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India
India poised for quantum leap in infrastructure: PM
India is set for a quantum leap in infrastructure and concerted efforts are on to bolster growth in highways, information ways and railways, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said launching the Setu Bharatam project. In this project, 208 railway crossings will be replaced by rail over bridges by 2019.
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India
Parrikar finds $3 bn lying forgotten in US account
New Delhi had placed the money in the Pentagon-managed account for weaponry it was buying under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme
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India
India files trade dispute against US over temporary work visas
India has disputed measures imposing increased fees on certain categories of temporary work visas for US
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India
Jewellers extend pan-India strike till March 7
Govt has reimposed 1% excise duty on gems and jewellery sector without input credit and 12.5% with input credit
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Giappone
Nikkei retakes 17,000 amid caution before U.S. jobs data
Stocks closed moderately higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday amid a wait-and-see mood prior to the release of U.S. jobs data, with the benchmark Nikkei average ending above 17,000 for first time in about one month. The 225-issue Nikkei rose 54.62 points, or 0.32 percent, to 17,014.78, its first ...
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Giappone
ANA mulls introducing Haneda-New York flights in October
All Nippon Airways will consider launching direct flights linking Tokyo’s Haneda airport with eastern U.S. cities including New York from late October, airline President Osamu Shinobe said Friday. ANA hopes to take advantage of new takeoff and landing slots between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. at the airport, to be ...
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Giappone
Facebook to ditch tax-reducing U.K. sales structure
Facebook said it would stop booking sales to U.K. clients via Ireland, a practice which reduced its taxes, following the British government’s introduction of a new tax on profits shifted offshore. In future, Facebook will report its U.K. sales in Britain. “In light of changes to tax law in the ...
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Giappone
Japan’s major business lobby to urge workers to take more holidays
Japan’s most influential business lobby pledged Friday to urge its member firms to have employees take more holidays in a bid to boost the tourism industry. In a dialogue with the government, the chief of the Japan Business Federation, better known as Keidanren, said the lobby will call on companies ...
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Giappone
Japan to conduct road tests for diesel vehicles over NOx concerns
The transport ministry plans to start road trials for diesel vehicles after the amounts of nitrogen oxide emitted from four of six models exceeded the maximum-allowable level in a recent test. Transport minister Keiichi Ishii told a news conference on Friday that no software that manipulates emission levels was found ...
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Giappone
Calls for fiscal spending grow in Japan ahead of summit, election
Amid a politically eventful year, calls are growing within the government and ruling parties to compile stimulus steps to gird the flagging economy ahead of a key summit and the Upper House election. Though doing so would go against the nation’s efforts to heal itself fiscally, a pledge by Group ...