West Bengal truckers have been facing hardships due to the restrictions imposed on the movement of heavy vehicles following the partial collapse of Majherhat bridge in the city and are staring at huge losses, an official said on Saturday.

The long-drawn negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement will continue into 2019 to sort out issues related to goods and services trade among member nations, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Tuesday.

The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation is gearing up to set up more than 100 railway stations and terminals -- all of them "specially designed" -- along the 3,360-km-long, much-delayed network linking the eastern and western seaboards to the northern heartland.

Amid a largely volatile trade, the key Indian equity indices settled at record closing levels on Thursday with marginal gains, supported by healthy buying in capital goods and IT indices.

The US and China implemented 25 per cent tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other's goods on Thursday, ratcheting up the trade war between the world's two largest economies.

China on Thursday hit back at the US with additional 25 per cent tariffs on American goods worth $16 billion after Washington slapped taxes on Chinese goods of equal amount in the latest round of their worsening trade war.

A new round of US tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese imports kicked in on Thursday, prompting Beijing to retaliate with its own levies on American goods worth the same amount.

US President Donald Trump's administration is moving forward with its latest round of 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese goods this week while trade talks continued between mid-level officials from the two countries here.

Favourable base effect, along with higher production of consumer durables, capital and infrastructure goods, accelerated the growth of India's June industrial output at its fastest pace in the last five months.

Favourable base effect, along with higher production ofconsumer durables and capital goods, accelerated India's industrial output in June.