For months, offline retailers and traders have been lobbying hard for a national retail policy to protect their business from the growing influx of e-commerce.
Dr Vijay Kelkar, adviser to the finance minister, will meet industry representatives on Monday in Mumbai to discuss his indirect tax proposals as well as pre-Budget issues.
With the government all geared up to open up the pension sector, Dutch financial powerhouse ING Group on Thursday expressed its desire to foray into the long-term savings business but sought easy entry norms.
Infosys Technologies Ltd has agreed in principle to set up a software development centre in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said on Friday.
Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley will inaugurate 'Made in India' show in Beijing on October 16.\n\n\n\n
Measures to promote ease of doing business, cut in tax rates for smaller enterprises to 25 per cent, and reduction in interest rates are creating the right atmosphere for new businesses to flourish, particularly SMEs.
Bajaj Auto chairman Rahul Bajaj on Tuesday said his company could consider selling its holding in the Firodias-controlled Bajaj Tempo, now rechristened Force Motors.
It called the draft text 'totally unacceptable, insensitive and unbelievable'.
Twelve top Pakistan business tycoons along with their spouses arrived in Wagah after crossing the international border through the land route on Saturday.
Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to India is set to establish a strong business platform at the highest level between India and Israel, Avigdor Itzchaky, director general, Prime Ministers Office, Israel, said.
A 14-member CEOs' delegation, led by Sunil Kant Munjal, President, CII, will embark on a mission to the UK from June 29 to July 1.
The Confederation of Indian Industry on Thursday elected Sunil Kant Munjal and Y C Deveshwar as the president and vice president, respectively, for 2004-05.
CII opposed some provisions, especially on the proposed move to the new definition of a subsidiary, and that a subsidiary cannot have another subsidiary, in the Companies Bill, saying that it will stunt growth in the corporate sector.
Allaying fears of industrialists over the issue of 52 per cent job reservations in the private sector, Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said, "We are willing to discuss the matter with the captains of industry."
China has shown the way to other developing countries in how to carry forward economic development setting aside border disputes and political differences, participants at a Confederation of Indian Industry meet said in New Delhi.
The Confederation of Indian Industry has revised its projection of the GDP growth this fiscal from 6.5 per cent to seven per cent.
Union Divestment Minister Arun Shourie on Friday said the initial public offering to pare the government's stake in five companies - VSNL, Balco, IPCL, CMC and IBP would be done within the next six months.
Coimbatore could become the next IT hub of Tamil Nadu with the state government identifying a tract of land to set up an information technology park there.
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