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Articles 1221 through 1320 of 2635:
- Indo-Us Trade To Touch $40 B By 2008 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
As part of the ongoing exercise to diversify economic ties between India and the USA, both countries, on Saturday, decided to double two-way trade to US$ 40 billion by 2008.
- Wto Woes Overshadow U.S. - India Trade Meeting (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
Top U.S. and Indian officials will discuss how to advance troubled world trade talks and strengthen bilateral trade ties when they meet in New Delhi on Saturday, U.S. trade officials said.
- Us Trade Representative Holds Discussion With Chidambaram..... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
US Trade Representative Robert Portman today had a detailed discussion on investment and trade issues with Finance Minister P Chidambaram here.
- Us Trade Representative Holds Discussion With Chidambaram (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
US Trade Representative Robert Portman today had a detailed discussion on investment and trade issues with Finance Minister P Chidambaram here.
- ‘Nath And I Could Solve The Wto Issue In Half An Hour’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
The inaugural session of the US-India Trade Policy Forum started today, with commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath and US trade representative(USTR) ambassador Rob Portman, participating in extensive consultations over Indo-US trade and multilateral i
- Us For Push To Wto Talks, Non-Committal On Concessions (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2005)
The United States today made a srong case to push forward WTO trade talks, which are passing through "tough times", but was non-committal on giving further concessions on agriculture, saying there was pressure from its domestic farm lobby.
- India, Us Try To Sort Out Subsidy Issue (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Nov 13, 2005)
Despite wide differences among WTO members over the issue of subsidies and opening of markets, India and the US today held discussions aimed to break the likely deadlock at the ministerial level conference at Hong Kong to be held from December 13 to 18...
- Wto Woes Overshadow U.S. - India Trade Meeting (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 12, 2005)
Top U.S. and Indian officials will discuss how to advance troubled world trade talks and strengthen bilateral trade ties when they meet in New Delhi on Saturday, U.S. trade officials said.
- Cold Shower (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 12, 2005)
When the US announced a review of the dumping duty on shrimp imports from India and Thailand in the wake of the tsunami disaster last year,
- Aziz And Morshed Discuss Ways To Strengthen Saarc (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 12, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday discussed the future agenda of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the possibility of getting new members and observers into its fold.
- Centre Bowing To U.S. Pressure: Cpi Leader (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 11, 2005)
"No Left commitment on disinvestments"
Chidambaram should not allow the U.S. to interfere in our economic policies: CPI
Left leaders to meet Kamal Nath on WTO issues
- Increasing Tax Revenue (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Nov 11, 2005)
Pakistan needs far more financial resources than it can readily mobilize in these difficult times.
- Volcker Report Not Final Word On India's Destiny: Cpi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 11, 2005)
The Communist Party of India today asked the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre not to succumb to US pressure on foreign policy matters and called for a thorough probe into the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme.
- Doha Round: Consensus Not `Developing' (Business Line, BATUK GATHANI, Nov 11, 2005)
Politicians on both sides of the "free trade" fence have deployed the correct rhetoric to argue their points of view to lower or sustain indefinitely most sensitive trade barriers. This even suggests that the four-year-old Doha Round may be . . . .
- Stitch In Time (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 11, 2005)
Though the Chinese A significant drop in telecom call tariffs in India appeared imminent with the Government on Thursday cutting the licence fee for offering national and international long distance services to a uniform Rs. 2.50 crore from the . . . .
- Increasing Tax Revenue (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Nov 10, 2005)
Pakistan needs far more financial resources than it can readily mobilize in these difficult times. Much more funds are required than what the donors are willing to offer for relief and rehabilitation of the survivors of the earthquake of October 8.
- Cold Shower (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 10, 2005)
When the US announced a review of the dumping duty on shrimp imports from India and Thailand in the wake of the tsunami disaster last year, it was hoped that this ill-conceived duty would be gone for good.
- India Presents Road Map For Financial Sector Reforms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 10, 2005)
Assures U.S. it will make all-out efforts to curb money laundering
Financial Action Task Force recommendations to be implemented
Technical cooperation in currency security
- Preserving The Vibrancy Of Cultures (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 10, 2005)
The adoption of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions by UNESCO last month is unlikely to keep the communication and content industry out of global trade negotiations.
