สรุปข่าวเศรษฐกิจอินเดียประจำวันที่ 31 พฤษภาคม 2556
In a “major boost” to bilateral security cooperation, India and Thailand Thursday signed the much awaited extradition treaty after 20 years of intense negotiations, with New Delhi eyeing to bring back a key aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The two countries also firmed up a pact to effectively deal with money laundering, terror financing and ratified a treaty on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, enabling both sides to swap prisoners after they have served a portion of their prison terms.
The two sides signed seven agreements, including cooperation in space technology and education after wide ranging talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Thai counterpart Yingluck Shinawatra.
An MoU between
(Sources: Economic Times, Indiatimes, Times of
The Thai capital headed the 2013 list based on total projected visits by foreigners, followed by
The ranking was based on a city's expected international air travel arrivals and the amount of money spent in the city by those arrivals.
(Sources: Business Standard, Reuters
Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at 4.8% in the quarter ending 31 March, the date showed, in line with a poll of analysts by Reuters.
The manufacturing sector grew an annual 2.6% during the quarter, while farm output rose just 1.4%, the data showed.
(Sources: Economic Times, Indiatimes, Deccan Chronicle, Livemint, Times of
US slaps 5.91% import duty on Indian shrimp
The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has imposed a 5.91 per cent countervailing duty (CVD) on Indian shrimp. On Wednesday, DoC released the preliminary duty rates of CVD to seven exporting countries. The final rates will be released in August.
According to Ravi Reddy, president, Seafood Exporters Association of India, this would badly affect not only the export sector, but also the producers. As the export cost increases, the industry will go for price reduction at the producers' level. So this will seriously affect the fishing sector, especially the aquaculture sector. Due to various reasons, catches from the sea had slowed down during the last five to six months, so cost of procurement of raw material has increased heavily, he added.
Shrimp is one of the largest export items from
(Sources: Smart Investors, Rediff News, Shrimp News, Business Standard)
As per the Indian Wind Energy Association (IWEA) data, growth in wind power generation capacity has been highest since 2008-09. The state has outperformed the national average growth of 22 per cent for the wind power generation capacities.
Notably, Gujarat's share in
(Sources: Economic Times, Indiatimes, Business Standard, Smart Investors)
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Oil Ministry's draft policy for exploration of shale gas provides for giving operators of block awarded under New Exploration Policy (NELP) since 2000, the first right of refusal for exploiting the unconventional resource. It however does not confer the same rights to operators of pre-NELP blocks like Rajasthan.
(Sources: Economic Times, Indiatimes, Business Standard, Livemint)
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