This will be External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh's first visit to Pakistan after assuming office.
Asian Development Bank on Thursday pegged India's economic growth at 7.4 per cent for 2004 and said high growth is likely to be sustained in medium term.
New-generation Yes Bank is in talks with Asian Development Bank for Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) debt.
Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avoid being added to a list of countries deemed non-compliant with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations.
The Union government has engaged the Asian Development Bank to provide technical assistance in implementing the new pension scheme for the unorganised sector.
The Asian Development Bank plans to come up with its second rupee bonds issue and hike loan assistance for India to $2 billion annually during 2004-07.
R H Patil was on Thursday appointed chairman of UTI Asset Management Company, the country's largest mutual fund.\n\n
Market cap of government companies has remained unchanged in the past 8 years.
Finance Commission has got new team who are committed to growth initiatives.
The government of India has prepaid a portion of foreign currency loans of Asian Development Bank amounting to yen 123.11 billion (Rs 5,294.84 crore)
Lauding India's economic reform process, the Asian Development Bank expected the country's economy to grow by 7-8 per cent in the medium term and said it would step up its loan exposure to $2 billion annually.
The bank will have initial authorised capital of $100 billion
India's economic growth is likely to slow down to 6.5 per cent this fiscal and to 6 per cent in the subsequent year mainly due to high oil prices, which reactivated inflation, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
Asian Development Bank has sanctioned $313.6 million for various railway projects in the country, while the World Bank has provided $463 million for an urban transport project.
Asian Development Bank on Wednesday called India's target of eight per cent annual economic growth "ambitious".
India is set to witness a roller-coaster growth in the next three years ranging between 6-7 per cent mainly due to fluctuations in prospects of industry and services sectors, according to the Asian Development Bank.
The government on Wednesday said it was planning to prepay over $2.9 billion costly foreign loans this fiscal, which would be funded through domestic market borrowing.
Asian Development Bank is working on a grand plan to link Kabul with Bangkok and Hanoi through India as a part of its goal to link Asia.
Three weeks ahead of the Budget, Asian Development Bank expressed concern over high fiscal deficit, which, it said, was acting as a roadblock to India's economic growth.
India will catch up with China by the year 2020 in terms of economic growth on the strength of its better efficiency of investments, an Asian Development Bank economist has said.
The Asian Development Bank on Monday projected that Indian economy was poised to grow by 6 per cent this year, marginally better than South Asia's growth of 5.7 per cent.
Asian Development Bank has agreed to lend $100 million to Jammu and Kashmir for commercialisation of agriculture and development of farm-based business, A A Zargar, the state agriculture minister, said in Jammu.
The government will privately place two bonds totalling Rs 130 billion with the central bank to fund prepayment of $2.97 billion in foreign currency loans, the Reserve Bank of India said on Monday.
In the face of burgeoning forex reserves at over $93 billion, the government has quietly prepaid $1.4 billion worth of costly foreign loans to World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
