German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be arriving in New Delhi on October 4 on a three-day visit during which she will hold comprehensive talks with PM Narendra Modi.
President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to ink an agreement on the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project with the Turkmen and Afghan heads of state at Ashgabat on December 11.
India will be able to bag extra orders worth $three billion for garment exports from the European Union, if the country enters into a Free Trade Agreement with the EU, apparel exports body said on Monday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left here for home on Tuesday night at the end of his nine-day visit to the US and France, during which the landmark nuclear cooperation agreement was signed with the latter.
India on Tuesday said that the European Union must liberalise its visa regime to allow free flow of businessmen and skilled professionals from the country to the continent and was looking forward to the proposed 'Blue Card' initiative to facilitate hassle-free employment of skilled migrants.
The EU should eliminate tariffs on 95 per cent of the goods under the Free Trade Agreement instead of the 90 per cent being targeted by the India-EU High Level Trade Group, the industry body said.
The Cellular Operators Association of India, the lobby of GSM players, has already petitioned telecom tribunal TDSAT challenging the government's decision to alow dual technology for mobile services and also spectrum allocation norms as suggested by the telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
The IT department of West Bengal is in the process of negotiations with some animation companies to set up an animation park in Kolkata. The state IT department initiative to set up incubation centres in Kolkata, Siliguri and Durgapur aimed to make West Bengal among the top three Indian IT states in revenue terms by 2010.
After initiating talks with the European Union for a trade agreement, India has now started talks with non-EU countries such as Norway to boost trade and investment flows.
Modi's visit to Brussels comes eight days after the deadly attacks on the city in which at least 35 people, including an Indian, died and over 300 were wounded.
EU shares its view that a new direction has to be given in energy cooperation for development of alternate sources of energy.
Industry body Assocham on Monday said country's top CEOs are in favour of signing a specialised free trade agreement with the European Union in services.
'We have set out a timetable to reduce income tax rates for all incomes below Rs 50 lakh, and to progressively eliminate the surcharges on income above Rs 50 lakh, by 2024.' The Budget speech past CII president Naushad Forbes wants to hear.
The Paytm employee, who tested positive for the contagious disease with flu like symptoms on Wednesday, came in touch with 91 people in Gurgaon, an official said, citing his counterpart in the suburban town.
Panic gripped passengers at the Indira Gandhi international airport on Tuesday after the Jet Airways call centre received threats about bombs in five of its aircraft from New Delhi.
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