The Russia-India Business Forum, held in Mumbai on November 11, 2024, with support from the Roscongress Foundation, brought together business and industry leaders from both countries. The forum focused on strategies to enhance trade between Russia and India and foster cooperation in key sectors, including the development of Russia's Far East, smart city technologies, industry, IT, finance, and participation in various business forums and conferences.

The dates for the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) talks in early 2025 would be finalized through diplomatic channels at an early date, the commerce and industry ministry said Wednesday, a day after Britain said that the two will 'relaunch in the new year' talks for a trade pact.

Britain will restart talks with India on a free trade deal in the new year, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office said on Monday, following a months-long pause in negotiations due to elections in both countries.

The deadline for submission of price offers is Dec. 2. A previously issued tender from Bangladesh also seeking 50,000 tons of rice closes on Monday.

The global import food bill is expected to increase by 2.2 percent from the previous year to more than $2 trillion in 2024, pushed up by higher prices for cocoa, coffee and tea and also buoyed by higher import costs for fruits and vegetables, according to Food Outlook, a report the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Oman has hit a deadlock, as the West Asian nation has asked New Delhi to revise its market access offer on certain products.