ASG India Newsletter: Monsoon Parliamentary Session, FDI Announcements and Rising Gas Prices

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. Share This: Analysis Preview of the Monsoon Session of Parliament The upcoming Monsoon Session of the Indian Parliament will open on August 5 and continue until August 30. If the government calls for early polls in November (as some reports suggest it might), this could be the last Parliamentary Session before the national...more Sector Overview Recent FDI Announcements: What has Changed? In September last year, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government relaxed FDI norms in sectors including multi-brand retail, single-brand retail,commodity exchanges, power exchanges...more Analysis Gas Prices on the Rise On June 27, the Indian government approved the near doubling of natural gas prices from $4.2 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) to US$ 8.4 per mmBtu...more News Wrap Vice President Joe Biden's trip to India Vice President Joe Biden arrived in India on July 21, marking his first trip to India since he assumed office in 2009 and the first trip by a US Vice President in almost three decades...more Number to Watch 21.9% The proportion of people living below poverty line (BPL) in India has came down from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05 to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12, representing a decline of 15.3 percentage points, according to the Planning Commission. The figure is based on the poverty line of 2011-12 that assumes only those people who spent less than Rs 27.2 per day in villages and Rs 33.33 in urban areas were poor News Updates Clinical trial of untested drugs needs regulation: Apex court Clinical trials of untested drugs on humans require certain mandatory standards to be followed, the Supreme Court said today... more India to be world's 3rd largest automotive market by 2016: IHS Although the economic growth vulnerability and lower sentiment resulted in market slowdown in 2012 and 2013, India is expected to regain strong growth trend from 2014 onwards...more RBI starts scrutiny of nearly 3,000 private finance companies The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has started scrutiny of nearly 3,000 companies which could be carrying out non-banking finance operations without requisite...more UPCOMING events 1. National Telecom Summit 2013 Date: August 2, 2013 Venue: Hotel Lalit, New Delhi 2. Massmerize 2013 (Retail & FMCG) Date: August 7, 2013 Venue: TBC, New Delhi 3. FIBAC 2013 Date: August 13-14, 2013 Venue: Hotel Trident, Mumbai RESOURCES India Philanthropy Report 2013 - Bain & Company download pdf India's National Cyber Security Policy notification, 2013 download pdf CRISIL Inclusix: India's first comprehensive financial inclusion index download pdf < powered by 9.9 Media For more information on ASG's work in India, click here or contact indiateam@albrightstonebridge.com www.albrightstonebridge.com 1101 New York Avenue, NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 | Phone: (202) 842–7222 Fax: (202) 370–3599 555 13th Street, NW Suite 300 West Washington, DC 20004 | Phone: (202) 637–8600 Fax: (202) 637–8615 This email was sent to cnews2day.i-news@blogger.com. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. manage your preferences | opt out using TrueRemove®. Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.