Europe’s largest economy Germany and Asia’s third largest economy India have a healthy bi-lateral economic relations despite the sluggish speed of concluding Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement. As Indian Prime Minister Modi’s most of the policies such as Make in India or Digital India, are focused on making India a manufacturing ...
Read More »Trans-Pacific agreement has an impact on India’s foreign trade
The US and 11 other countries reached a landmark deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which aims to become the world’s largest free-trade zone linking 40 per cent of the global economy and would also have implications on India’s foreign trade. The deal would have implications on India’s foreign trade as ...
Read More »Modi’s Foreign Policy Team
Indian Vascodagamian (because he loves leaving Indian shores frequently) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the full command of Indian foreign policy since his coming into power last year. Modi has visited 25 countries in 16 months – this is his second ongoing visit to the USA. It seems India’s ...
Read More »India to reduce e-tourist visa fees
India has decided to reduce visa fees for tourists arriving under the highly successful Electronic Tourist Visa (ETV) scheme. India’s fee for ETV is USD 60 and the facility extends to 113 countries. Under the ETV scheme, an applicant receives an email authorising him or her to travel to India ...
Read More »Modi’s visit to Ireland – Bolstering trade and improving its bid for UNSC
Indian PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Ireland on Wednesday after 60 years has surprised many of international relations experts if not all of them. There can be two reasons for this visit- firstly, improving trade relations and appealing to Indian diaspora for investment, and secondly, getting support for its permanent ...
Read More »Post UN Millennium Development Goal
The Millennium Development Goals – 8 goals, 20 targets, and 60+ indicators declared in UN 2000 – have come to an end this year. Those countries who have failed to achieve the target set in UNMDP have not much time left to catch up now. The states who have failed ...
Read More »Sushma Swaraj woos US industry to invest in India for win-win outcome
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address at the 40th Annual Gala of the US India Business Council ( USIBC), sought investments from the US industry in both public and private sectors in the country for a “win-win” outcome. The focus now is on building 100 smart cities; rejuvenating ...
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu sends envoy to speed up Modi visit
Mr. Katribas, the Deputy Director-General in the Prime Minister’s Office, was in Delhi for meetings on “Digital India, agricultural cooperation and water technology” and the real purpose was to try and begin negotiations on the dates for Mr. Modi’s visit. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced that Modi would visit ...
Read More »US calls for smoother tax regime, ease of doing business in India
The Obama administration has openly called for a simplified tax regime and ease of doing business in India to attract global investments, including from the US. “For India to achieve its goal of sustainable growth and development, it must assure global markets and international investors that it is open for ...
Read More »India talks with Sri Lanka on $5.19 billion road project to begin by October
India is set to engage in high-level talks with Sri Lanka by October for an ambitious $5.19 billion road project to connect both the nations through a sea-bridge and an under water tunnel linking 22 km stretch between Talaimannar, Sri Lanka and Dhanushkodi, India. The development follows Road Transport and ...
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