DCNS proposal for 100% FDI in defence project rejected

Members of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Foreign Defence Attachés, paid a visit to the Nigerian Communications Commission's Head Office in Abuja on the 7th of September, 2016. The delegation was received by the Executive Vice Chairman ...

One of the biggest ways in which recent government actions have been seen as investor-unfriendly is New Delhi’s decision to unilaterally revisit almost every Bilateral Investment Treaty it has signed with other countries, says Mihir S Sharma. The Narendra Modi-led central government has often spoken of its single-minded focus on increasing investment into India. The prime minister has, for example, declared that India is “the most open economy in the world” for investment. An ...

A group of top foreign investors, including Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Fraport AG and HSBC, have asked the government to allow higher than 16 per cent return on equity to make the airport sector lucrative enough ...

The cabinet today approved the changes in the foreign direct investment regime that had sought to increase FDI to 100 per cent in defence and liberalise the policy for several other sectors.

The government is mulling to raise the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in newspapers and periodicals to 49 per cent from 26 per cent at present. Currently, the FDI policy permits 26 per cent foreign direct investment in the publishing of newspapers and ...

The finance minister of Namibia has come to the country's defence and assured investors that it remains investment grade, after Fitch Ratings revised Namibia's outlooks to negative from stable, while affirming the long-term foreign and local ...

The Centre has allowed nine state-run defence companies to freely float joint ventures and special purpose vehicles (SPVs) with foreign and domestic companies. The government has decided to abolish separate stringent guidelines hitherto applicable to defence ...

Islamabad (Online): Pakistan and Portugal agreed for enhancing cooperation in trade, investment, defense, cultural, people-to-people contacts and parliamentary exchanges. The first round of Pakistan-Portugal Bilateral Political Consultations was ...

Updates: D.C. Circuit rejected petition to review Appointments Clause Article II constitutional challenge to SEC in house administrative proceedings: On August 9, 2016, theD.C. CircuitinLucia v. SECdenied petitioner Raymond J. Lucia's petition ...