The long-pending issue of seizure of Indian generic drugs by European Union countries has been resolved, with the EU accepting India's position and agreeing to amend the rules to plug the loopholes that led to the seizure of shipments.
The team originally comprised 27 parliamentarians, mostly from extreme right or right wing parties, but four did not travel to Kashmir and have reportedly returned to their respective countries, officials said.
A new rule by the European Union on duty-free purchases has raised strong protests from India's duty-free retail owners.
India is negotiating for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with Malaysia and Japan and a broad based trade and investment agreement with the EU.
Last week's panic in financial markets finally forced European policy-makers into taking decisive action.
Grabbing the opportunity, companies are lining up with investment in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana for processing plants to milk the export market. Global giants such as Group Danone and Fonterra are firmly in India.
Labour MP Jo Cox was holding a meeting with constituents, in her local constituency when an altercation reportedly led to the attack.
Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with India have set off global protests
European governments have stepped up diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, encouraged by Russian President Vladimir Putin's assurance that his country has no intention to annexe the Crimean peninsula or to wage a war against its neighbour.
Describing the India-EU relations as "exceptionally good," Nicholson said the EU would not get involved in Kashmir unless both parties invited it.
India's import of cheap Russian oil scaled another record in May and is now more than the combined oil bought from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE and the US, industry data showed. India took 1.96 million barrels a day from Russia in May, 15 per cent more than the previous high in April, according to data from energy cargo tracker Vortexa. Russia now makes up for nearly 42 per cent of all crude oil India imported in May.
The European Union on Wednesday got the go-ahead to hit the United States with a record $4.04 billion in trade sanctions in a long-running row over tax breaks for major exporting firms, trade officials said.
Our government shows a benign mask to the world behind which its fangs are bared against its own citizens, observes Aakar Patel.
Oil producers cartel OPEC's share in India's oil imports fell to an all-time low of 46 per cent in April as purchases of cheaper Russian oil peaked, industry data showed. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, had a 72 per cent share of all crude oil India imported in April 2022. This share slid to 46 per cent in April 2023, according to energy cargo tracker Vortexa.
Polyphonic and pluralistic, as the world's two most populous democracies, India and the European Union are beasts of similar temperament. Yet of all the countries that the EU has a strategic partnership with (there are six in total: the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Russia and India), its relationship with India is by far the least developed.Europe's eyes remain for the main part firmly trained on China.
Macron's office said the President will travel to Delhi to participate in the G20 Summit on September 9 and 10 following which he will leave for Bangladesh for a bilateral visit.
The European Union said on Friday that it would abide by the World Trade Organisation ruling that has favoured India in the bed linen dispute.\n\n\n\n
On March 15, France imposed financial sanctions on Azhar.
"The EU economy will emerge from recession in the second half of this year, although for 2009 as a whole, GDP is still set to fall by some four per cent."
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Omar Abdullah has urged the European Union Commission to use its influence for withdrawing the adverse travel advisories issued against visiting Kashmir.
The EU's assistance comes as part of its 'strategic partnership' with India and will be made available by the European Investment Bank to ICICI Bank in the first-ever cooperation between the two financial institutions.
The EU blacklist was drawn up late in 2001, following the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington and is revised regularly.
EU authorities made a last-minute offer to salvage a bailout deal that could keep Greece in the euro as the clock ticked down on Tuesday, with Germany warning that time had run out to extend vital credit lines to Athens.
'A change we have seen after the Russia-Ukraine war is the energy crisis in Europe.' 'Earlier, in Europe, people used to change their clothes after 5 washes, now they are using it till 15-20 washes.' 'They used to change their entire wardrobe after 2 months or so, but because of the economic conditions, it has changed.' 'It has affected exports as 40% of our exports is to Europe, 30% to the US and 10% to the UK.' 'The war has to end for better days to come.'
There is no official word either from China or from India on who will represent Beijing at the upcoming G20 summit.
Serie A clubs will be allowed to sign two non-European Union players per season instead of the current one, the Italian soccer federation (FIGC) said on Tuesday.
The tightening of stock exchange laws in the European Union may affect Indian companies going for overseas listing of their equity and debt issues, as they have to mandatorily stick to one country for all future fund raising activities.
It said it looked forward to the consolidation of the ties through the ongoing composite dialogue 'in an atmosphere free from the menace of terrorism and violence'.
Agreeing to resist protectionism in global trade, India and the European Union announced reaching the final stage of a trade and investment opening pact, billed as one of the largest bilateral agreements.
India will need to travel back in time and seek inspiration from football greats Tulsidas Balaram and Chuni Goswami to deftly dribble around and sidestep the West-imposed price cap on exports of Russian seaborne crude oil. India depends on imported oil to meet 86 per cent of its needs, of which nearly a quarter now comes from Russia. The copious flows are roughly 10 per cent cheaper than competing suppliers helping India save billions of dollars in fuel costs.
India's imports of crude oil from Russia touched a new high of 1.64 million barrels per day in March and is now double of the purchases from Iraq - the nation's traditional top oil supplier. But the purchases appear to have plateaued as growth has slowed. Russia continued to be the single largest supplier of crude oil, which is converted into petrol and diesel at refineries, for a sixth straight month by supplying more than one-third of all oil India imported, according to energy cargo tracker Vortexa.
Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, on Wednesday received the EU's Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg.
The proposed India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA), which seeks to liberalise trade in goods and services, could be materialised by this year, EU Ambassador to India Joao Cravinho has said.
In a major blow to China's exports, the European Union has announced that it is cancelling some of the advantages enjoyed by Chinese commodities under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) so that other developing countries can also benefit.
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