UK environment minister Lord de Mauley hosted a round-table meeting here with representatives of mango and vegetable importers and exporters from the UK and India, Deputy Indian High Commissioner to the UK Virendra Paul, and senior regulators from Defra and the Food and Environment Research Agency.
He also said the city had a long way to go before it could reach the status of a global city, and said that greater autonomy and better governance of the city would ensure the global city status, says the finance minister.
General Motors also plans to increase sourcing from India over the next 4-5 years to $1 billion annually.
ITC Limited could take its IT business -- ITC Infotech -- public, its Chairman Y C Deveshwar said on Friday.
Sunil Mittal, President, CII, met French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris to discuss Indo-France business relations.
Focus on supplies to check inflation.
International Finance Corporation plans to increase its investment to $1.0 billion this year in Indian companies, mostly engaged in manufacturing, infrastructure and financial sectors.
The Confederation of Indian Industry in its budget wish list has urged to government to scrap the fringe benefit tax.
Indo-US economic relations have vast potential but pending issues like the one about the failed Dabhol power project need to be resolved, US Undersecretary of State Alan P Larson told visiting Indian businessmen in Washington.
Larsen & Toubro Ltd will shortly file with the Bombay Stock Exchange its plans for a trust scheme for its employees to pick up 15 per cent stake of Grasim Industries Ltd.
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.
The defence minister asked the Pakistani leadership not to talk about using nuclear weapons and get into the idea of committing suicide.
Planning Commission Member N K Singh on Wednesday said there was a need to continue with crucial economic reforms to sustain eight per cent GDP growth.
President of Portugal Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva on Wednesday said India was now recognised as a success story, a place where "the future is being shaped".
Decades after he received a letter from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, soon after becoming a senator, Biden learned that his 'great, great, great, great, great grandfather' had worked in the East India Company. "There are five Bidens in Mumbai, India," Biden, then Vice President, told a Washington audience in 2015 at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of India-US civil nuclear deal.
President AJP Abdul Kalam says India can wipe out poverty through a network of connectivities encompassing a knowledge grid, a healthcare grid, e-governance grid and the knowledge grid.
Today, when you buy a door or a window in wood, you are not aware that you are depleting forests. Tomorrow, your wood will have to be certified that it is from a sustainable forest, says R Parasu Raman, Vice Chairman, WGBC.
The resurgence in confidence in Indian manufacturing was borne out by many examples of Indian companies going global.
India is set to give a major push to 'Brand India' in China in an attempt to strengthen its foothold in the country, even as bilateral trade rises at a blistering pace, industry officials said.
The India Today group said on Monday it would launch an English language daily in New Delhi early next year.
Experts said a future rate cut would depend on the inflation.
'It is entering growth territory on a month-on-month basis.'
ICICI bank CEO and CII president K V Kamath told the media on the eve of the two-day national council in Hyderabad that 'skilling' was the key area and big challenge for the country.
India Inc enables the US' frostiness to India.
The Inter-Ministerial Group for modernising Delhi and Mumbai airports would shortlist the preferred bidders for the airport revamp joint ventures within the next few days, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday.
Stating that India is not witnessing a slowdown in investment, Confederation of Indian Industry president K V Kamath said on Thursday that the country would continue to grow at a healthy rate of 8.6 per cent for the next five years.
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