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FM asks civil aviation ministry, DoT to expedite capital expenditure

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday reviewed the progress of capital expenditure by the civil aviation ministry and the telecom department and asked them to expedite projects

FM holds meeting with UK Foreign Secy, discussed ways to enhance biz ties

Both discussed possibility of collaboration on green hydrogen to harness the natural synergies in this area between India and EU

Can't guarantee India's concerns will be addressed, says WTO D-G

But assures the long-standing issue of farm, fisheries subsidies will be heard at ministerial

India pushing to get LIC IPO done on time: FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister announced plans to sell shares in the insurer in February 2020, but pandemic slowed the process

Top headlines: NCLT setback for Amazon; WHO seeks more info for Covaxin

Business Standard brings you the top stories from today

Supply chains for vaccine raw materials must be kept open: Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman has highlighted the need of an international financial architecture to fight the pandemic and stressed on the need to keep the supply chains open for vaccine raw materials.

India in no hurry to unwind stimulus but oil a worry, says Sitharaman

Rising crude oil prices are emerging as a huge challenge and the uncertainty could upend some of her plans to get the economy back on track, she said

Opportunities galore in India amid current reset in global supply chain: FM

India has fully leveraged the potential of digitisation even during the most challenging times, the finance minister said

India's economic reforms seen as "positive step" by Biden admin: Sitharaman

"The reforms that we have undertaken, particularly the steps taken for the withdrawal of the retrospective tax has been mentioned by the United States administration as a very positive step," she said

FM discusses post-pandemic recovery, other issues with World Bank chief

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman discussed the post-pandemic economic recovery and preparations for the upcoming Climate Change Conference among other issues with World Bank President David Malpass

Climate financing continues to be an area of worry, says Sitharaman

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here said climate financing continues to be an area of worry as she flagged concerns over funding mechanism and technology transfer

Biden admin, US companies welcomed economic reforms by India: Sitharaman

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here said the Biden Administration and leaders from the corporate sector in the US have welcomed recent economic reforms introduced by her government. "The reforms that we've undertaken, particularly the steps taken for the withdrawal of the retrospective tax has been mentioned by the United States Administration as a very positive step," she said. "The businesses with whom we have been interacting have also welcomed that decision," Sitharaman told reporters here at the conclusion of the Washington DC-leg of her US trip. From here, she will go to New York for an interactive session with the business community before flying back home. She started her week-long trip from Boston. "Many of them (businesses) thought it was bold and even though it took some time to come. We have also explained that they were legal compulsions before which we had to wait because some of the litigations which were going on had to come to a logical conclusion," s

Too early to conclude on lessons learnt from Covid-19 crisis: Sitharaman

It is too early to conclude on the lessons that India learnt from the Covid-19 crisis, Sitharaman said as she stressed that the world is not going to be the same post-pandemic

FM Nirmala Sitharaman meets top WTO official amid push for vax IPR waiver

The meeting between Sitharaman and Iweala took place on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF annual meetings

Sitharaman, Yellen discuss money laundering, combating terror funding

Nirmala Sitharaman and her American counterpart Janet Yellen on Thursday discussed among other issues fighting illicit finance, money laundering and combating terrorism financing

India likely to do better than its Paris agreement targets: FM tells IMF

India is all set to meet its Paris climate agreement target to reduce emissions by 33-35 per cent of its GDP by 2030 from the 2005 level, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has told the IMF

Festival cheer and beyond: Admirable sangfroid in the face of negative news

The government's recent spate of programmes should be expected to generate some momentum, but the macro-economic numbers are not encouraging, notes T N Ninan

India committed to bring economy on path of fiscal consolidation: FM

The Indian government remains committed to bring the economy on the path of fiscal consolidation in the near-to-medium term, setting the target to reduce fiscal deficit to 4.5 per cent by 2025-26

No alternative but to ensure universal availability of vaccines: Sitharaman

India remains committed to providing vaccines to vulnerable and low-income countries, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said

India has faced Covid crisis with resilience and fortitude: Sitharaman

India has not only faced the Covid-19 crisis with great resilience and fortitude but has also played a major role and "walked the talk" on the global fight against it, Sitharaman said