Economy

The Government is totally committed to bringing transparency to the system since transparency is key to controlling corruption, said Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office.

A Singapore exhibition of Indian origin products has the potential to grow into a major platform for Indian exporters to reach out to the ASEAN markets of 640 million people of which 6.1 million are of Indian origin.

The Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for amendment to the 'Framework on Currency Swap Arrangement for SAARC Member Countries' to incorporate a 'Standby Swap' amounting to US$400 million.

The Government is pushing a new e-commerce policy from February 2019 wherein the concept of ‘exclusivity’ will no longer hold good, writes Anuj Kejriwal, MD & CEO – ANAROCK Retail.

Germany’s BMW @bmw has launched its new X4 car model from its Chennai-based plant for luxury car market in India.

India will host the 2nd World Integrated Medicine Forum 2019 on the ‘Regulation of Homeopathic Medical Products; Advancing global collaboration’ being organized from 23-25 January 2019 in Goa.

Confederation of Industry (CII) says policy measures are required to ease the tight liquidity situation by effecting a cut in CRR rate of at least 50 basis points.

The Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) and the Assam Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further enhance the World Bank funded inland water transport (IWT) system to improve commuter safety in the state.

The capacities if Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) of the economically weak Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) are being given a revenue generating boost through a government programme.

RBI meets industry chambers     The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has urged the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to consider cutting the repo rate and CRR to enable lowering of lending rates by banks....