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The deal follows trade pacts over the last two years with Australia and the UAE, while officials say another, with Britain, is in its final stages, as PM Modi aims for annual exports of $1 trillion by 2030.
The certainty of a 2024 win was so palpable that there was no effort to freshly pamper any major groups.
Unlike the practice of announcing a five-year trade policy, the latest one has no end date and will be updated as and when needed, said Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Santosh Sarangi.
Leader of Opposition and Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge said it was a matter of great pride that two cinemas from southern India have won the award. In a lighter vein, he went on to state that the BJP should not jump to claim credit for the Oscars.
At the start of Rajya Sabha proceedings, RJD leader Manoj Jha, who had shot off a letter to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar about the minister's 'demeaning' remark, demanded an apology.
In a scathing attack on the CPM-led Left front government in Kerala, the minister said the state was a total failure in meeting the people's demands.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had called upon Union Minister for Consumer Affairs & Food, Piyush Goyal on Friday.
India's commerce minister faced heat on social media on Saturday for his remarks that many big domestic businesses had overlooked national interests and that $106 billion Tata Group's objections to proposed policy changes for e-commerce had upset him.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that at present, a suitable cost effective technology for provision of WiFi based internet services in trains was not available.