Private and foreign corporate investment may soon get to flow into Indian higher education with the government considering a move to reform policy that hinders such financing.
Sebi likely to come out with a policy paper soon.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has rejected a proposal by Tata Investment Corporation (TIC) to issue zero coupon convertible bonds (ZCCBs) with detachable warrants to its shareholders.
India's largest airline has also told its crew members -- who are working on flights connecting India with East Asian countries like Thailand and Singapore -- to wear N95 masks at all times when they are on ground.
The minister observed it took years to get permissions to start a project.
The CBI on Wednesday registered a case against social activist Teesta Setalvad and her organisation for alleged violation of FCRA in recieving funds from abroad without taking prior permission from the home ministry.
The Directorate of Enforcement is investigating Ringing Bells, the company which has launched smartphone for Rs 251, for alleged contravention of FEMA.
The jewellers and companies linked to Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi had allegedly colluded with PNB officers to obtain fake bank guarantees to get loan from overseas branches of Indian banks including Allahabad Bank, Axis Bank and UCO Bank.
The interior ministry had opposed enlisting of the MML as a political party, arguing that it is an offshoot of the banned JuD.
Legal loopholes, weak evidence and irrelevant sections invoked against Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, led to the granting of his bail, an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad said.
The EU too urged Pak to ensure "safe and secure conditions" for the polls.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning to reduce the time gap between opening of an issue and the listing of securities on the bourse and make the registration norms for foreign institutional investors (FIIs) more flexible.
Listing out the achievements of his government, he said the country has moved away from a culture of delaying work through 'atkana, latkana and bhatkana' (obstructing, delaying and misguiding).
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday told global investors that no further measures were in the offing to curb capital inflows, even as he said India would ease procedures for foreign institutional investors (FIIs) to register and do business in the country.
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Relaxing its norms for foreign investors, Sebi on Thursday allowed overseas entities using complex multi-fund structures to invest in India, if they need to use such models due to regulations in their home country and they are ready to provide details of actual beneficiary of funds.
Modi said the ease of doing business ranking improved because the government initiated reforms to end difficulties in the lives of people.
To cut transaction costs for traders, the government has launched an online facility for issuing Importer-Exporter Code Number.
An American businessman, involved in a legal battle with an Indian citizen Rakesh Wadhwa over the control of Nepal's casino industry, is planning to open a floating casino in Goa.
Foreign reinsurance companies are now allowed to do business in India.
The government on Friday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation into transfer of funds by United States-based Ford Foundation to Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt Limited, with which social activist Teesta Stelvad is associated, allegedly in violation of rules and froze a bank account of the firm.
While no exact dates have been announced yet, the flights could take off from San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Washington DC, the officials said.
Multiple levels of integrations with the bank servers are required for enabling transactions.
The regulator last week reached out to custodians for beneficial ownership information of investors coming from China, Hong Kong, and 11 other countries.
Noted fusion artist and playback singer Remo, summoned by police for allegedly threatening a minor girl has surrendered his Indian citizenship and became a Portuguese national.
The American influential IT and telecom industry sought intervention of the Obama Administration against what they alleged are "discriminatory" Indian policies, which they claimed has resulted in several hundred millions of dollars of losses in the last quarter.
This may mean easier access, simplified KYC and documentation requirements, and fewer investment restrictions for a majority of FPIs, especially broad-based funds and pooled vehicles that were earlier part of Category-II.
Over 2,000 delegates, including from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West from March 1-15, officials said as the south Delhi neighbourhood was virtually sealed following fears that some people may have contracted COVID-19.
On compilation of six crucial documents, it was found that around two lakh of them from one crore were forged.
"Chau violated all the norms. Moreover, he had also not informed the hotel (that he was visiting the area)."
Life Insurance Corporation of India, its foreign arm LIC International and the New India Assurance Co will join hands for setting up a joint venture company in Saudi Arabia to offer life and non-life insurance products to non resident Indians and oth
Twenty-four pages of a 39-page dossier prepared by India are devoted to the photographs and Google Maps locations of Naved's residence.
The Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party have alleged that the Russian interference had contributed in Trump's electoral victory
Pakistani authorities have lodged a first information report into the Pathankot terror attack case, officials said on Friday.
In the afternoon, the home minister will introduce the Bill to amend the six-decade-old Citizenship Act and later in the day, it will be taken up for discussion and passage, according to the Lok Sabha's List of Business for Monday.
The state government issued the notice to the Phagwara-based LPU attitude as 'extremely callous and irresponsible' in handling the case of a 21-year-old, corona-positive woman hosteller and keeping itself open, and sought its explanation over the breach of lockdown orders.
The government has formed the Export Promotion Council for Pharmaceuticals (Pharmaexcil) to boost pharma exports.
About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life called the registration of the FIR against The Wire's founding editor an attack on press freedom.
As its factories resumed operations after over two-month of grim battle against coronavirus, China is busy tapping into the vast business opportunities of export of key medical goods, specially ventilators and personal protection equipment (PPE), across the world, including India, where both private and government bodies are placing orders for the import of these products.
