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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicFDI

Topic: FDI

Rahul Gandhi must think before he speaks, else it could be politically fatal for Congress

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Modi cabinet allows 100% FDI in coal mining, 26% in online news media

Cabinet also decides to relax the current FDI norms for single-brand retail and ease sourcing norms, apart from clearing a proposal for 75 new medical colleges.

Modi needs more than tax breaks to make India an investment hub

India lags behind ASEAN peers in winning over investors. Part of the reason is it’s harder to open and run a business in India than in Southeast Asia.

Budget 2019 will boost growth only if Modi govt is friendly towards business and profits

Nirmala Sitharaman’s push to get corporate India to invest more will depend on whether the budget inspires enough confidence.

Growth stagnant, Sitharaman promises to ease FDI norms but markets don’t buy it just yet

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says government intent on relaxing the cap on FDI in aviation, media, animation and insurance sectors.

Industrialisation only hope to eliminate poverty in Africa

African development is key to a stable world. For if it remains underdeveloped, Africa, with its exploding impoverished population, will fall prey to climate disasters and wars.

India misses out on investment boom due to election uncertainty

Investors have chosen to remain on sidelines due to global headwinds & political uncertainty spawned by upcoming elections.

ED begins probe against Amazon, Flipkart for ‘FDI norms violation’

ED probe comes after NGO filed PIL alleging Flipkart, Amazon circumvented FDI norms by routing popular products through multiple entities.

Trade wars & cash crunch threaten to muzzle India’s animal spirits

Indicators compiled by Bloomberg suggest economic growth may moderate in coming months from 8 percent-plus pace in June quarter.

Modi govt is now considering tapping overseas Indians to help lift the falling rupee

RBI has been selling dollars to redeem the rupee's value, but this has led to a drop in foreign exchange reserves by $26 billion.

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.