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Madhavrao Scindia briefly left the Congress in 1996 and was later pacified to rejoin ranks
Scindia, who was also named as its Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh by the BJP, hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "competence and complete dedication" to serving India and asserted that the country's future is fully secure in his hands.
The commerce ministry wants the stimulus packages for exporters to continue for some more time till the sector recovers completely.
Hit by demand slowdown in the major markets of the US and Europe, India's exports grew by a meagre 3.4 per cent to $168.7 billion in 2008-09 over $163 billion in a year ago period. The government is taking steps to arrest the downslide in exports, minister of state for commerce and industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Sunday after taking charge.
Ten states and Union Territories have endorsed the Centre's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday.
Trouble broke out when IAC supporter Archana Sharma was pushed out of the conference hall, where the press conference was being held, by Congress workers while she was trying to ask a question to Scindia, the Union Minister of State for Industries and Commerce.
The BCCI's disciplinary committee, probing charges of alleged financial irregularities against suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, will submit its report by early October.
The commerce and industry ministry may withdraw incentives offered to certain export-oriented industries and reallocate these to the sectors that are struggling for survival after a review in April.
The government on Monday said that multinational companies (MNCs) are campaigning against domestic pharmaceuticals industry as their interests were getting impacted due to increasing global presence of Indian firms in the generic segment.
India's exports are likely to remain at the last year's level of $168 billion owing to the global slowdown.
Ease of doing business will improve in India with the Industry Ministry planning one stop e-biz portal which can be approached by entrepreneurs for seeking clearances - both central and state.
India needs to look at newer markets for exports apart from the three primary markets of the European Union, the US and Japan, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday.
Though assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are almost one and a half years away, the Opposition Congress, which is looking to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party from scoring a hat-trick in the state, appears to be divided on the issue of chief ministership. A section of the party led by Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Jyotiraditya Scindia favoures contesting the polls under the leadership of tribal leader Kantilal Bhuria.
Round-the-clock customs clearance at eight major ports, reduction in bank charges on foreign currency and concessional loans are among the measures announced by the government to cut transactions cost.
The government is set to announce some significant measures to reduce the high transaction costs faced by the country's exporters in their day-to-day operations. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be unveiling the measures on February 8.
India and Israel have vowed to enhance cooperation in combating the menace of terror, with Tel Aviv terming 'New Delhi's security as important to it as its own.'
During April-November this financial year, trade gap stood at $116.8 billion. In 2010-11, it was aggregated at $119 billion.
"We have close to about 175 press notes circulating... the Industry Ministry has taken a decision to put all of these together in a booklet so that the FDI rules become much simpler for a foreign investor."
India and Turkey have agreed to take trade beyond $5 billion target
More than a year after playing a key role in installation of a Bharatiya Janata Party government in Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia was rewarded with a berth in the Union Cabinet, a familiar terrain for the Rajya Sabha member who had served as a junior minister in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.
With exports turning positive since November 2009, the sector added 1.87 lakh jobs during the January - March period over the previous quarter.
"If we continue with the polices in terms of assisting exporters . . . as long as we see those numbers climbing every month in an environment around the world where output and trade is shrinking, I think this is reassuring sign," Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said on the sidelines of a CII function in New Delhi.
India's retail business, the second largest employer after agriculture, is estimated to touch $590 billion in two years, Parliament was informed on Monday.
The members of the cabinet committees included Union ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party and its National Democratic Alliance partners like Janata Dal-United, Telugu Desam Party, Janata Dal-Secular, Shiv Sena and Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas.
Fifteen Cabinet ministers and 28 Ministers of State were sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
Dressed in colourful attire, members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday got their group photograph clicked in the old Parliament building, hours before legislative proceedings shift to the new Parliament House.
These flights belong to the fleet of Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo, Spice Jet, Vistara, Go Air, and also planes from Air Force.
Keeping in view the approaching Lok Sabha elections, the All Indian Congress Committee has appointed a battery of high-profile spokesmen for the Congress to showcase the achievements of the last 10 years of United Progressive Alliance government and publicise the various sectors where the UPA has performed. Renu Mittal reports
Over 65 Union ministers are likely to take oath, going by the visual of the meeting Modi held with his likely council of ministers.
Here is the complete list of ministers in Modi 3.0 and their portfolios:
Modi and Chouhan have visited Mahakoshal multiple times and reached out to tribals to shore up support for the BJP.
The Prime Minister directed that a special cell be created immediately in the Cabinet Secretariat.
Strengthening the portfolios of the home minister and the finance minister is a message that should not be missed, points out A K Bhattacharya.
The annual talk-fest of rich and powerful from across the world in snow-laden Alpine resort town of Davos will be attended by nearly 40 heads of government among more than 2,500 global leaders from over 100 countries.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to WEF annual meeting after a deadly Taliban attack in his country.
Those scheduled to attend the five-day WEF Annual meeting, beginning January 21, include more than 40 heads of state or government, including those from the UK, Australia, Japan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Brazil, Italy, Mauritius, Republic of Korea and Switzerland, WEF announced on Wednesday at a press conference in Geneva.
Refuting allegations of divisions in the Congress in Rajasthan, Corporate Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament from Ajmer, Sachin Pilot, speaks to Kavita Chowdhury on a range of issues, including the Congress's prospects in the coming Rajasthan Assembly polls.
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