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FDI Confidence Index 2018: India ranks 11th

India was ranked 11th position in the FDI Confidence Index 2018 released by global consultancy firm A T Kearney. It has slipped by three notches in 2018 as...

May 4, 2018

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Mechanism

Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism is a system which allows individual companies to sue countries for their discriminatory practices. The practice came to light through the Philip Morris v....

May 1, 2018

Trade Facilitation Agreement

The government had approved a proposal to notify the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in February, 2016. The proposal regarding ratification and acceptance...

April 7, 2018

India attracts $209 billion FDI in 2014-2017: Government

India has attracted reaching US $208.99 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) during April 2014 to December 2017 period. The main sectors that received maximum FDI include services, computer...

March 13, 2018

Mauritius was largest source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India in FY17

Mauritius was the largest source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India in FY17, according to recent census by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It has 21.8%...

January 22, 2018

Peter Sutherland, former DG of WTO passes away

Peter Denis Sutherland (71), the former Director General (DG) of World Trade Organization (WTO), has passed away in Dublin, Ireland. Sutherland became the WTO’s first chief in 1995,...

January 8, 2018

India to host mini-ministerial meeting of WTO members in Feb 2018 to revitalize multi-lateral trade body

The mini-ministerial meeting of WTO members from both rich and developing nations is proposed to be hosted by India in February 2018 to revitalize the multi-lateral trade body....

January 1, 2018

India to host meeting of WTO member countries in February on food security and other issues

India will host a meeting of WTO member countries in February 2018 to muster support for food security and other issues. This was stated by Commerce and Industry...

December 19, 2017

India gets maximum FDI from Singapore

As per the report by industry chamber PHDCCI and KPMG, in 2015-16, India had received the maximum FDI inflows from Singapore followed by Mauritius, the US, the Netherlands...

December 22, 2016

FIIs pull out $2 billion hot money from India in 2016

India is headed towards losing its safe haven status among foreign portfolio investors after a nearly USD 2-billion pullout of so-called ‘hot money’ 2016. This has made it...

December 15, 2016

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