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Govt. allows FIIs, NRIs to invest in insurance sector

The Union Government has allowed 26% foreign investment in insurance sector in activities related to insurance viz. broking, Third Party Administrators (TPAs) and surveyors and permitted Foreign Institutional...

February 9, 2014

Delhi becomes first state to withdraw FDI in Multibrand Retail

The Aam Aadmi Party-led government has withdrawn the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail in Delhi.  The government formally wrote to the Department of Industrial Policy and...

January 16, 2014    India Nation & States Current Affairs

Cabinet approves raising foreign investment to 62% in Axis Bank

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has given nod to the proposal of Axis Bank for hiking foreign investment from 49% to 62% entailing an inflow of...

December 29, 2013

GoI appoints panel to define FDI and FII

Government of India set up a four member committee headed by Arvind Mayaram, Economic Affairs Secretary to clear the ambiguity between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional...

October 5, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Current Account Deficit (CAD) in Q1 surges to $21.8 billion

As per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s Current Account Deficit (CAD) for the first quarter ended June 2013 has widened to 4.9% of Gross Domestic Product...

October 4, 2013    India Nation & States Current Affairs

Definition of 'control' in relation to FDI notified by RBI

The Reserve Bank of India notified the definition of term ‘control’ in the context of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and revised the list of states where FDI is allowed in multi-brand...

September 16, 2013

SEBI relaxes KYC norms for foreign investors

In a bid to attract foreign investors to Indian capital markets, stock market regulator SEBI eased registration and disclosure norms for low-risk foreign investors and exempted low-risk overseas...

September 16, 2013

No proposal to increase FDI ceiling in banks

The government has clarified that there is no proposal to raise foreign investment limit in the banking sector. What is the current status of foreign investment in banking...

August 24, 2013

FDI limit in Asset Reconstruction Companies hiked to 74% – RBI

As per the RBI, the limit on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) has been increased to 74% from 49%, another measure to attract capital inflows to...

August 20, 2013

Government to tweak FDI policy for pharma to protect domestic units

A high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Commerce and Industry Ministry to start inter-Ministerial consultations on the issue of changing the norms of...

August 20, 2013

CCEA approves dilution of safeguards for FDI in multi-brand retail

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has given its nod for the “dilution” of certain safeguards including relaxing the 30% sourcing norm and doing away with the...

August 4, 2013    India Nation & States Current Affairs

CCEA to consider new definition of “Control” in FDI policy

The existing clause in the FDI policy states that a company owned and controlled by resident Indian citizens has the power to appoint majority of its directors in...

August 3, 2013

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