- Stitch In Time (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 10, 2005)
THOUGH THE CHINESE Commerce Minister, Mr Bo Xilai, described the textile trade deal between the US and China as a `win-win' situation for both sides, Beijing has got a better deal than Washington.
- Snow Favours More Fdi In Infrastructure (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Nov 09, 2005)
To discuss with P. Chidambaram emerging market economies today Opening up of financial sector will bring in resources
- Don’T Deviate From Doha: India (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Nov 09, 2005)
Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath made it known that India will go to any extent to secure the “core developmental objectives” of the Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations.
- Nda Too Seeks Un Info (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Gearing up for a pitched political battle with the government on the controversial Volcker report in the coming winter session of Parliament, the NDA on Monday approached the United Nations and sought documents which had named the Congress and Union Minis
- Who Needs Doha? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 08, 2005)
The Hong Kong ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation is a little over a month away. Recent indications are that Hong Kong may go the Cancun way.
- Why Is The Economy Doing So Well? (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 08, 2005)
The gap between commentary and performance could hardly be starker. As the UPA government enters its middle period, the absence of political support for economic reform has been widely noted.
- Us Treasury Secretary John Snow Arrived In New Delhi On A Five-Day Visit To India (India Daily, Special Correspondent, The Financial Express, Nov 08, 2005)
According to media sources, Snow, who arrived here this morning, is scheduled to meet captains of Indian industry and visit the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange tomorrow, a US embassy spokesperson said.
- Doha Round On A Knife-Edge (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Nov 07, 2005)
The Doha Round is delicately poised and it seems only a miracle at Hong Kong, the last checkpoint of progress, can push it forward. If the Hong Kong meeting has nothing important to tell the world about the ongoing negotiations the completion . . .
- Trade Ministers Including The U.S., Brazil, India, Japan And The Eu Meet In London And . . . (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Nov 06, 2005)
The countries look eye-to-eye trying to stop a trade storm that can devastate the whole world.
- Stark Choices Stare Nations At The Wto (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2005)
World trade negotiators face stark choices next week with years of haggling over a hoped-for shake up in global rules to boost economies and give a better deal for poor states riding on the outcome.
- Trade Begins In The Neighbourhood (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 04, 2005)
It is time India went with tariff concessions to its neighbours and concluded a sort of a regional investment agreement within SAARC to facilitate enhanced investment flows.
- The Wto Process, Starring India (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
This column has been at the forefront in critiquing the lack of coherent domestic framework of macroeconomic policies for a profitable agriculture and the consequences in declining growth rates and falling investments.
- Can Garlic Heal Your Pain? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2005)
It’s not good news for users of echinacea, black cohosh, and freeze-dried tissue from the New Zealand green-lipped mussel.
- Education And Gats — What India Has To Offer (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Nov 01, 2005)
India's offer to WTO members in the area of higher education refers to the position taken by it on the limitations on market access under four modes. The problem, however, is not with GATS, since it is India that decides what to offer or not in terms.....
- Sanary Sur Mer (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 01, 2005)
The port of Toulon nestles in a corner between Côte d’Azur and the peninsula of St Man-drier. It is not a very attractive city. But just across the peninsula to the west is a charming little port called Sanary sur Mer. Its promenade is like many . . .
- Why America Loves Manmohan (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Nov 01, 2005)
US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns says that India and US both stand to gain by "knitting together our two nations in a dense web of healthy economic connections."
- France Demurs On Farm Subsidy Cuts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 01, 2005)
France, the biggest beneficiary of the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), has threatened to veto the 25-member grouping's latest proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that is regarded as critical for the success . . . .
- Safta & The Dhaka Summit (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Nov 01, 2005)
I am writing this article in New Delhi. The purpose of the column is to bring to the attention of the officials preparing for the Dhaka summit of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) some of the apparent shortcomings in both . . .
