India News

Related Travel Information

India has refining capacity of additional 30 mt: Shell Global

India has refining capacity of additional 30 mt: Shell Global SHELL Global, which was commissioned to do a detailed feasibility study on making India an investment destination for refiners, in particular export-oriented units, has suggested that India has the refining capacity of 30 million tonnes over and above the existing and planned projects. Shell Global has also proposed that any scope of refinery should be linked to petrochemical production facility, which could be sold in India. Further, the refinery and petrochemical projects would require tax and fiscal concessions, sources said. Asked, since these would be export-oriented units, what kind of concessions

India priority 1 for global retail: Study

India priority 1 for global retail: Study India ranks first, ahead of Russia, in terms of emerging markets potential in retail and is deemed a priority 1 market for international retail, a newly-released Ernst & Young report on the retail sector said. The retail sector in India is highly fragmented and organised retail in the country is at a very nascent stage. Of the 12 million retail outlets, more than 80% are run by small family businesses which use only household labour. China and Brazil, took 10-15 years to raise the share of their organized retail sectors from 5% to 20%

The Naked Investor: Closer look at India as investment possibility

The Naked Investor: Closer look at India as investment possibility The question I am most frequently asked is where I would recommend investors put their hard earned cash. Which begs, of course, the eternal question not of what has gone before, but of what will happen in the future. Oh to have such vision. Failing which, all that can be done is to look at the state of a market and gauge what indicators of growth there are to support an investment decision. We have, sadly, in recent times seen many jobs vanishing overseas to eastern countries. So what is going on in reality? I thought

Indias economy to grow by 8%: study

Indias economy to grow by 8%: study Indias economic growth rate is expected to stand at 8 percent in the 2006-07 fiscal year, down from 8.4 percent in last fiscal, an industrial report said Monday. The estimation was made based on high international oil price and fear of high inflation, said the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in its latest State of the Economy (SOE) report published here Monday. Oil price hike and fear of high inflation coupled with increasing interest rates are expected to affect the performance of manufacturing and services sectors adversely and this is expected to bring down

India, China to resolve boundary dispute: PM

India, China to resolve boundary dispute: PM The special representatives appointed by India and China to resolve border disputes are looking at all aspects of the issue, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, informed the Rajya Sabha today. “The two representatives appointed by the Prime Ministers of India and China are going through various stages,” the Prime Minister said, intervening during Question Hour. In the first stage, a broad principle guidelines on the delineation process had been signed during the Chinese premier’s visit to India. The second stage was to work out a framework agreement for actual delineation and marking