival, on Thursday evening.
The objective of Section 72A is to make business operations tax-neutral encourages the amalgamation and restructuring of a company or firms by allowing set-off or carrying forward of unabsorbed depreciation and accumulated business losses.
The Confederation of Indian Industry has revised its projection of the GDP growth this fiscal from 6.5 per cent to seven per cent.
Communications and IT Minister Arun Shourie on Monday inaugurated the Confederation of Indian Industry's office in Malaysia, its 14th international office.\n\n\n\n
Industry associations Ficci and CII have been termed liable for service tax. Ficci has approached government for exemption from the levy.
The centre of excellence, a non-profit joint venture between tobacco-to-hotels major ITC and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), is working on a rating system for companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. The first exercise of its kind in India, the idea is to incentivise CSR programmes to strengthen companies' ability to bargain for tax breaks and create a better image with consumers and stakeholders.
In its mid-year analysis presented in Parliament earlier this week, the Finance Ministry had said that there were concerns about overheating of the economy in the midst surge in capital flows.
Confederation of Indian Industries said on Monday that the economy has shown clear signs of a turnaround over the last four quarters with sales
Twenty-one sectors have done better than expected and recorded growth during the first nine months of 2001-02 in areas of production, sales and exports in the face of industrial recovery, according to a CII-ASCON survey.
Confederation of Indian Industry has sought higher banking exposure norms for lending to steel projects and infrastructure status to the steel industry, besides tax sops on par with special economic zones to boost the sector.
"To start with, we were clueless about the proportion of SCs/STs in the private sector. In last one year, we have increased the proportion but still have to arrive at the exact figures. So we cannot commit on what their proportion is," said JJ Irani, chairman, CII Council for Affirmative Action. The industry chamber had earlier said that the proportion of SCs/STs in private companies could be 15-20 per cent at the clerical level and 90-100 per cent at lower levels.
Will help in reviving the economy and push investment.
Anand Mahindra, vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra and Mahindra, took over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry on Tuesday.
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