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The India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation (CECPA) is near finalization as negotiations for trade in goods and trade in services have been completed, said the Commerce and Industry Ministry on 1 Jan 2020.

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India needs to spend about US$1.4 trillion (Rs.100 lakh crore) on infrastructure through to 2025, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the release of a Report of the Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline for 2019-2025.

Private Equity (PE) investments in India was highest ever at US$37 billion in 2019 across 861 transactions, according to data from Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on private company financials, transactions and their valuations.

Higher education institutions should be allowed to invest their surpluses, estimated at Rs.15,000 crore, in a wider range of asset classes, said the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in a pre-Budget interaction with the Finance Ministry.

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest paper on term premium captures the investors’ expectations of future central bank policy, inflation and growth shocks.

India has to boost its high-technology product exports with a new strategy, Sharad Kumar Saraf, President of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), has said in his market outlook for 2020.

The Government has been urged to reduce royalty rates on mining resources and accelerate the renewable of mining leases that are expiring in 2020.

There are nascent signs that the economy is on a better footing than what it was in the year gone by, said the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in a New Year message on 28 Dec 2019.

The mining sector has called for a much sharper focus and concerted efforts by the policy makers and industry players to regain 3% share in the GDP by FY25, reveals a report ‘Towards a Globally Competitive Minerals & Mining Industry’.