FDI

India Thursday announced an updated foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that simplifies joint venture norms and opens up new areas for overseas funds. The updated policy allows overseas firms in existing joint ventures to operate separately in the same business segment. Earlier, they needed prior approval from their Indian partners. " FDI policy is part of ongoing efforts of procedure simplification and foreign direct investment rationalisation, which will go a long.. Full Article

Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today announced in his Budget Speech that discussions are underway to further liberalize the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy. All prior regulations and guidelines have earlier been consolidated into one comprehensive document in order to make FDI policy more user friendly. This is reviewed every six months, said the Finance Minister. The last review was released in September 2010. Full Article

The advance estimates (AE) of the Economic Survey 2010-11 put the growth rate of the services sector at 9.6 per cent. This is despite global deceleration in the sector. The sector had registered 10.1 per cent growth in 2009-10. Full Article

To attract foreign manufacturers to invest in India, a group of ministers is considering a proposal to raise Foreign Direct Investment limit in the defence sector to 49 per cent from the current 26 per cent.The Defence Ministry today said the proposa Full Article

The Reserve Bank today said efforts should be made to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the country, as they are more stable than portfolio investments. These remarks come a day after the central bank said that environment-sensitive pol Full Article

The British government is hopeful that the three-year old dispute of Vodafone's joint venture in India involving a tax claim of over Rs.11,000 crore ($2.5 billion) will be settled amicably, a British official said Wednesday. 'Vodafone is one of th Full Article

Based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in its meeting held on December 31, 2011, Government has approved 19 Proposals of Foreign Direct Investment amounting to `Rs. 4340.77 crore approximately. Full Article

Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), which is mandated to consider and recommend proposals relating to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) under the government route in terms of extant FDI policy held 14 meetings during the calendar year, including Full Article