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Companies from India and Bangladesh today signed pacts worth over $ 9 billion here aimed at deepening partnership in sectors like power and oil and gas.

India's top 200 companies are set to outperform their Chinese peers despite the country's infrastructure bottlenecks, according to a report by S&P Global Ratings.

India`s top companies are expected to report their weakest pace of growth in two years in the quarter to March, held back by drought and slack demand - a slowdown analysts and companies expect to reverse with an `above-normal` monsoon in 2016.

There were 1.4 lakh companies lying dormant till July 16 as compared to 1.21 lakh at the end March, he added.

India Inc raised a staggering over Rs 1.33 lakh crore from markets in the first two months of the current fiscal (2015-16), with debt emerging as the most preferred route.

Shares of Indian companies with exposure to Europe faced selling pressure on Monday amid worries over the Greek debt crisis.

India has retained its second position globally in terms of hiring outlook of companies, but the pace of job additions will slow over the next three months, global staffing firm ManpowerGroup said on Tuesday.

Corporate India is yet to fully comply with the rules related to prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace, especially with regard to training internal committee members, says a survey.

Companies will soon have a reason to cheer as plans are on anvil to set up multi-disciplinary partnerships that offer services of audit, cost accounting and consultancy, among other services, under one roof.

Asserting that various steps have been taken to protect investor interests, the government today said no fresh case of fraud involving 'vanishing companies' had been reported so far this year.

Some of India`s biggest companies are pouring billions of dollars into manufacturing guns, ships and tanks for the country`s military, buoyed by the new government`s commitment to upgrade its armed forces using domestic factories.

As many as 3,254 foreign companies were operating in India till June this year and the National Capital and Maharashtra had maximum number of such firms, Parliament was informed on Friday .

The government on Friday said it would be premature to form any opinion at this stage on whether companies are resorting to tactics to avoid CSR spending.

Jaitley said public sector undertakings should learn to function like private business houses in a competitive environment.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Tuesday said public sector undertakings should learn to function like private business houses in a competitive environment.