Suri: India-China trade at $20 b in 6 years
New Delhi: Addressing a meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, India's Ambassador to China, Nalin Suri said that India's trade with China touched $1.87 billion during the first two months of this fiscal and could achieve $20 billion by 2010. The Ambassador said that there were huge opportunities in the Chinese market, which the Indian industry must tap.
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IIM-A to initiate talks with HRD Ministry
Ahmedabad: The IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) society has unanimously resolved to initiate a dialogue with the Human Resources Development Ministry at the earliest. IIM-A Board Chairman, and Infosys chief, N R Narayan Murthy, also attended the meeting, and talked about creating a positive atmosphere for discussions.

The IIM-A society directed its board of directors to develop a scholarship grant programme in response to the ministry's arguments that the IIM fee structure was a deterrent for economically backward students.Murthy said that the society had empowered the board to take legal action in the fee-cut case, but only as a last resort if talks with the Centre failed.
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India to host ITCB meet
New Delhi: New Delhi will host the annual session of the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB), an intergovernmental organisation comprising exporters from developing countries.The three-day event, beginning on April 5 here, is dedicated to securing the elimination of discriminatory restrictions and protectionism directed against its members' exports.

ITCB currently has 25 permanent members, including India, China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mexico, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Brazil.The New Delhi session assumes significance as there are just eight months left for the advent of the quota-free regime beginning on January 1, 2005. The last two meetings of the ITCB were held in Cairo in 2003 and Vietnam in 2002.
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