Since much of the voting was on religious lines, Mamata's rural focus became irrelevant.
According to data released by the Sikkim commerce and industries department in Gangtok, utensils including copper bowls fetched a revenue of Rs 900,000 for Indian traders during four months of trade at the Renquinggang mart. Other products like black tea, textiles, woollen shawls, canned food, vegetable oils and cigarettes were in demand from importers.
The United States on Monday said India 'missed' a major opportunity to get a liberalised regime for the much sought-after H1B visas by not agreeing to Doha deal in Geneva this July.
The government has decided to set up a joint venture company with industry body Ficci for encouraging investment in the country."The Invest India company, a joint venture between the department of industrial policy and promotion and Ficci, would be funded by the government and managed by the chamber," commerce and industry Minister Kamal Nath said
Analysts point out that exporters outside SEZs enjoy Cenvat credit against service tax paid on a host of services subscribed to while engaging in export-related activities. In addition, the department of revenue recently permitted service tax exemption on seven services used by exporters.
Sectors that attracted maximum FDI include services, trading, automobile and power.
Coming out strongly in defence of foreign direct investment in retail, the ministry of commerce and industry has told the Prime Minister's Office that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that organised retail would adversely impact small retail
According to Sanjeev Chopra, secretary of the horticulture and food processing department of West Bengal, steps were being taken so that exporters from the state could sell overseas at least 1 per cent of the total state produce through the AEZs.
E-commerce model appears to be the best bet available to US retail giants at this point to tap the Indian market.
'The belief that FDI will shift from China appears to be a strategy of politicians to keep the media busy, chasing irrelevant news to ward off pressure and questions about the government's plans to deal with COVID,' observes Debashis Basu.
Departments of electronics, excise, I-T launch probe into Rs 251 smartphones
In a move that is being seen as a snub to Walmart, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Thursday cancelled a meeting with US retail giant's Asia head Scott Price.
She said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is working "hard" on the Bankruptcy Code
Megatech Engineering & Services Pvt. Ltd. and three of its senior officials -- Ajay Ahuja, Ravi Shettigar and T K Mohan -- have been placed in the Denied Persons List of the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce and formally notified in the Federal Register.
India's share in the world market for basmati rice is about 53 per cent, said the government on Friday.
Exports are slowing and economic growth in major markets for Indian goods has taken a hit.
These top level changes have come soon after Flipkart co-founder and Group CEO Binny Bansal resigned over allegations of serious personal misconduct in November.
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has been working on the draft for the last several months. The areas coming up for review may include sports goods and airport ground handling services, besides gas and petroleum.
Businesses that are engaged in both taxable and non-GST supply have re-structured themselves into separate entities to avoid elaborate compliance, says Sudipto Dey.
"What is required is to convince the NSG of the non-proliferation benefits of the deal," Stratford, director at the Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs in the US State Department, said.
The purpose of the delegation is to concretise relationships between the private sector in India and US universities, in hopes of a mutually beneficial partnership.
There is one malady for which Dr Bernanke may also have no prescrip
Chairing an exclusive roundtable with 42 global CEOs and top executives from across 20 sectors, Modi stressed on continued political stability in India, predictability of policy, and pro-development and pro-growth policies.
The government is considering to tweak FDI policy in retail sector so as to allow global chains like Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco to open multi-brand stores in non-hilly cities with population less than one million.
After India filed its complaint at the WTO in 2012, the dispute settlement panel of the body in July this year had ruled in India's favour against the USA's imposition of higher duties on New Delhi's steel imports.
'The SJM has requested the government to bring a change in the law which will ensure MSP as the floor price for all farmers below which nobody should buy anything from them.'
Services attracted the most FDI during the first eleven months period of 2015-16.
Though it has been a year since Nathula in East Sikkim was reopened after over four decades for border trade with China, trading activities are yet to pick up through the route.
India's shrimp exporters heaved a sigh of relief last week following the decision of World Trade Organisation's anti-dumping panel to set July 24 as the deadline for the final hearing on the issue.
The Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi, invites applications for admission to its Masters Programme in Business Economics.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
Government gives 60 institutes freedom to fix courses, collaborate with foreign peers.
If the provisional figures released by the department of commerce are any indication, India is unlikely to meet the export target of $125 billion in the 2006-2007 fiscal.
The roadshow will bridge any existing gaps and assist Indian companies seeking to invest in Dubai.
In August, RBI allowed 11 business houses to start a payments bank.
India has emerged as the second largest manufacturer of cement in the world, according to a latest report released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
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