DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA $100 bn, 10 lakh jobs in 15 yrs: India seals trade pact with Europe group 158 68 Uddhav’s close associate Waikar joins Shinde-led Shiv Sena Mamata goes solo, sinks INDIA hopes, sharpens attack on BJP PM Narendra Modi with CM Yogi Adityanath in Azamgarh on Sunday. PTI Azamgarh’s vikas has Opp Why it marks a sleepless: PM Agreement signed by Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland shift, could be a template for bigger deals RAVI DUTTA MISHRA VALLABH OZARKAR NEW DELHI, MARCH 10 MUMBAI, MARCH 10 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE PROGRESS of the IndiaEFTA trade deal, which has been inked just in time before the elections dates are set to be announced, largely hinged on the $100 billion investment commitment over a 15-year period pledged by the four western European nations. This ● deal also involved a greater degree of complementarities between the two sides, and a lower level of complexity when compared to the other deals under negotiations — the one with the UK and another with the Union Minister Piyush Goyal at the signing of the India-EFTA Trade & Economic Partnership Agreement in Delhi. PTI NEW DELHI, MARCH 10 INDIA AND the four-nation EuropeanFreeTradeAssociation (EFTA), an intergovernmental grouping of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, signed a trade pact Sunday that will see the EFTA countries committing to invest $100 billion in India and aiming LUCKNOW, MARCH 10 STEPPING UP his attack on the Opposition INDIA bloc, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Azamgarh Sunday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of as many as 782 projects worth Rs 34,700 crore in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Þeer. SkeÀveeLe efMebos cee. cegK³eceb$eer mevceeveveer³e DeefleLeer Þeer. Deefpele HeJeej Þeer. oerhekeÀ kesÀmejkeÀj cee. GHe cegK³eceb$eer cee. ceb$eer, µee}s³e efµe#eCe, ceje"er Yee
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