Business / Trade in India
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INDIA, 2017/07/07
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his three-day visit to Israel, a visit to a beach with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday made waves on social media next the two were pictured taking a barefoot stroll in the Mediterranean.
His trip, the initial of its kind for an Indian premier, included new economic deals, and time spent with Netanyahu to deepen their relationship.
They ended the trip with a visit to Olga Beach in the northern coastal city of Haifa, strolling in the shallow water with a photographer and camera crew on hand.
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INDIA, 2017/07/07
Narendra Modi’s three-day visit, the initial by an Indian prime minister, ends today. It has not been a mere historic nod to the quarter-century since the nations established diplomatic relations. It as well signals a broad geopolitical realignment, with India growing additional visible abroad, and Israel broadening its foreign policy from once almost entirely Western alliances towards emerging Asian powers.
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INDIA, 2017/07/02
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BANGLADESH, 2017/06/27
The Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional grouping has realised that narrowing connectivity gaps is a must for facilitating regional trade. Improved connectivity, which the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is only making slow evolution on, is essential to providing cheaper access to goods and services, creating additional jobs and from presently on helping to alleviate poverty at a faster rate.
The BBIN initiative, as such, has emphasised building connectivity from its beginning. Its vision involves increasing trade and cooperation within eastern South Asia, ensuring faster movements of goods and people, building sustainable development through water resource management and striving for climate protection.
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INDIA, 2017/06/27
A political earthquake shook the Persian Gulf and its neighbours on 5 June 2017 at the same time as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt all severed links with Qatar, a member of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). These nations were any minute at this time joined by Libya, Yemen and the Maldives. Kuwait and Oman, the other two members of GCC, refused to follow Saudi Arabia’s lead.
Saudi Arabia declared that it had made the decision because of Qatar’s ‘embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilising the region’, inclunding the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, the so-called Islamic National (IS) and groups supported by Iran. This sounds strange (to put in mildly) because Saudi Arabia can be accused of similar or worse crimes, inclunding in the ongoing Syrian conflict. Qatar vehemently denies that it supports terrorism, arguing that it has assisted the United States in the War on Terror and in the ongoing military intervention against ISIS.
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CHINA, 2017/06/20
India and China are working together to find common ground ahead of the summit in September of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping, despite their differences over docking the Beijing-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the alliance in the future.
At a conference of political parties, think tanks and civil society groups of BRICS held in Fuzhou, The Hindu has learnt, the Indian and Chinese delegations failed to arrive at a consensus that the five emerging economies should formally support the BRI.
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INDIA, 2017/05/29
India views its ties with Malaysia as a core element of its Act East Policy, while the Malaysian leadership has taken note of India’s geopolitical importance and the a lot of attractions of its market Both nations share a strong commitment to multiculturalism, democracy and inclusive development.
It’s the 60th anniversary this year of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and India, and an apt time to take stock of ties that have been mostly in a steady national of bloom.
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INDIA, 2017/04/29
Despite its enormous potential, the India–Australia partnership had remained low key for a long time. But since 2014 the two nations have instilled a new dynamism in their relations. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to India from 9–12 April carried a great transaction of significance for the flourishing bilateral partnership. Though it was his initial visit to India, he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met on the sidelines of the G20 conference held in China in September 2016.
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INDIA, 2016/11/23
The National Hawker Federation (NHF) expresses its strong disagreement with the ways in which the Government of India has addressed the evil of corruption in the country. While we do feel as a collective of additional than 1176 unions and associations of street vendors of this country, that black money and the corruption raj should end and policy of law be established, we strongly believe that struggle against corruption cannot be waged devoid of a strong social will, a long-term schedule, an alternative infrastructural vision, and popular consent.
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INDIA, 2016/11/04
Nigerian authorities have announced plans to sign a transaction worth $15 billion as an advance crude oil payment from the government of India..
Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s junior minister for Petroleum Resources, says the $15 billion in advance oil payments will provide some respite for Nigeria’s current cash flow problems.
According to theCable, the transaction will see the Indian government make an upfront payment for the purchase of Nigerian crude, which would be repaid on the basis of firm term crude contracts over a couple of years.
