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Japan and India Pledge to Strengthen Ties as China Rises
September 2nd, 2014
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged an upgrade of economic and security ties with India, saying Japan would double investment and expand defence cooperation amid concerns about China’s growing influence in the region. Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi ...
India’s Narendra Modi launches bank accounts for all
August 28th, 2014
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor. Nearly 40% of Indians have little access to financial services and are often at ...
India Hedge Funds Are World’s Best Performer on ‘Modi, the Hero’
August 27th, 2014
Hedge funds investing in India have become the world’s best performers this year on expectations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will revive Asia’s third-largest economy. India-focused hedge funds, with a sixth of the $16.5 billion in assets of those ...
India regulator fines carmakers $420 million for anti-competitive practices
August 26th, 2014
India’s pricing regulator has fined more than a dozen global and local carmakers a total of 25.5 billion rupees ($420 million) after a probe found they had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the world’s sixth largest auto market. The ...
Indian States towards GST Implementation
August 22nd, 2014
The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers made significant progress towards the implementation of a Goods and Services Tax (GST). While a number of hurdles remain, the Government was said to have reassured states about the payment of compensation ...
India Sets Norms to Open $20 Billion REIT Market
August 11th, 2014
India approved the setting up and listing of real estate investment trusts as the nation seeks to unlock a $20 billion market. The trusts, or REITs, will have to own assets worth at least 5 billion rupees ($82 million), ...
Indian police arrests bank chief over bribery
August 4th, 2014
Indian police have arrested the chairman of state-run Syndicate bank, Sudhir Kumar Jain, and several others over allegations of bribery. Mr Jain has been accused of taking bribes to raise credit limits of firms. The Central Bureau of Investigation ...
India to face a new technique for gold
August 1st, 2014
India is scrambling to crack down on a new gold smuggling tactic that it fears could accelerate a flood of illegal imports of the precious metal into the world’s second-biggest buyer. India — whose appetite for gold is only ...
Questions raised after India Blocks WTO Trade Deal
August 1st, 2014
Several member states of the World Trade Organisation voiced frustration after India’s demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling led to the collapse of the first major global trade reform pact in two decades. WTO ministers had already agreed the ...
Amazon to invest $2 billion more in India
July 30th, 2014
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) announced that is planning to invest a further $2 billion in India just a day after the country’s largest e-tailer Flipkart attracted $1 billion of fresh funds, raising the stakes in a nascent but fast-growing e-commerce ...
