Manufacturing

Tech partnership JVs suggested Call on Asean-India to work on agri and value added products. ASEAN and India, a combined market of 1.8 billion people and part of the Indo-Pacific region, should make specific efforts on agriculture and blue economy....

Asean-China seen dumping cheaper products ASSOCHAM has listed out a number of measures to further encourage investments in for growth of local paper and paperboard products. It has called on the Central Government to re-impose 10% customs duty on import...

1.25 billion Indians hosted 10 esteemed Asean leaders at Republic Day celebration India celebrates its cultural, economic and people-to-people ties with Asean. PM Modi with the leaders from the region which shares prosperity with Indians. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi...

India-Asean export framework needed Irani addressing at the Fabric Show of India-ASEAN Weaving Textiles Relations, in New Delhi on 23 Jan 2018. ASEAN industry has been urged to leverage India's strengths in textile value chain by setting up manufacturing and...

Higher capacity plant for aerospace ecosystem Lockheed Martin's F-35. Lockheed Martin is getting closer to setting up a fighter jet manufacturing plant in India, offering a custom-built F-16. The American aerospace and defence major is now offering the best state-of-the-art...

Finance Minister approves sale price and terms The government is set to turn Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) into India's first vertically integrated 'oil major' with presence across the entire value chain, following the acquisition of Hindustan Petroleum Corp...

VP Naidu calls for land policy reforms The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu delivering the 14th Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Memorial Lecture, at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, in Bengaluru on 19 Jan 2018. Indian must strengthen the ecosystem...

Israeli to focus on Asian-African markets Prime Ministers, Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, launching the Brochure of India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund (I4F). The Israeli Government would be on exploring the possibility of re-starting negotiations on the India–Israel...

Sitharaman lauches Defence Investor Cell Sitharaman addressing the gathering at the inauguration of the Defence Industry Development Meet for Forging New Partnership with Industry for Defence Production in Chennai on 18 Jan 2018. India will host its popular defence exhibiton,...

MSMEs reservation for projects under Rs.3 crore A simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure will enable greater participation of industry in acquisition of defence equipment, with the aim of substituting imports and promoting innovative solutions. This simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure will amend the existing...