India Coronavirus Lockdown News Updates: Respective governments of Delhi and Maharashtra have allowed establishments that sell essential items to function 24X7, but within the boundaries of social distancing

The exemption would also include distribution and sales channels servicing the food and beverages market, food delivery services and other related activities

Delivery boys will be able to flash identity cards issued by their firms such as Flipkart, Big Basket or Grofers, among others, as access pass through nationwide lockdown

Announcement regarding 100 per cent FDI for insurance subsidiaries was made by Union Finance Minister Niramala Sitahraman in her Budget speech last year; notably, FDI for insurance companies is still capped at 49 per cent

Civil society groups want the contents of the MoU to be made public before its finalisation to ensure that India resists US demands to influence the implementation of India's IP legislations

The purpose of the discussion is to suggest ways to make Indian IP laws, the laws that govern patents, copyrights and design rights etc, contemporary by drawing up a list of needed amendments

Allowing 100 per cent FDI in Air India would allow NRIs to invest up to 100 per cent. Currently, they can acquire only 49 per cent in the national carrier

The government on Saturday proposed a new levy of 1% TDS (tax deducted at source) on e-commerce transactions, a move that could increase burden on sellers on such platforms

E-commerce policy latest: The Department of Promotion for Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is expected to make the sale of counterfeit products impossible through an upcoming policy. Here's for more

Under PM Modi's Startup India Scheme, eligible companies can get recognised as startups by DPIIT to access a host of tax benefits, easier compliance, IPR fast-tracking and other benefits

Budget 2020: The proposed liberalisation of the insurance sector, ease of restrictions on FDI by JVs/WOS of Indian parties and other measures taken for liberalising FDI are expected to spur investments and raise investor sentiment

Targeting the Modi government over the ongoing economic slowdown, Chidambaram said Goyal's snub \"will reverse the five successive month decline in imports and the eight successive month decline in exports\"

Satya Nadella on CAA: Microsoft CEO said that he hopes one day that a Bangladeshi immigrant can come to India an start his own start-up

Representatives from different companies including Accenture, Adobe, Facebook, Genpact, Google, HCL, Infosys, Intel, Microsoft and TCS are expected to participate in the deliberations with DPIIT

The proposal, currently being considered by the Commerce Ministry, calls for on-boarding the Centre and states level departments through designated point of contacts.

Sectors, which attracted maximum foreign inflows during April-September 2019-20, include services computer software and hardware  telecommunications, automobile and trading

The proposed new industrial policy is aimed at promoting emerging sectors, reducing regulatory hurdles and making India a manufacturing hub

All the key economic indicators have been on a downward swing for quite some time. If this slide is not checked India may slip into recession sooner than later. In this first part of a two-part series, the article looks at what the major economic indicators are telling about the state of Indian economy

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WhatsApp invests in startups: Only start-ups that are at an early traction or scalable stage and are recognised by the DPIIT will be able to avail the ad credits