Trade
India extends $4.5 bn line of credit to Bangladesh
08 Apr 2017
During talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India committed $500 mn credit to Bangladesh military, and the two countries signed about 25 agreements in various fields, including nuclear power and defence
Trump signs 2 orders targeting `trade cheats’
01 Apr 2017
Engineering sales help India's exports rise for a sixth month in Feb
16 Mar 2017
Although merchandise exports from the country grew 17.48 per cent year-on-year to $24.49 billion last month, its imports rose at a higher rate of 21.76 per cent to $33.39 billion
Donald Trump says ‘buy American’; Ivanka buys Chinese
15 Mar 2017
Even as President Donald Trump promised to create jobs by following “two simple rules: Buy American and hire American”, huge shipments of his daughter’s line were reportedly on their way to the US from China?
India exploring trans-continental train link to Turkey
04 Mar 2017
Indian Railways is exploring the possibility of a trans-continental container train service from Dhaka to Istanbul, covering 6,000-km across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey