Washington: A group of major American business organisations and advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a new alliance against what they allege as India's "discriminatory" economic policies, including intellectual property issues, which they claim hurt US jobs and economy. Co-chaired by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC), the Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) was launched in Washington ahead of the India visit of the US Secretary of State John Kerry, for the fourth India-US Strategic Dialogue.
"India's unfair trade practices against US manufactured exports is putting jobs at risk and harming American manufacturing workers," said NAM vice president for International Economic Affairs Linda Dempsey. "The Obama administration must engage the Indian government in high-level discussions to put an end to these practices to protect manufacturers' competitiveness and jobs," Dempsey said.
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01:02 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said it will take steps to increase foreign investment flows into the country to strengthen rupee and the regulators will act at appropriate time to contain the fall in domestic currency that touched a record low of 58.96 to a dollar. "We will continue to implement measures to ensure that portfolio investor inflows are enabled and encouraged and some of these measures will...
04:50 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Washington: US lawmakers have joined some top business organisations of the country to allege that the "restrictive" and "protectionist" policies of India are putting a growing bilateral trade at risk, an issue said to be of deep concern for the Obama administration. "We're very concerned about the innovation and the investment environment in India at the moment," Mike Froman, National Deputy Security Advisor on economic policies to US President Barack...
04:46 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Hyderabad: Senior CPI leader AB Bardhan on Saturday took exception to some CPI (M) leaders' reported remarks over his party's policies and programmes. Noting that the CPI (M) leaders claimed that his party had no programme or policy, he said, "The CPI continued to work vibrantly on various burning issues and problems of the poor and the deprived." He spoke at the state council meeting of the CPI in Hyderabad...
12:25 AM, May 19, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's governing coalition won a tight national election on Sunday to extend its 56-year rule, fending off an opposition alliance that pledged to clean up politics and end race-based policies in Southeast Asia's third-largest economy. As counting went late into the night, the fractious multiracial opposition proved unable to unseat one of the world's longest-serving governments and pull off what would have been the biggest election upset in...
01:13 AM, May 06, 2013
Former RBI governor YV Reddy said that the government should increase fiscal expenditure, as the private sector cannot meet the rising demand for water, sanitation and public health. ...
04:12 PM, Feb 26, 2013
CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said the "alternative policies" of the party would be announced on March 19 at the culmination of a nationwide rally at Delhi against the policies of the Centre. He claimed that only the Left parties could incorporate alternative policies in India as both Congress and BJP are following the same economic policies and "are stuck with corruption". ...
01:39 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Is calling a two-day bandh good for the country and its people? Secretary General of Confederation of All India Traders Praveen Khandelwal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction the issue. ...
04:10 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday blamed the "wrong economic policies" of the UPA government for price rise and sought scrapping of existing system of Trade Parity Price for petroleum fuel. ...
05:32 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Former Army chief General VK Singh on Monday blamed successive governments at the Centre and states for the rise of Naxalism in the country, noting that a host of issues like lack of development and violation of people's rights helped strengthening base of the ultras in the country. ...
05:47 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Berlin: Facebook will fight a German privacy watchdog's demand to allow users to register with fake names, insisting Tuesday that its current practice fully complies with the law. The California-based social networking site has long required users to register with their real names - a policy that the data protection commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein state says is in breach of German law and European rules designed to protect free speech online....
10:55 AM, Dec 19, 2012
San Francisco: Instagram, which spurred suspicions this week that it would sell user photos after revising its terms of service, has sparked renewed debate about how much control over personal data users must give up to live and participate in a world steeped in social media. In forcefully establishing a new set of usage terms, Instagram, the massively popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, has claimed some rights that...
09:22 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Pledging to alter the policy environment to accelerate economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday promised to address concerns on GAAR and taxation of the IT sector along with giving high priority to finalisation of the Direct Taxes Code and Goods and Services Tax. At the same time, he called for need to address the issues of under pricing of electricity and petroleum products to cut down...
03:56 AM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday spoke up for reforms and the cash transfer scheme and hit out at the Opposition. Manmohan said that the government will beat the climate of pessimism with strong measures to push growth. Amidst global slowdown impacting India as well, the Prime Minister also said that the government is committed to do everything to put economy back on a high growth path of...
11:20 AM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: In order to deal with the issue of accumulation of wealth, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the time has come for a debate on imposition of inheritance tax. "Sometimes I doubt whether we have taken moderation (in tax rates) too far. Have we paid little attention to accumulation of wealth in few hands? I am still hesitant to talk about inter-generational equity and therefore inheritance tax....
09:34 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday ruled out passing resolutions by its state governments against central policies as done by the West Bengal Assembly on FDI in multi-brand retail, saying this would set a dangerous trend of opposition- ruled states blocking central plans. Senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, while speaking out at a programme organised by BJP's Traders' Cell, turned down a proposal from the members that states where BJP...
03:56 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday hit out at Congress saying its isolation is complete with UPA allies not being able to live up with its "arrogance" after indications emerged that Trinamool Congress may consider pulling out its ministers from the Centre over diesel hike and FDI issues. Party leader Balbir Punj also demanded that a special session of Parliament should be summoned and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should resign immediately....
03:22 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the Congress-led UPA Government, saying "the plane of its economic policies, instead of taking off, has actually crash landed". "Rather than taking things forward, the UPA Government has actually wasted a decade. The plane of UPA's economic policies, instead of taking off, has actually crash landed," Modi said, addressing Gujarati diaspora in the US through video conferencing. Also taking a dig...
06:32 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Rebutting the criticism by the government and the Congress party on coal blocks allocation, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Wednesday said it has the mandate to examine and scrutinise public policies. "...policies of a government do not emerge from vacuum but a culmination of a due diligence process that involves faithful examination and analysis of empirical evidence on the ground, higher values of governance, feasibility of...
07:05 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh on Wednesday said in the Supreme Court that the government should continue to have the freedom to frame policies for the "alienation, transfer and allocation of natural resources". "Any judicial interference with such policies should be limited to the instance... which essentially mandate that the policies should be fair and transparent and in public interest," the state government told the apex court constitution bench. The bench comprising...
03:46 AM, Aug 02, 2012
