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The Hindu Business Line: Sharma to discuss concerns of IT, exporters with US official August 18, 2013 By Amiti Sen Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will meet US Trade Representative Michael Froman this week to discuss India’s concerns related to additional visa restrictions on IT professionals, increased cases of visa ...

Business Standard: India and the US: Navigating headwinds August 17, 2013 By Hemant Krishan Signh As prospects of meaningful economic reforms wane ahead of India's general election, India-US ties are navigating headwinds and in danger of losing the big picture. References to a "defining partnership of this century" and the "full embrace of ...

Business Standard: No Indian for WTO deputy chief post August 17, 2013 By Niyanima Basu For the first time in the last eight years, India would not have any representative for the post of deputy director general (DDG) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Geneva-based body on Saturday named four DDGs from China, Africa, the US and ...

Townhall: India's Intellectual Property Failures Demand Obama's Attention August 17, 2013 By Phil Kerpen On May 11, 2013, Indian President Pranab Mukherhee said "The future prosperity of India in the new knowledge economy will increasingly depend on its ability to generate new ideas, processes and solutions." He was right not just about ...

The Hindu Business Line: What worries foreign investors? August 16, 2013 By Manisha Jha With the rupee breaching the 62-mark in intra-day trade before ending the day at its all-time low of 61.66, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were left spooked. Facing a decline in the net worth of their investment despite the RBI’s liquidity ...

Financial Times: India Restricts Outward Investment to Bolster Rupee August 15, 2013 By Victor Mallet India has unveiled restrictions on capital outflows in new moves to bolster the rupee that were likened by one analyst to “a panic signal” and attacked by another as “desperate Band-Aids”. Shortly before Manmohan Singh, prime ...

Reuters: India Inc to policymakers: shape up, or we'll ship out September 8, 2013 By Sumeet Chatterjee and Aradhana Aravindan (Reuters) - After the rapid slide in India's rupee this year, the message from the country's corporate titans to the government is clear: shape up and fix the problems or more companies will expand their busines...

The Economic Times: Joe Biden urges India to open up to US companies July 28, 2013 MUMBAI: US Vice President Joe Biden urged India on Wednesday to improve investment conditions and remove obstacles faced by American companies which restrict trade between the world's biggest democracies. Biden, the first US vice president to visit India ...

Houston Chronicle: Protect U.S. intellectual property July 28, 2013 By Randall Popelka At a global level, protection of the U.S. economy begins with protection of corporate intellectual property. According to the U.S. Global Intellectual Property Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, intellectual property creates more than 55 million ...

Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council: India’s Intellectual Property Challenges July 26, 2013 By Raymond J. Keating Nations that undercut intellectual property rights for perceived short-term benefits only wind up inflicting real, significant damage on themselves. They suffer in terms of lost or restrained investment, job creation, ...