Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs February 16 announced easing VISA issuance procedure for Indian business travellers during “India-Austria Economic Forum” jointly organised by FICCI and Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) in New Delhi…
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Industrial corridors with top class infrastructure to shape India’s future
As the Make In India Week gathered momentum, investors, business persons and others listened as government officials laid threadbare the plans for India’s upcoming smart cities and industrial corridors. At a seminar on ‘Industrial Corridors: Drivers for India’s Economic Growth’, jointly organised…
Indian, Israeli firms join hands for Defence
About 25 Indian and 100 Israeli firms will come together later this month for a unique business seminar on defence and security in Israel. The seminar, organised jointly by SIBAT, the Israeli Defence Ministry, the International Defence Cooperation Directorate and FICCI will take place on February…
Scope for Indian companies to invest in Africa: Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh
Two-day ‘India-Africa Agribusiness Forum’ gets under way Radha Mohan Singh, Minister for Agriculture, Government of India, suggested here today that Indian companies desirous of investing in Africa could join hands with African companies for the production of pulses and vegetable oils, the supply…
Rs 175 crore Govt. grant for enhancement of global competitiveness of Capital Goods Sector
The Government has approved five projects and granted Rs 175 crore for enhancement of global competitiveness of Indian Capital Goods Sector. Under the first project 500 acres of land has been earmarked for Integrated Machine Tools Park in Tumkur in which space will be reserved for number of MSMEs…
Technotex to be held in April in Mumbai
Technotex 2016,India’s premier exhibition on technical textiles, is to be held in Mumbai from April 21-23 in a bid to make India a global manufacturing hub for technical textiles. Organised by the union government in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICC…
DRDO’S patent technology now with Pune Start-Up firm
In the first ever initiative of its kind, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has provided its patented Copper-Titanium (CuTi) alloy technology for commercial exploitation to a start-up company. The agreement between DRDO and Pahwa Metal Tech Pvt Ltd was signed on the sidelines o…
Indo-French business leaders engage to strengthen partnerships
India and France have shared a long and common history and friendship, which has developed into a strategic partnership and now France is the third largest investor in India, said Michel Sapin, Minister for Finance and Public Accounts, Government of France, at an interactive business session orga…
Exclusive | Key to SME growth is ease of doing business | A Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI
Big business chambers have traditionally focused on serving interests of big business. But at India’s leading apex chamber, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the small enterprises are no less important given their mammoth contribution to the national income. Cham…
Budget 2016 should facilitate business friendly Tax Admin | Dr A. Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI
In a candid conversation with SMEpost.com Editor K R Sudhaman, FICCI Secretary General Dr A. Didar Singh expressed that the forthcoming budget should strive to create an eco system wherein tax administration is more structured and conducive to business. This actually impacts SMEs more than anybod…