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Kuwait bans Indian poultry products

The Dollar Business Bureau Following the outbreak of bird flu in Tripura on the 4th of January, Kuwait had imposed a ban on poultry product imports from India. In Oct the Gulf nations’ PAAFR department (Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources) had agreed to lift the ban on importing of live poultry, one-year old chicks of the egg laying hens and flesh hens from India. This decision by the Middle East could have a serious impact on India’s poultry exports as India mainly exports poultry to Middle East countries. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply said that it is important to share this information so that the same can be conveyed to the importing countries to ...

Betting on an India-Belarus future of co-operation

Source: PIB, Government of India. India's President, Pranab Mukherjee (Right) meeting the Prime Minister of Belarus, Andrei Kobyakov, in Minsk, Belarus on June 03, 2015. Source: PIB, Government of India   The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee addressed a Belarus - India Business Forum organized by the Belarus Chamber of Commerce and Industry and FICCI-CII in Minsk on Friday.  Addressing the gathering of eminent business representatives from India and Belarus, the President said trade, investment and economic cooperation form one of the most important facets of contemporary India-Belarus relations. As we seek to elevate our bilateral relationship, it is our business communities that possess the maximum potential to transform and energize these ties. The President said with a view to further energizing ...