Interestingly, even as India has agreed to the 'services' agreement, it has not yet yielded to the demands in the 'e-commerce' chapter that is still being negotiated by participant countries

Ever since RCEP negotiations started six years ago, experts from participating countries have had 28 rounds of negotiations, the last being at Da Nang, Vietnam, from September 19 - 27

Citing Nielsen's E-Analytics data, Amazon had said in a release that it \"witnessed the highest share of transacting customers & purchases across all online shopping platforms in the first 5 days of the Great Indian Festival period\", which concluded on October 4.

The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) met Goyal on Wednesday to show him evidence pertaining to 'deep discounting and predatory pricing' by Amazon India and Flipkart during their festive sales.

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

Since a partial stake sale in the national carrier failed to garner interest last year, the government now plans to sell its entire stake. The proposal is awaiting clearance from a ministerial panel currently.

An analysis of the impact of demonetisation - published by renowned economists in a working paper brought out by a US institution National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - shows that in modern India cash continues to serve an essential role in facilitating economic activities.

The report says both the RBI and the Centre maintained secrecy prior to the policy's announcement and that the RBI \"did not print and distribute a large quantity of new notes before the announcement\", which led to an immediate shortage of cash

The Bangladeshi prime minister said that India's sudden decision to stop onion exports has lead to a bit of difficulty for her countrymen

The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a trade agreement being negotiated between the 10-country group of ASEAN and its existing FTA partners China, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and India

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, commenting on US' stand on Huawei, said that the Chinese firm's technology was far superior than rivals Ericsson and Nokia's. He was responding to a question on if the US' push to not pick 5G spectrum from China was unfair on India, considering the European counterparts' tech was costlier. Watch the video for more.

Premji also said that the IT services industry has changed dramatically over the last 20 years from being enterprise-focussed to customer-focussed

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that India's stand on the issue of high tariffs on US products and regulations concerning e-commerce companies was very clear and that the \"spirit of Indian law\" was to \"protect small retailers\".Watch the video here.