News: April 2014

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The two day NetMundial conference held on April 23-24 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to decide the future of internet governance was attended by over 600 scholars including representatives of 12 nations: Argentina, Brazil, France, Ghana, Germany, India, In

Recent media reports in India have noted the positive mood in the business community around the elections. International investors are also counting on the elections to bring change, though not all are optimistic.

India’s nine-phase elections have begun. The mood in the country is strongly in favor of change, and the majority of opinion polls place the main opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ahead of the Indian National Congress (INC).

On April 2, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted approval in principle to two of the twenty-five applicants for the first new banking licenses issued in over a decade.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Narendra Modi-led oppos

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Pakistan has once again put on hold a decision to grant India the long-awaited status of most-favored nation (MFN).

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As many as 50 million Indians hold a passport, close to 100 million hold a Permanent Account Number (PAN) tax card, as many as 200 million have a driving license and around 700 million have an Elector Photo Identity

With the first phase of voting in India’s impending national elections scheduled to begin on April 7, a number of financial services firms and ratings agencies have weighed in on the likely economic impact of the el