10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
The stock was the worst hit among Sensex and Nifty components.
'Only when China treats India as an equal can we consider them real friends.'
The French president said that peace should be maintained in the region and peoples' rights should be protected.
India's biotech industry has a vast potential for bilateral cooperation with US firms for collaborative research, technology trade, licensing and distribution.\n\n\n\n
The possibility of the slowdown affecting more players is greater if the industry doesn't get access to easier finance in the next six to eight months.
With exporters' claim for over five months still pending, liquidity has been wiped out and the process of finalising new contracts has been held up.
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The Council includes companies like Tata Motors, Flipkart, Airtel, P&G, Madison World, ICICI Bank, HUL, Micromax and Future Group among others.
Lobby group tells USTR it has got assurance from India on compulsory licensing.
The SC said, "You must tell us some way of preventing unemployment also. We cannot have people unemployed and hungry. There are areas where firecrackers can be used."
Particularly hit has been the apparel sector, where the time taken by the industry to adjust to the Goods and Services Tax regime, downward revision of export incentives, and a credit squeeze faced by small and medium scale enterprises, has pushed production downwards.
A course on 'land acquisition, rehabilitation and environmental clearance of projects' is also being offered by IIT-Kharagpur.
The Nifty has gained 2.6% so far this week, while the Sensex has climbed 2.85%
Meanwhile, retail jewellery sales in India have declined by 50 per cent since gold price started its uptrend nearly two weeks. Buyers deferred their fresh purchase amid expectations of a correction in gold prices from the current high level.
The government should also introduce zero duty for gold imports so as the world trade shifts to India.
China is in no hurry to disengage at the border and the region and international community is moving on. The spectre of a long haul in Ladakh haunts India, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
US India Business Council has urged New Delhi and America to take steps to strengthen bilateral trade relationship to realise their 'true business potential'.
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.
The proposals will be reviewed by the World Trade Organization's General Council.
Once the GST is passed, the centre and states will have to adopt their own law.
The tour is aimed at boosting India's economic engagement with these nations and inviting more investment.
Besides addressing a high-level meeting of the US-India Business Council at Washington on June 17, Sharma will hold discussions with the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton. During his three-day engagements, the commerce and industry minister would meet US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and US trade representative Ronald Kirk.
Growing at an annual 13 per cent rate, domestic leather industry aims at doubling its exports earnings to $4 billion by 2010.\n\n
Modi seems to have an innate faith in his capabilities to handle the myriad challenges confronting the nation and would rather manage the affairs of the nation as a CEO would of a large industrial-business empire, observes Virendra Kapoor.
The NSE Nifty settled the day 96.80 points, or 0.94 per cent lower, at 10,224.95
Bangalore-born Bhattacharyya, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2002 for his services to science and technology and made a life peer in the UK's House of Lords in 2004.
Currently, India imposes 30-45 per cent duty on textile products from Pakistan.
He had come in search of jobs in America to rescue his presidency and India failed him in more ways than one, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The 10th ministerial conference, will be held at Nairobi, Kenya.
The airlines were penalised for 'concerted action in fixing and revising Fuel Surcharge (FSC) for transporting cargo.'
Optimistic buying in blue-chip stocks ahead of release of industrial production data for July and retail inflation for August drove stocks higher.
US-India Business Council President Nisha Biswal believes once the economic activity and demand resumes, India could hold the potential for diversification of supply chains and manufacturing.
Contract finally given for Rs 2,400-cr project, with GIFT City-like features
Lacklustre domestic equities alongside ongoing FCNR redemptions added pressure on the local currency
Most of the jewellers who had reopened their showrooms in confusion on Monday, kept shutters down today at Mumbai's Zaveri Bazar and several other places, demanding rollback of the proposal.
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