- Relatively A Greater Experience (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 30, 2005)
There is a reason he preferred philosophy to politics, Jameel Qadiri describes a genius called Einstein and sums up a lecture series delivered by Prof. Naresh Dadich on physics at the University of Kashmir
- India Seeks Improved Offers On Agri Before Hong Kong Meet (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2005)
Critical of the slow progress in WTO negotiations, India Thursday blamed developed countries for dragging their feet over eliminating farm subsidies in a time bound manner and sought improved offers from the US and EU for a successful outcome at the Hong
- Advantage, Ftas (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Oct 29, 2005)
The mid-1990s witnessed a renewed interest in regional trade agreements (RTAs).
- Opening The Gates Wider (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 29, 2005)
Earlier this month, after attending a strategy session chaired by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on the negotiating guidelines at the ongoing WTO talks, the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, said India would not open its markets for subsidised....
- A Difficult Issue At The Wto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 29, 2005)
With the sixth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation to be held in Hong Kong less than two months away, there is an air of urgency among the member-states to arrive at a reasonable agreement that could be further negotiated upon and, ....
- Left Returns To Coordination Committee Meeting With Upa (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Oct 28, 2005)
Do not repeat mistake on Iran, says note to Government
- Don't Repeat Mistake On Iran, Left Tells Government (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Oct 28, 2005)
Left returns to coordination committee meeting, opposes FDI in retail sector
- Better Your Farm Sops Offers: India To Us, Eu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2005)
The developing countries, including India, have also asked the European Union and the US to make further deeper cuts in their farm subsidies proposals they have currently submitted.
- Russia Offers Help To Lift Nuclear Curbs On India (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Oct 28, 2005)
President Vladimir Putin pledged Russia's support for India to get international restrictions on civilian nuclear technology transfers lifted.
- Exit Agriculture, Enter Services (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 28, 2005)
With limited opportunities in agriculture, the country must focus on areas where demand is not limited — the services sector appears to be the best bet.
- India, Russia To Boost Energy, It Cooperation (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Oct 27, 2005)
India to invest beyond $3 b in Sakhalin-I oil project
- Bangalore Reels Under Rain (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2005)
Complaints rained in from all parts and the City came to a virtual standstill. Around 100 families were shifted to BMP’s relief shelters.
- Nato’S Unusual, Quick Response (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2005)
Two weeks after the devastating earthquake which hit Pakistan’s northern areas, European governments and relief agencies are working around the clock to deliver urgently-needed relief supplies to the quake-hit areas.
- Indian Prime Minister To Roll Out Eco-Package To Pakistan As India . . . (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2005)
Mines were being removed along Uri, Poonch and Tangdhar sectors where three quake relief camps are set up.
- Making Farms Competitive (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 23, 2005)
Going by the trends of agricultural exports and imports since 1991, it would appear that Indian economic reforms led to a perceptible spurt in exports but the advent of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 blunted this trend and encouraged agro-impo
- Farm Talks Flounder (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2005)
By pressuring the Government to evolve a national consensus before making any commitment at the Hong Kong Ministerial scheduled for December, the alliance partners may have done the farm sector a big favour.
- Phantom Of The Opera (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 22, 2005)
Writing in the October 9 issue of People’s Democracy, CPI(M) politburo member Anil Biswas claimed, ‘‘The spectre of communism appears to be yet haunting the ruling classes of Europe ... and their lackeys in the corporate media.’’
- No Further Farm Tariff Cuts, Insists India (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 21, 2005)
India, took on a tough posture on Thursday, making it clear it would not settle for a deal unfavourable to its (India’s) farmers, at the WTO talks in Geneva.
- India's Communists (Left Parties) Urge Government To Abstain In Iaea Vote On Iran (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 21, 2005)
India's Left parties on Thursday [20 October] asked the government to abstain from a possible voting on Iran's nuclear programme at the IAEA's [International Atomic Energy Agency] meeting in November to express solidarity with Tehran's sovereignty.
- Bill To Check Food Contaminants (Tribune, J. George, Oct 21, 2005)
The official approval to release the report of toxic heavy metal contamination by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PCCB) is timely. A legislative remedy in the form of an integrated food law Bill is rumoured.
