With displays of food production, technology, culinary wares, latest hospitality designs, hospitality trends and global food and wine contests - the Food & Hotel Asia 2010 exhibition in Singapore next month is expecting greater participation of the Indian food and hospitality industry.

India is the second largest growing economy after China, but it will overtake its neighbouring country by 2018, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of London-based Economist
magazine, said Tuesday.

Mozambique is finalising two key agreements with India, one on double taxation avoidance and another on conferring most favoured nation status, to strengthen its trade and economic ties with a
nation which it sees as an "inspiration".

The government has no plans to merge nationalised banks with India's largest state-run State Bank of India (SBI), a minister said Tuesday.

 The $13 billion Indian media and entertainment industry is seen growing 13 percent annually over the next five years to net revenues of $24.25 billion by 2014, says a report released Tuesday.

India would outpace China in GDP growth within 15 years, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has predicted in its annual report released Tuesday.

About Rs.200 crore of unaccounted income has been detected in the past week in surveys conducted by the income tax authorities in Ahmedabad and Surat, an official said Tuesday.

State Trading Corp (STC), India's official agency for import of various commodities, plans to enter new areas of business, including contract farming overseas for pulses, to step up its turnover to $4.6 billion this year.

Noting that the implementation of the landmark India-US civil nuclear deal presented a "win-win situation", India has sought more trade in high technology items with the removal of Indian firms from the barred Entity list.

The dot-com domain, which helped launch some of the most pioneering and successful internet companies, marked its 25th anniversary Monday.