Washington: The bilateral trade between India and America has the potential to double and reach $280 billion in the next five years, India’s top diplomat in the US has said, amidst intense negotiations between the two countries to resolve their trade differences. In March, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced that the US will terminate India’s designation as beneficiary developing country under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme. India imposed retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products including almonds and apples from 5 June, after the Trump administration revoked its preferential trade privileges. Trade tensions between India and the US…
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The Delhi Police have arrested three people who allegedly duped Bollywood actress Isha Sharvani by pretending to be Australian Tax officers, officials said today.
The Centre has taken policy decisions to ensure early operationalisation of coal mines but their allottees should also go the extra mile along with the government to start the mines, a top official said.
Nestaway Technologies, which is into rental property management, announced its foray into the co-living business and said it plans to invest $10 million (about Rs 70 crore) this fiscal to reach 50,000 beds.
“Earlier, we didn’t have the barracks and other amenities for women personnel… But, we are now in a position to accommodate them and have already started the process of calling for women operators,” Director General of NDRF, S N Pradhan, said.
Karnataka Congress MLA Laxmi Hebbalkar on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here in connection with the money laundering case against her senior party colleague D K Shivakumar, officials said. They said the woman MLA, who represents Belagavi (Rural), arrived at the agency’s officer here in Khan Market around 11 am.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru, becoming the first defence minister to fly in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA). After the sortie which lasted for around 30 minutes, the defence minister said he chose the aircraft because it was built indigenously and that the experience of flying in the aircraft was thrilling.
Five Tamilnadu fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan Navy on charges of fishing in the island nation waters and their boat impounded on Wednesday, a fisheries department official said.
Claiming victory after Union Home Minister Amit Shah clarified he never pitched for imposition of Hindi, DMK on Wednesday put off its proposed 20 September protest over the issue. Citing Shah’s assertion that he has never asked for imposition of Hindi anywhere in the country, DMK President M K Stalin said the state-wide protest demonstrations in Tamilnadu has been “postponed temporarily”.