India should be given credit for helping America recover from the economic crisis, says S Jaishankar, India's new Ambassador to the US.
UK has launched an initiative called 'Next Generation India' to boost India-UK trade relations and encourage NRI entrepreneurs.
Sharma said both US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are firmly committed to take this relationship to greater heights.
Industry sources told India Abroad they wouldn't shed any tears if the legislation died in the House.
Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual western nations, jointly and severally, questions N Sathiya Moorthy.
Arguing that the 'extraordinary economic growth that has in fact been taking place between the United States and India,' that has translated 'into thousands of jobs created in both countries, has 'sometimes been lost in the distraction of the daily headlines,' is the focus of a major report officially launched by the US-India Business Council titled 'Investing in America, How India Helps Create American Jobs.'
Noting that India's rapid growth is a critical engine of global economy, PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi has said the business community in the United States was eager on playing an active role in the country's future economic development.
The Congress was the only party in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday to demand a discussion on setting up a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to probe allegations against the Adani group. Other opposition parties gave similar notices on different issues, including violence in Manipur and Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal. The Congress members sought a JPC to investigate the alleged misconduct, including corruption, bribery and financial irregularities of the Adani Group in connivance with other authorities. However, other opposition parties raised different issues, with the AAP seeking a discussion on "increasing crimes in Delhi" and the TMC, DMK, AAP and CPI seeking a discussion on violence in Manipur. The CPI-M, SP and IUML sought a discussion on the recent violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh.
Like in any expanding relationship, there will always be transactional issues to address between the two sides, says Rao.
Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC, on a summit designed to transform India's education.
The US Chamber of Commerce has written the President complaining of India's discrimination against a wide range of US exports.
United States has asked India to deliver the commercial promise of the historic civil nuclear agreement between the two countries.
Speaking at a summit organised by the US-India Business Council in Washington DC, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed for stronger economic and diplomatic ties between the United States and India.
India open for investment; US ready to move in: USIBC chief.
Yet another US trade delegation to India to seek beach-head on the envisaged energy market.
The Coalition would continue the work begun by USIBC's Trade and Investment Initiative in 2007.
USIBC wants Obama to raise America Inc's concerns with Manmohan Singh.
In a meeting hosted by US India Business Council on Thursday night, the American industry leaders also discussed with Subbarao the need for maintaining 100 per cent foreign ownership of wholly-owned subsidiaries, and transparent priority sector lending norms.
'You have to explain to them about Indian investments in the US creating jobs this reverse outsourcing'
The Indian government's identification of two 'greenfield' sites for commercial nuclear development, that will utilise US technology has been welcomed by the US-India Business Council (USIBC).
The Indian arm of the Norwegian investment company Orkla ASA, which owns spice brands like MTR and Eastern, is exploring the possibility of launching an initial public offering (IPO) in 2025, said a top company executive. "The ASA board just cleared the proposal. "We had done a pre-IPO study last year to understand what we need to do and based on that the board said, 'okay, let's go ahead and explore capital markets'," Sanjay Sharma, CEO, Orkla India, told Business Standard.
Real estate developers are hoping that the slew of tax concessions announced in Union Budget 2025, set to take effect this financial year, will spur demand for affordable and mid-segment housing, even as the broader housing market shows signs of fatigue.
PM promised a tax regime that is predictable and competitive
In a bid to restore investors' confidence after Mumbai terror attacks, the US-India Business Council has presented an optimistic assessment of the security situation in India, saying it is committed to doing trade with the country.
The ATAGS has a range of 35-45 kilometres, depending on the ammunition used, and achieved a 47-km firing range during trials.
The current global downturn has made India even more desirable to Non-Resident Indians who are bullish about the country's growth and continue to invest heavily in the country of their origin, a report said.
Corporate America does not believe that the United States-India relationship has been oversold, but that it's certainly over-hyped. However, it is more concerned over New Delhi's recent actions such as retroactive taxes and predicts all of this will lead to foreign direct investment drying up at a time when India needs it more than ever.
Corporate America has showered kudos on Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for his latest Budget, describing it as a 'very forward-looking confident budget'.
Trump's sweeping tariffs and penalties on China-built ships have turned global shipping into the front line of economic war, observes Shyam G Menon.
Ron Somers, founder and CEO of India First Group and the former President of leading business advocacy group US-India Business Council said that when Lok Sabha election results are declared on June 4, "I believe that Narendra Modi will win Parliament by the largest majority ever recorded in the country's history.
The recession hit US today said it wants to enhance dialogue with India on key trade policy issues, including the bilateral investment treaty under negotiation.
Ron Somers, president of the US India Business Council said with the US economy emerging from a devastating global recession, it was fortunate for the country to have India as a "vigorous trading partner".
The US-India Business Council on Thursday announced the appointment of Ron Somers as the organisation's new president.
At the end of the day, for many worldwide, the ongoing mutual attacks between Israel and Iran would seem a contest devoid of any moral high ground and only a bout between two ordinary adversaries, one that nevertheless risks spinning out of control into a larger conflagration, notes Shyam G Menon.
Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council, said that the reason the USIBC is so keen to deepen linkages with India across the education sector is 'because our knowledge partnership with India depends on it.'
"India has been a fantastic market" for the $40 billion PepsiCo, Indra K Nooyi, chairman and CEO said, and this is the feedback she has received from other CEOs of American companies doing business in India.
'In today's economically integrated world, economic relationships constitute the bedrock on which social, cultural and political relationships are built,' the minister tells the US-India Business Council in Washington, DC.
If the US were to look from the east coast across the Atlantic for a country with which it could collaborate, then India would be that country for reasons more than one, Minister for HRD and Communications and IT Kapil Sibal.
"We are very clear it is an absolute must in the bouquet of energy resources which have to be accessed," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told a gathering of top US c corporate leaders and those from the US government at the annual summit of the US India Business Council (USIBC).
The US India Business Council said India's 2010-11 Budget defined important steps aimed at fuelling growth and signaled that the global recession of 2008-2009 is already a remnant of the past for it.
