EPFO's guaranteed pension plan may remain only on paper
Neither the government, nor the employers or employees is willing to shell out the additional contribution of 0.63% of basic pay to fund pension.
India ready to block any move to put farm tariffs at WTO meet
India will resist any attempt to take away the right of WTO-member nations to restrict export of food items and raise import tariffs beyond existing levels.
India worried over rising trade gap with China; NSC secretariat sends out note detailing concerns
India's trade deficit with China is estimated to reach $60 billion by 2014-15, up nearly three-fold from $23 billion in 2010-11.
Sonia Gandhi wishes, but there’s no money to expand health cover
The labour ministry is also sitting on human resource development ministry's proposal on allowing primary school teachers to subscribe to RSBY.
Before knocking on WTO doors, India seeks talks with US on steel duty
India has decided to seek consultations with the US on the 'wrongful' imposition of penal duties on its steel exports.
Government plans to maintain fiscal deficit target from next year
Government has indicated that it intends to return to the fiscal consolidation road map promised in the February budget from the next year onwards.
Bigger local play sought for SEZs
The suggestion comes in the backdrop of SEZs becoming less appealing to investors following partial withdrawal of tax incentives this fiscal.
EU to ease visa rules if India opens its market
For India, the big-ticket beneficiaries of the visa relaxation rule would be information technology and IT-enabled services sectors.
US, EU seek to ban countries from imposing restrictions on food export, limit taxation on exports
Rich nations are likely to seek a ban on food export curbs as part of a solution to the global food crisis, a move India vows to fight vehemently.
Final push to India-Asean FTA in services on anvil
PM will make yet another attempt to convince the ten-member Asean group to conclude the long-pending free trade agreement on services.
We’ve got Visa power!
India and Pakistan have once again proved to all skeptics that when they talk business, they mean business! The signing of the new bilateral visa agreement replacing the restrictive 37 year old pact is yet...
Chinese Checkers
It may not be easy for Indians to love the Chinese. But it is impossible to hate them. Yes, they do flood us with cheap products ranging from diyas and crackers to chemicals, metals, electronics...
Economics scores over mindless patriotism
If Pakistan needed to show proof of its sincerity in wanting closer economic ties with India, it has indeed done so. It finally walked the talk this week with its Federal Cabinet agreeing to put...
Economics scores over mindless patriotism
If Pakistan needed to show proof of its sincerity in wanting closer economic ties with India, it has indeed done so. It finally walked the talk this week with its Federal Cabinet agreeing to put...
India-EU FTA–not a lost cause
The Indian media is full of stories on how the India-EU free trade agreement will not be signed during the India-EU summit in New Delhi on Friday. I wonder what made people think that the...
India-Pakistan’s MFN roller-coaster
When the Pakistani Cabinet decided on November 2 to allow grant of most favoured nation or MFN status to India that would result in removal of import restrictions, the media, as expected, went to town...
Love thy neighbour
Can we bully the Asean please?
The changed face of Doha
Make trade, not war
Bitter pill for multinationals
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