Tag: India

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 02:38 UTC

  Indian minister visits Uruguay and Argentina to promote trade with Mercosur

  

  A top level Indian business delegation headed by Minister of state for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia is travelling to Argentina and Uruguay to boost ties with Mercosur, according to the Indo-Asian news agency.

• Saturday, April 16th 2011 - 00:09 UTC

  China’s trade with BRICS associates surged 45.8% in the first quarter

  

  China's top customs authority announced Friday that trade with the other four BRICS nations surged by 45.8% to reach 59.9 billion US dollars in the first quarter of this year.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 19:47 UTC

  Argentine soy-oil industry diversifies markets following China’s ban

  

  China is far from normalizing soy-oil purchases in Argentina since it has not placed new orders according to the Argentina Cooking Oil Industry Chamber, CIARA. However the industry has managed to diversify markets.

• Friday, April 8th 2011 - 20:04 UTC

  Deadly bacteria named after New Delhi triggers controversy with India

  

  International health journal Lancet on Friday accused the Indian government of being in denial over the issue of presence of drug-resistant bacteria NDM-1 in the public water system of Delhi and argued that the debate over the naming of the bug should not detract one from the health implications of the findings.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  India’s population hits 1.21 billion in 2011; female foeticide remains high

  

  India's population has grown by 181 million people over the past decade to 1.21bn, according to the 2011 census. More people now live in India than in the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined.

• Monday, March 14th 2011 - 06:36 UTC

  India becomes world’s top weapons importer; US largest exporter, says SIPRI

  

  India replaced China as the world’s top weapons importer, according to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, as it aims to modernize its armed forces and project power through the region.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Global construction to outpace GDP growth in next 10 years with China and India leading

  

  Global construction will outpace GDP growth over the next 10 years, with China and India accounting for 38% of the 4.8 trillion US dollars increase in output by 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said this week.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 05:59 UTC

  Geithner argues growth in China, India, Brazil are boosting US exports

  

  Rapid growth of emerging economies like China, India and Brazil is boosting the American exports, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said.

• Sunday, February 27th 2011 - 23:10 UTC

  India interested in reaching out to Latin America and Mercosur

  

  India is reaching out to emerging markets and Latin America, and more precisely Mercosur is a strategic priority, said India’s Minister for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India-Uruguay business conference that hosted a large Uruguayan business delegation led by the country’s Vice-President, Danilo Astori.

• Friday, February 25th 2011 - 01:04 UTC

  India pledges greater economic cooperation and trade with Uruguay

  

  India pledged on Thursday greater economic cooperation with Uruguay in sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, textiles, automobiles, machineries and IT. In 2009-10, bilateral trade stood at 64.3 million US dollars.