It remains to be seen if the National Food Processing Policy will help reduce wastage of perishables and improve the supply situation.
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Looking East
While political differences may take a while to be ironed out, growing business collaborations between India and China are scripting a mutually benefiting story. China has shown keen interest to finance India´s infrastructure development
Design Expert
Dr S Majumdar is the Chief Sustainability Officer for the JSW Group, and is responsible for the design, development and implementation of a sustainability framework that enhances global competitiveness.
Metro Rail: Glamour meets utility
A round 2.5 million passengers use the Delhi Metro everyday that has an operational distance of 190 km with an aim to touch 400 km by 2021. "Despite the metro expanding across cities, the pace of metro expansion is inadequate
Transparent moves
In a bid to try and get to the root cause of the delays that were stalling the implementation of projects in the country, the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) under its Chairman Anil Swarup has initiated a process to digitise the whole procedure through which clearances happen. "Our job at the PMG will get reduced as then we will know why the delays are happening and the clogging will not happen.
Highway soon to link India, Myanmar, Thailand
For smoother and faster movement of goods between India, Myanmar and Thailand a proposed highway is expected to be opened soon for traffic, the Union Government has announced. The Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said adding that the Indian government is presently working with the governments of Myanmar and Thailand.
44% CEOs affirm increase in domestic investment: CII survey
In a survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), over 44 per cent of the CEOs affirmed an increase in their domestic investment during the current financial year. 37 per cent of respondents in the survey did not see a decline in their investment level in the current year.While 50 per cent did not predict any change in their foreign investment, 37 per cent saw it increasing during the current financial year. The survey was cond
CII survey calls for reforms to stem rupee weakness
A survey conducted by industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) highlights the importance of economic reforms in arresting the depreciation of rupee against dollar.Some of the key reforms mentioned by the participants of the survey are relaxing the sectoral cap on foreign direct investment (FDI), controlling fuel and fertiliser subsidies, removing hurdles to infrastructure proje
CCI chief warns of cascading effect from gas price hike
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), S Gopalakrishnan said the government’s move to almost double gas prices with effect from April 2014 will have a “cascading effect” on power tariffs. He said this while addressing a press conference. He disfavoured the dollar pricing of domestically produced natural gas by saying the following, “I do not believe that the price of gas (produced in India) ought to be se
CII chief wants RBI to work in tandem with govt to support growth
The newly elected President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Kris Gopalakrishnan said the RBI must work in tandem with the government to boost economic growth. He said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) must reduce interest rates by at least 100 bps in 2013-14. Steps like early implementation of GST (Goods and Serv



