India shall reform economic policy to attract FDI
The Dollar Business Bureau The Indian Government needs to bring about reforms in its economic policy, to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) needed to build infrastructure, quoted Nisha Desai Biswal. There is a serious need for the government to modernise and reform its economic governance in order to improve its ease of doing business, increase trade activity and attract the required FDI, said Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia in the US Department of State. Nisha Desai was addressing the 33rd Annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture at the University of California in San Diego. Suggesting various measures to attract more FDI into the country, she said that India needs to update its intellectual property regime to ...
US senators vow to strengthen India-US ties
Source: PTI Top American senators have vowed to strengthen India-US strategic and trade relationships, saying the ties between the two countries have become strong dramatically in a "very dangerous and ever-changing world." At a reception hosted for the new Indian Ambassador to the US, Arun K Singh, senators John Cornyn (Republican) and Mark Warner (Democrat) said the two democracies share common values and ideals and it is time that they make the best use of it in the convergence of strategic and economic field. Cornyn and Warner are co-Chairs of the Senate India Caucus -- the only country-specific caucus in the US Senate. It was founded in 2004 by Senator John Cornyn and the then New York senator and ex-secretary of ...
