Daily New Monitor: 26 July 2017

HEADLINES:

1. Govt needs Rs 7 lakhs cr investments in 5 yrs for highway development

2. Modi, Abe to kick off bullet train project in September

3. India will need $4.5 trillion by 2040 for infrastructure: Report

4. Looking at measures in FTP to support exporters: Rita Teaotia

5. India’s protectionist bent for agriculture products delaying FTA: Australia

6. FinMin to brief PMO on FRBM, change in financial year

7. Inflation to rise noticeably to 4.4% in second half of 2017: Nomura report

8. Good news for smartphones cos; GST won’t hit demand in India, says report

9. To suit domestic taste, Ikea to prepare India recipe with local flavours

10. Govt has created incentives for honest taxpayers, says Arun Jaitley

11. Twelfth Five Year Plan: On weak economy, infrastructure investment projected to decline sharply

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