The wholesale price-based inflation continued to remain in the negative zone for the fourth straight month at 0.58 per cent even as the prices of vegetables and other food items were costlier. WPI in...

Bhutan announced a nationwide, indefinite lockdown from Tuesday to battle the spread of Covid-19 in the country, the decision — the first in the kingdom since the pandemic broke out — pres...

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India and the UK are committed to a free trade agreement (FTA) and will kick off that process with “Early Harvest Agreements” as a start, the Indian government said following the first-eve...

A train loaded with soaps, shampoo, shaving kit and textile fabric left Calcutta for Bangladesh via the Petrapole-Benapole border on Friday afternoon, the first container train through the busiest cor...

Entities from countries with whom India shares a land border can bid for the government’s procurement projects only after they are registered with a “competent authority” — the...

When Bajirao Thengde voiced his fears about going to work after dozens of colleagues fell sick with coronavirus, his boss at a motorbike factory in Maharashtra said he should “learn to live with...

India and the US are closing in on a trade deal after almost two years of negotiations. Commerce minister Piyush Goyal said the two countries should look at a preferential trade pact covering 50 to 1...

India will need to walk a tightrope as it balances its Atmanirbhar Bharat agenda with talks on free-trade agreements with the European Union, Britain and the US amid a severe global economic slowdown....

The government along with industry is working on evaluating import substitution measures across 12 sectors, ranging from electronics to leather, footwear and furniture. A combination of measures, inc...