The US Congress approves a bill to fund healthcare for emergency workers involved in rescue and clean-up efforts during the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.

The US extended the fee hike on H1B and L1 visas used by Indian professionals working in America and impose an additional two per cent fee on Indian exports.

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Had J.R.D. been alive - he died two years after Manmohan Singh unleashed reform - his heart would have leapt at today's per capita income of Rs 44,345. But, were the 1991 balance of payments crisis and the reform Budget truly serendipitous? Palaniappan Chidambaram, then a Congress MP, told me in April 1993 that the change was not as miraculous as it seemed.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao assures India Inc that China is ready to open its markets to bring down India's soaring trade deficit with its Asian neighbour.

India will be seeking greater market access for its manufactured goods in China to help bring down the huge trade deficit with its fastgrowing Asian neighbour.

Local retailers in Alwar, Rajasthan, are fighting Big Retail and have lessons for their kirana brethren elsewhere.

Indian banks stand tall in a world still recovering from a global credit crisis, but now may also be the time to push the envelope.

In a big boost to the burgeoning Indo-Israel bilateral trade, the two countries are likely to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next year.

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Meeting on the sidelines of the fifth G-20 Summit, Singh and Harper also discussed entire gamut of bilateral ties which have seen a significant development in the past years.

Despite opening on a handsome note, gaining 60 points, the 30-share BSE benchmark plummeted 286.62 points, or 1.37 per cent, to settle the day at 20,589.09.

Minister of State for IT and Telecom Sachin Pilot said the issue of visa fees hike and outsourcing has already been taken up between the two countries at the highest levels.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pushes for early completion of all formalities for implementing the India-ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement.

Concerns over job losses caused by outsourcing could cloud long-term business plans for the US economy.

The two countries have set a trade target of $15 billion by 2015 and expressed confidence that the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement would help achieve it.

Amid growing voice against certain free trade policies in the US, India on Friday asked G-20 nations to resist protectionism as it would retard the process of recovery.

The visit of a galaxy of heads of states to India is an opportunity for the UPA government to set the agenda on issues of national and global importance, argues Arvind Panagariya.

The used car market in India is growing faster than the new car market and a clutch of companies is gearing up to take advantage of it.