The government on Tuesday said foreign direct investment inflows during in the current fiscal is expected to touch the $10 billion mark annually.
Juster played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur is leading a five member delegation to Chicago, New York via London from 25th September 2005 to attract foreign investment in Madhya Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of other South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries will meet in Kathmandu on Wednesday with an aim to revitalise the regional grouping and make it a major platform to fuel economic growth through liberalised trade and combat challenges of terrorism and climate change effectively.
With India, the last round of talks took place in February 2011.
The government has set up a committee to examine the regulatory structure of the gold industry to make India a gold trading hub, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry K S Elangovan said on Monday.
Presenting the Narendra Modi government's maiden Rail Budget, Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda announced setting up of logistic parks and private freight terminals on PPP model.
Buoyed by the momentum created in the last fiscal, India's export target for 2005-06 has been revised upwards to $92 billion from $88 billion, Union Minister of State for Commerce E V K S Elangovan said on Monday.
The Commerce Ministry earlier this week commissioned a study to assess the impact of free trade agreement with South Korea, with which India had a trade deficit of about $9 billion in 2012-13.
Containing fiscal deficit and stable policies were crucial for the country to attract higher foreign investment, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
India and Italy on Tuesday set themselves a target of achieving five billion euro of bilateral trade in next two years.
'President Obama will make a historic visit to India in January, becoming the first US head of State to attend India's Republic Day and the only sitting US president to visit India twice.' 'There's little doubt the relationship has been re-energised, with renewed enthusiasm to take our partnership to the next level.'
Trade and economic issues, including visa, totalisation pact and impediments hampering investments, are likely to figure at Monday's US-India CEO Forum meeting, which will be jointly addressed by visiting US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Wednesday appeared to share industry's concerns over naming Kumar Mangalam Birla in an FIR in coal scam case saying it was unfortunate and could raise questions over investor confidence in the country.
Instead of announcing new schemes, focus will be on those already announced and key sectors.
Idea is to bring stakeholders together and explore ways to increase export of services from India.
The government will treat sales from domestic tariff area to Special Economic Zones as exports in a bid to attract more foreign direct investment, which could turn out to be an engine of growth.
China, which overtook the United States as the top global destination for foreign direct investment in 2003, is expected to attract a record inflow of over $60 billion this year, a senior official said.
'While economic ties are making incremental progress, it is in the security and strategic domains that the India-Japan synergy is more compelling,' says Dr Rajaram Panda.
A panel headed by Economic Affairs secretary Arvind Mayaram had suggested FDI limit be raised to 49 per cent in almost all sectors through the automatic route.
India received Rs 14232.42 crore (Rs 142.32 billion) worth of foreign direct investment in the first nine months of the current fiscal as opposed to Rs 12117.36 crore (Rs 121.17 billion) FDI received in the whole of 2003-04 fiscal.
Recently, he had surprised many by talking of net neutrality
For growth in export, continuous gain in productivity is essential.
The country has a long way to go before it claims to have arrived, he said.
While festive season spends by consumers did contribute to the uptick seen in Q3, experts said greater aggression displayed by retailers to corner a larger share of the shopper's wallet also worked.
In a first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met the secretaries of all the government departments collectively and asked them to directly get in touch with him to resolve issues and expedite decision-making.
Showing an encouraging trend, Korea's trade with India grew by as much as 53 per cent during the first ten months of the current year.
Ambassador Venu Rajamony, who served as press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee during his tenure, salutes the statesman and political legend, who passed into the ages on Monday.
Services attracted the most FDI during the first eleven months period of 2015-16.
The US, he said, rejects any Chinese claim to waters beyond a 12-nautical mile territorial sea derived from islands it claims in the Spratly Islands (without prejudice to other states' sovereignty claims over such islands).
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the magnitude of the alleged black money transfer through state-owned BoB will only be known after completion of the multi-disciplinary probe.
'Dr Singh, visibly relieved, said, 'Yesterday night I couldn't sleep. I stayed awake, praying throughout. You have saved the country'.' A fascinating excerpt from former atomic energy chief Dr Anil Kakodkar's memoir Fire And Fury: Transforming India's Strategic Identity.
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