India will convey its concerns to the UK authorities about the new British immigration law which will impact professionals earning below 35,000 pounds annually.

Mumbai: Foreign direct investment in India has been growing around 48 percent despite the global economic slowdown that has seen FDI declining elsewhere, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday."FDI in the world is falling...

New Delhi: India negotiated hard at the WTO's recent Nairobi ministerial meeting to ensure that the interests of developing countries remain at the centre of the multi-lateral trade body's agenda, parliament was informed on Tuesday."India

Nairobi: Any consensus was elusive at the WTO tonight on major agriculture-related issues as India lodged a strong protest against any move to eliminate farm export subsidies without safeguarding the interest of developing nations.The disagreement

Nairobi: India today expressed fear that the WTO's Doha Development Agenda (DDA) appears to be in “jeopardy” and stressed that history will “judge us (WTO ministers) poorly” if inequities in global trade are allowed to

New Delhi: The government is taking steps to increase India's total exports to USD 900 billion by 2020, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. She said the government is taking steps "to facilitate

Washington: India and the US have agreed to continue their engagement on the vexed issue of a totalization agreement for the purpose of avoiding double taxation of income with respect to social security taxes."There is

New Delhi: Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that government will import another 2,000 ton of pulses as part of its efforts to bring down prices. "We will be putting tender for import of additional 2,000

New Delhi: As UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav dared the central government to ban beef exports, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said such exports including of cow and calf meat are already prohibited.As a blame

Washington: In a development that is likely to raise eyebrows in China, the US, India and Japan have decided to elevate their trilateral partnership to the ministerial level, first meeting of which is scheduled to

Washington: Notwithstanding a financial crisis being experienced by major economies like China, India "stands out" as a "shining star" in the global economy and is sustaining a certain momentum despite challenges, Commerce and Industry Minister

New Delh:  Slamming a "confused and afraid" Congress for disrupting the ongoing monsoon session of parliament, the BJP on Sunday said party president Sonia Gandhi will have to take the blame if the session was

New Delhi:  After India clubbed categories of foreign capital flowing into domestic companies, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said foreign institutional investment (FII) limits in the banking and defence sector have been retained at

New Delhi: With the opposition threat to disrupt parliament, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said there was no threat to the ruling BJP from the Vyapam scam.“There is absolutely no threat to the Bharatiya

New Delhi: With the opposition warning of a stormy parliament session, top BJP leaders met party president Amit Shah here on Sunday to finalise their strategy for the session.The meeting comes a day ahead of

New Delhi: Ahead of the Parliament session, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today pushed for early passage of the Land Bill which is stuck due to opposition from various parties, insisting that the proposed legislation would

New Delhi: Ahead of the RBI's monetary policy review, the government today “strongly” pushed for interest rate cut saying availability of affordable credit was necessary to boost manufacturing.“We are working with the the RBI. The

New Delhi: Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will lead a business delegation to Algeria from May 26 to June 1, 2015, a FICCI statement said here on Saturday."India has been given a status of Guest of

New Delhi: BJP today came out strongly in defence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Arun Shourie's attack on his government and said he was a “fair weather friend” and could be having a “grouse”

Bengaluru: With the land bill emerging as a common anti-government plank for the opposition, BJP today vowed to take on the “disinformation campaign” being run by the Congress and other parties by reaching out to