RCEP is a mega free trade agreement among 10 ASEAN countries and their six trading partners - Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand

India's dairy, steel, textile, MSME and e-commerce companies, along with advocacy groups pushing for data sovereignty, want the government to reject RCEP drafts

With only 23 GW of renewable power capacity left to bid, India is confident that the target of installing 175 GW of renewable power capacity will be met

RCEP is a mega free trade agreement of 10 ASEAN countries with their six FTA partners, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand

In the recent round of negotiations for RCEP, India pushed to include the Automatic Trigger Safeguard Mechanism, or ATSM, which will automatically increase levies once imports cross a given threshold

The junior minister in the Ministry of External Affairs, V. Muraleedharan has spoken to several supplier countries to ensure additional supplies while Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale has kept the window open for possible ramp-up of imports from Iran

The RCEP, which has ASEAN countries along with China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, is working on a mega free trade agreement

Rough estimates peg the potential at 12,455 MW in Khambat & Kutch regions and large backwaters

Oil prices will stay moderate, around $60 a barrel, in the next few quarters and OPEC's further \"possible\" cuts in oil supply will not create an upward pressure on prices, according to International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol

In 2018-19, India had trade deficit with 11 out of 20 RCEP countries. In 2017-18, it had a trade deficit of $104 billion with all RCEP countries; more than half of this ($57.86 trillion) was with China

The meeting would discuss job creation, equitable growth and the Sangh's alternative development model. It will also focus on pushing for better coordination among affiliates

The state governments are finding it difficult to cope with dipping prices in renewable energy and locking PPA for two decades

Tata Power is one of the most prestigious groups in India, and if you look at our partners around the world, they are of the same league. The success of the partnership is important for us, said Andres Gluski, President and CEO of AES Corporation

On the sidelines of the farewell dinner for the then outgoing President, Pranab Mukherjee on July 22, 2017-- Arun Jaitley tipped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar about the plan of his then ally Lalu Prasad to break Nitish's party Janata Dal (United) and possibly engineer his ouster.

Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A might excite investors, but for real investments to come in, Jammu and Kashmir regions will need major infrastructure buildup

It has been a year since a safeguard duty was imposed on imported solar panels, but the move has not helped

It is arguments and conviction that make an Opposition stronger, not numbers. Hopefully, the Opposition will learn a lesson and brace itself for the winter session of Parliament.

In a welcome change, the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha appears to be the most productive in the last two decades

Under Article 370, the laws passed by Parliament had to be ratified by the Jammu and Kashmir assembly to be made laws in the state. This caused not only delays, but mismatch too

Even if the government decides to go ahead and issue sovereign bonds in foreign currency, its rising borrowings will continue to put pressure on liquidity in the domestic market