Tag: Investments

Bangladesh’s largest phone company pays South Asia’s highest levels of corporate tax at 40 percent, hindering efforts to expand services.Bangladesh’s high tax rate is discouraging telecoms operators from investing further in the South Asian nation as it prepares to adopt 5G technology, according to the head of the country’s ...

Investments in China's much-touted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have fallen by 54 per cent since 2019 and Beijing is no longer doling out hard cash for projects in Africa, amid criticism over infrastructure debt and loan defaults, according to a think-tank report. The BRI ...

India oi-PTI | Published: Saturday, October 2, 2021, 21:13 Dubai, Oct 2: India and the UAE on Saturday explored mutually beneficial methods and incentives to facilitate investments from the United Arab Emirates' sovereign investment entities in key priority sectors in New Delhi. Both the countries also noted the ...

#Pakistan News Since Pakistan wields influence over the Taliban, its rival New Delhi is facing a herculean task in securing its investments in Afghanistan. India has invested in Afghanistan to the tune of more than three billion dollars in the hope that the US-backed Kabul government will be aligned ...

In 2015, China announced an ambitious multibillion-dollar initiative aimed at overhauling Pakistan's crumbling infrastructure and linking the nation's southern port of Gwadar to western China.    The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative, was originally estimated to bring in $46 billion (€38.7 billion) ...

The bus was carrying a convoy of Chinese engineers to the construction site of the Dasu hydropower plant in northern Pakistan when the blast occurred, killing 13 people.Initially, Pakistan and China had released conflicting statements over the cause of the incident. Islamabad blamed a gas leak caused by mechanical ...

The Chinese commercial envoy declared that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) would bring in USD1 billion a year, whereas the actual fact was that between November 2018 - 2019, China imported 1,200 tons of pine nuts valued at USD40 million. Then there is the Five Nation Railway Project, ...

Beijing , July 9 (ANI): The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is making serious headway securing new military bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, including Kiribati - one located around 1,800 miles from sensitive US military installations in Hawaii in the Indo-Pacific area. Craig Singleton, writing in Foreign ...

Representative Image NEW DELHI: State-run Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) said its board has approved investments totalling Rs 2,202 crore for various power transmission projects.The Board of Directors and Committee of Directors on Investment on Projects, in their respective meetings held on May 21, have accorded approvals ...

NEW DELHI, Mar 12: Former Union Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday stressed on further strengthening economic ties with neighbouring Sri Lanka and said that Indian investments in the island nation will take it to a higher growth trajectory and create more local jobs.Addressing a virtual event organised by industry ...