Opportunities are opening up in India for small to mid-sized Canadian mining companies, says the Canada-India Business Council With its growing population—1.2 billion at last count—India is set to overtake China as the largest country in the world by 2025. Currently the fourth largest energy consumer in the world, India has a large middle-class population [...]

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has made it clear that any bilateral investment protection agreement has to be subject to jurisdiction of domestic legal institutions and India will not allow it to be subjected to foreign courts or tribunals. “We cannot allow highest court of the land to be subjected to any foreign courts or tribunals,” [...]

Overturning fears of foreign investors about fiscal deficit, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that India was committed to reducing its fiscal deficit and would achieve the target of 3 per cent in 2016-17. He said: “India will reduce the fiscal deficit until we reach the target of 3 per cent in 2016-17 or perhaps [...]

India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram has made it clear that any bilateral investment protection agreement has to be subject to jurisdiction of domestic legal institutions and India will not allow it to be subjected to foreign courts or tribunals. “We cannot allow the highest court of the land to be subjected to any foreign courts [...]

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has made it clear that any bilateral investment protection agreement has to be subject to jurisdiction of domestic legal institutions and India will not allow it to be subjected to foreign courts or tribunals. “We cannot allow highest court of the land to be subjected to any foreign courts or tribunals,” [...]

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has again made a pitch for lowering interest rates. Speaking to Business Standard here on Monday, he pointed to the latest inflation numbers to make his case. “Both core inflation and WPI inflation have come down for the month of March, CPI is down to 10.4 per cent, so these are [...]

P. Chidambaram is in Toronto to drum up investments.  

Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who arrived in Toronto on Sunday on a two-day visit aimed at attracting Canadian investment in infrastructure, will kick off the investment road shows today. He is accompanied by top finance ministry and central bank officials. Chidambaram has been conducting similar road shows in global financial hubs over the last year, [...]

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had arrived here yesterday on a two-day visit aimed at attracting Canadian investment in infrastructure sector. He is being accompanied by top Finance Ministry and central bank officials, official sources said here on Sunday. The Finance Minister will kick off the India investment roadshows in Toronto today. He has conducted similar [...]

Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram is on a whirlwind trip through the North American East coast, which will culminate later this week at the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington. On Monday morning, he spoke at a breakfast event organized by the Canada-India Business Council in downtown Toronto. His remarks served as a useful reminder of how [...]