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Report
says US has okayed P-3 Orion sale to India
New Delhi: Washington has decided to sell 30 P-3
Orion maritime surveillance aircraft to New Delhi. The
deal was signed recently and the requisite notification
to the Congress is awaited.
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Make
good use of GATS provisions: WTO official
New Delhi: In the on-going negotiations on services
at the World Trade Organisation, India should take advantage
of the provisions in the General Agreement on Trade in
Services which allow flexibility to developing countries,
and formulate requests and offers accordingly.
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ComMin
seeks Spl policy to Woo FDI in IT, to ramp up services
exports
New Delhi: The commerce ministry, which is framing
a medium-term export strategy for services, has called
for major policy initiatives to attract foreign direct
investment in the the software sector through joint ventures
and invited suggestions from trade and industry, including
exporters.
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Fernandes
Oman visit from tomorrow
New Delhi: Defence minister George Fernandes is
leaving on a two-day visit to Oman on Saturday. According
to sources in the Oman embassy here, Mr Fenandes is
visiting the country on an invitation extended to him
by his Omanian counterpart Sayid Badar-bin-Saud-al-Busaidi
who visited India earlier this year.
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Naik
remains unnerved; insists IPO route better than strategic
sale
New Delhi: Unperturbed by the heat generated on
disinvestment in the oil sector after Prime Minister AB
Vajpayees remarks on Wednesday, petroleum minister Ram
Naik has maintained that the best way to dilute governments
equity in the PSUs is through the public offer route.
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Ministry
looks for succour from plan panel
New Delhi: The ministry of disinvestment is looking
forward to help from the unlikeliest of quarters, the
Planning Commission, once a bastion of socialism in the
country.
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BJP
backs Shourie, Naik at one go
New Delhi: Joining issue on the raging disinvestment
debate, Bhartiya Janata Party president Venkaih Naidu
has asked Union cabinet ministers not to air their differences
related to disinvestment publicly.
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