Daily News Monitor: 16 June 2017

HEADLINES:

1. Narendra Modi government panel on innovation flags concerns over Global Innovation Index methodology

2. China, India seen as $4 tn opportunity for energy by 2040

3. Boost for Make in India: Government close to imposing basic customs duty of at least 10% on smartphones

4. India’s export to take a hit as Qatar crisis deepens

5. DIPP chalks out timeline for FDI; to give one week’s time to concerned ministry to decide case

6. Export up 8% at 24 billion in May; trade deficit widens to $14 billion

7. Seafood exports to grow above 20% in FY18

8. US’s Paris climate deal exit may lower India’s solar power tariff further

9. Closing gender gap in jobs by 2025 can add $1 trillion to India’s economy: ILO

10. Thomson Reuters, NSDL e-Governance ink pact to offer joint solution for GST

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