Says Proposals On Services, IT & Environmental Goods Against Its Interest

New Delhi: India has decided to opt out of negotiations for agreements between select WTO member countries for liberalizing foreign direct investment and visa regimes in service sectors and for lowering import duty on 357 information technology products and 54 environmental goods, saying the talks were against its interests.

The GI craze in India is as inexplicable as the ways in which the Registry grants it

People of Hoovina Hadagali (population: 27,958), the taluka headquarters of Bellary district of Karnataka, are inordinately proud of their variety of mallige (jasmine). So are the growers from Udipi and Mysore, all of them claiming unique and distinctive features for their varieties of these sweet-smelling flowers which are offered to temple deities or used by south Indian women to adorn their hair.

With ministers pouring in here for the high-level segment of the UN climate negotiations, rumours swirled over the weekend about the host Qatar asking ministers from select countries to lead talks

The Group of 20, which brings together countries that account for more than 80 per cent of world economic activity, was born in the global financial crisis of 2008.

New Delhi India has been ranked by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the seventh largest player in the global services trade with the value of exports and imports aggregating $261 billion in 2011.

With exports at $137 billion and imports at $124 billion, India is one of the five countries among the top 10 players that ended 2011 with a surplus of trade in commercial services, according to a WTO report.

The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centred on the multi-billion dollar solar power market.

The EU’s executive body is already studying Chinese dumping of solar panels, or deliberately selling products for less abroad than at home or at less than cost. It is the largest import sector it has ever targeted for such investigation.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc has given global suppliers five years to comply with its environmental rules or risk being pushed off U.S.

Why don't you sell it for Rs.5?

India has decided to put on hold its plan to drag the US to the World Trade Organisation for raising the cost of work visas, hoping to resolve the issue bilaterally with the new government after th