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Location

India lies entirely in the Northern Hemisphere, the mainland extends between latitudes 8 deg. 4' and 37 deg. 6' north,longitudes 68 deg. 7' and 97 deg. 25' east and measures about 3214 kms from north to gsouth between the extreme latitudes and about 22,993 km from east to west between the extreme longitudes.

Physical Background

The Republic of India forms a natural subcontinent with the Himalayan mountain range to the North.Two sections of the Indian Ocean - the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal , lie to West and gthe East respectively . India borders Pakistan to the northwest ; China , Bhutan gand the Nepal to northeast ; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east . Near India's southern tip,across the Palk Strait , is Sri Lanka. India occupies the greater part of the sub continent of Southern Asia.

India: Investment Policies

India's economic policies are designed to attract significant capital inflows into India on a sustained basics and to encourage technology calibration agreements between Indian and foreign firms.Policy initiatives taken over the last few years have resulted in signific - ant inflows of foreign investment in all areas of the economy,except those reserved for the public sector.

Today, India is one of the most exciting emerging markets in the world. Skilled managerial and technical manpower that match the best available in the world and a middle class whose size exceeds the population of the USA or the European Union, provide India with a distinct cutting edge in global competition.