Nirmal Om newsline

Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey starts an official visit of India on Monday an important step towards shifting Switzerland's relationship with India from traditional aid development programmes to joint ventures on themes of common interest in the signing of a joint declaration on privileged partnership, setting the foundations for closer links between the two countries.Swiss exports rose 38 per cent to SFr1.9 billion ($1.65 billion) in 2006 and imports were up 13 per cent to SFr737 million. Christoph Graf, head of the SDC's South Asia division in the bilateral cooperation department, told swissinfo "We see many opportunities through our past investment, experiences and the networks we have developed to open doors for other players such as scientific and environmental institutions," Economics Minister Doris Leuthard visited India in August to push a proposed Free Trade Agreement between India and EFTA states – Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Leutha...

Congress-led government may certainly has its back to the wall on the SEZs (Special Economic Zones) issue as this is anti peoples welfare which is planned without the consent of the people affected the public voice condemns this project and demands scrapping of the same. Consumer is the key of all business and government policies and when his rights are flouted,the credibility of governance deteriorates. the The Government through its cabinet approval allowing the Multinational banks and other companies to have Laws and enforcements of procedures to suit the MNC for procurement of Loans,EMI,fiscal borrowing without taking consumer interest intact tantamount to nexus between the Politicians and businessmen. Ram Sethusamundaram project by national parties is ill conceived and lacks complete transparency and not studying in details as per the requirement of scientific,environmental and religious study.Peoples apthy in this projects is not with the politicians. Indo-US civil nuclear de...