Against the backdrop of a missed deadline for normalising trade relations with India, Pakistan on Friday said the federal cabinet had reiterated its resolve to grant Most Favoured Nation-status to the neighbouring nation. ...
06:33 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Expressing her gratitude to her party, the Andhra Pradesh MP said that she is grateful to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for considering her. Daggubati Purandeswari said that she will try to give her best to the job. ...
06:53 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: An unidentified person had sent a letter to Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal using a forged letter head of Commerce Minister Anand Sharma in March and efforts are on to trace him, police said on Monday. An FIR in this regard was registered last week after a complaint filed by the Director of Vigilance Department in the Ministry of Commerce. In the complaint, the senior official said...
06:35 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma has said that the government had taken note of US President Barack Obama's remarks on economic reforms in India and said that despite everything, India had an investor-friendly climate. ...
02:40 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma says the Finance Ministry has come out with number of notifications easing investment flows. ...
07:14 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India's exports grew by a mere 3.2 per cent year-on-year to $24.4 billion in April 2012 mainly due to the slow demand in western markets like Europe. Exports stood at $23.6 billion in April 2011, according to data released by the Commerce Ministry in New Delhi on June 1. Imports during the first month of the current fiscal grew 3.8 per cent to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade...
03:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India decided to allow fresh cotton exports after a Group of Ministers meeting convened by the Prime Minister discussed the issue on Monday. Post meeting, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said that India will allow "fresh cotton export registration". The GoM will now review the situation based on revised estimates and figures of crop size. The Opposition raised the issue in Parliament on Monday with JDU leader and NDA...
01:25 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Two unidentified men stabbed a senior Commerce Ministry official after he spotted them at his house in south Delhi during a suspected theft attempt, police said on Saturday. The incident has been reported from Vasant Kunj on Friday night and the victim has been identified as Vijay Kumar Gupta, an Additional Director in Foreign Trade wing of the Ministry. The men also tried to stab his wife Kusum....
10:53 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: India on Friday allowed cotton exports to neighbouring countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, via land route after scrutinising the orders issued before the government imposed a ban on March 5 which has since been partially revoked. On March 5, the government had imposed a ban on cotton exports but the decision was rolled back on political pressure from the Congress Party and its key ally NCP, led by...
04:31 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Sunday lifted its ban on cotton exports, with Commerce Minister Anand Sharma saying that the interests of the farmers, traders and industrialists had been kept in mind to make a balanced decision. "Keeping in view the interests of farmers, traders and industrialists, a balanced view had been taken to roll back the ban on cotton exports," he said. A formal announcement with regard to the...
01:57 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Dhaka: The Commerce Ministry has said India's ban on cotton export was against global trade norms, and repeatedly stopping the shipments of the natural fibre by the country impacted Bangladesh's textiles industry. "India imposed ban on export of main raw material leaving aside trade rules and regulations. We think it (ban) is against the norms of international trade," Commerce Secretary M Ghulam Hossain said at a press conference in Dhaka...
12:01 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: A group of ministers will be meeting on Friday at 5:00 pm to discuss the row over the ban on cotton exports. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked the Commerce Ministry's decision to ban cotton exports to be reviewed. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had taken strong objection to the decision. The Commerce Ministry had taken the decision to ban cotton exports earlier...
10:31 AM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Tuesday permitted IT software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to set up a Special Economic Zone at Indore in Madhya Pradesh, even as it allowed Videocon group to pull out from its SEZ project at Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. "SEZ proposal by TCS has been cleared," a Commerce Ministry official said after meeting of the Board of Approval (BoA). The green signals to TCS and...
04:35 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Commerce Minister Anand Sharma has said that the government is committed to implementing FDI in retail. Speaking exclusively to Karan Thapar on the Devil's Advocate, Sharma said that there was no question of a rollback on the announcement in FDI in retail. "Why should it be rolled back. We have acted out of conviction, we have carefully thought it through," he said. Sharma said that the government will...
08:03 AM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: India is expected to raise the problems faced by Indians in getting visa to the UK with the visiting British Secretary of State for Justice in New Delhi on Tuesday. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who will meet UK Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke, may convey to him "that UK immigration measures proposed will result in a numerical capping of non-EU migrants to UK". The...
11:21 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Ghana govt writes to Indian govt, seeks help in probe. ...
02:38 PM, Dec 19, 2009
Lok Sabha adjourned for an hour after uproar over tabling of Bill. ...
04:49 PM, Aug 06, 2009
A well-known face of the Cong, he has been party spokesman for many years. ...
12:09 AM, May 29, 2009
He has lost the Commerce Ministry to Anand Sharma. ...
09:24 PM, May 28, 2009
Incumbent Minister Kamalnath spoke exclusive to CNN-IBN. ...
06:17 PM, May 22, 2009