- Balancing Act In Geneva (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 20, 2005)
The prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh's suggestion that the country's negotiators in Geneva — working on a draft declaration acceptable to all parties for the December Hong Kong ministerial of the World Trade Organisation — should adopt a balanced approach
- Aim For $100 B, Exporters Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Kamal Nath asks exporters to identify and tap unexplored markets
- Third-Party Certifying Ngos — A Blow To Wto's Hong Kong Ministerial? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 19, 2005)
The rich nations appear to have shifted serious business from the WTO ministerial negotiating table to a forum of third-party certifying NGOs. The Singapore agenda is back even before headway is made in the matter of respecting the national . . .
- Movement Of Capital And Labour (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 18, 2005)
While the rich countries are all for the free movement of capital, they block the free movement of labour
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 18, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare, instead, to tailor all its policy initiatives
- Left Seeks White Paper On Wto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Says outcome will have far-reaching adverse consequences
Refers to previous experiences
Says it will have adverse consequences on country's economy and polity, especially the working class and peasantry
- Banks Must Re-Invent Sme Financing (Business Line, P. P. Pathrose, Oct 18, 2005)
Small and medium enterprises are the engines of growth in an economy. But as the sector is characterised by information asymmetries and high processing costs, banks are reluctant to lend to SMEs.
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare,
- Wto: The Countdown To Hong Kong (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 17, 2005)
The developing countries — which have a strong stake in the continued healthy functioning of the WTO — are placed in a tight corner in that they will have to make major compromises if they want the Hong Kong ministerial to succeed and, in the process, ...
- Streamline Immigration Policies, Chidambaram Tells G-20 Meet (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 17, 2005)
Nations should have a coordinated approach
- Keep Food Out Of Wto: Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
'Impose Quantitative Restrictions to prevent dumping of cheap and subsidised goods'
- How Growers Can Earn More (Tribune, P.S. Rangi, Oct 16, 2005)
The farm technology introduced in Punjab in the mid-1960s has resulted in a manifold increase in agricultural production, particularly in the case of wheat and rice.
- Agriculture And Intercultural Dialogue (Daily Excelsior, Prof. B. L. Kaul, Oct 16, 2005)
The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
- India Paper For Wto Talks (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2005)
An issue paper prepared by India has been accepted as the basis for the ongoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on services.
- India Asserts Need For Developing Countries To Safeguard Farmers Livelihood And Food Security Concerns (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Oct 15, 2005)
India on Thursday asserted that developing countries should have the right to select its own ''Special farm Products'' on which protection could be continued to safeguard farmers livelihood and food security concerns.
- Left Out Of Lurch (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2005)
IT would be premature to cheer the return of the Left parties to the coordination committee of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
- Knowledge Industry By Bharat Jhunjhunwala (Statesman, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 14, 2005)
The Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, has led a valiant and commendable drive to get India to patent her traditional knowledge and acquire patents for her many innovations.
- Kashmir – A Conference Center (Greater Kashmir, MEHRAJU DIN BHAT, Oct 14, 2005)
Let’s make Kashmir a conference center and see how it helps in boosting our local economy, suggests
MEHRAJU DIN BHAT
- G-20 Nations Pick Holes In Us Farm Sops Gesture (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 14, 2005)
Mr Kamal Nath said G-20 has taken abudant measures to safeguard the interests of the farmers in developing countries against imports and trade distortions.
- India Has Rejected The Latest Us And Eu Proposals On Farm Tariff Reduction (India Daily, Surinder Singh, Oct 14, 2005)
Articulating developing countries'' stand, India has rejected the latest US and EU proposals on farm tariff reduction, forcing them to give up their proposals recently made to break the impasse in the WTO talks.
- G-20 Proposal To Counter Eu - Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 14, 2005)
The G-20 developing countries today submitted before the WTO, a counter proposal on agriculture that India described as "true middle ground" between the two extreme offers of EU and US.
- Export Incentives (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 13, 2005)
An inter-ministerial committee has been set up to review and unify all export incentive schemes.
- Taxation And Evasion (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Oct 13, 2005)
The World Bank has always been pressing Pakistan to increase its revenues so that it does not have to depend on large long- term loans from international lenders. In the earlier days when the GDP of Pakistan was low, the tax ratio was low to the GDP.
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