All stories by Dev Chatterjee
Insolvency: Uttam Galva seeks 50% haircut. Will SBI oblige?
Rediff.com19 Mar 2018Uttam Galva Steels is a part of the Reserve Bank of India's second list of cases, which will be referred to the bankruptcy tribunal for insolvency proceedings after lenders failed to resolve the account by December 2017.
PNB scam: Bank ignored auditors' warning
Rediff.com28 Feb 2018The banks also received a warning from the rating agency Care, in February 2016, after Firestar's financials deteriorated.
Bidders for stressed assets seek level playing field
Rediff.com16 Feb 2018The code says the process is intended to balance the interests of all stakeholders and the resolution plan is also required to make a statement as to how it has dealt with these interests.
India's Super Rich got richer in 2017
Rediff.com8 Jan 2018Of the 23 Indian billionaires mentioned in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, only one saw a reduction in net worth, with the companies owned by most of them outperforming the Nifty 50 index by a big margin.
India Inc's new investment proposals down to 13-yr low in Q3
Rediff.com2 Jan 2018Companies announce Rs 768 bn worth investments in Dec quarter versus Rs 1.15 trn in Sep quarter
Modi may now focus on reforms; give sops to taxpayers
Rediff.com19 Dec 2017CEOs expect populist measures in the Budget, to help the poor and marginalised, who make up for the largest section of voters.
RCom's cup of woes spills over
Rediff.com28 Nov 2017China Development Bank takes Reliance Communications to NCLT over loan default
India Inc's foreign borrowings down 40%
Rediff.com9 Nov 2017No new capacity addition is planned for 2018 and capital expenditure plans are on hold
How Piramal Group plans to spread its wings
Rediff.com3 Nov 2017Piramal will join the JSW, Vedanta and Tata groups, which are bidding aggressively for distressed assets, especially in the infrastructure and steel sectors.
How Corporate India tackled DeMo challenges
Rediff.com25 Oct 2017The corporate sector took production cuts, conducted inventory management and reduced staff to meet challenges following the govt's note ban decision
Tata Sons to invest Rs 2,000 crore more in telecom arm
Rediff.com3 May 2017Funds will be raised via non-cumulative preference shares issued to Tata Sons on rights basis
Vodafone chief: 'You always talk about Jio, what about Airtel?'
Rediff.com3 Apr 2017After their merger Vodafone Group CEO, Vittorio Colao says India is not a Jio market alone. Aditya Birla Group CEO, Kumar Mangalam Birla says Vodafone is dominant in metro cities, while Idea is a big player in urban, semi-urban markets.
BPCL, ONGC pip Reliance in overseas fundraising
Rediff.com31 Mar 2017BPCL and ONGC raised $4.9 billion in 2016-17 against $1.65 billion raised by Reliance
Will independent directors back Cyrus in other Tata cos?
Rediff.com7 Nov 2016The Cyrus Mistry camp is confident that independent directors will take their cue from their counterparts in Indian Hotels.
'Mistry brought biggest turnaround in Indian corporate history'
Rediff.com7 Nov 2016Cyrus Mistry had put in place a strategy that would have pulled most of the Tata group's 'legacy hotspots' out of the financial mess from legacy issues and helped turn around the group's finances.
'Tata Motors board had concerns on Nano'
Rediff.com3 Nov 2016"After sinking in Rs 6,000-7,000 crore in the Nano till date, what is the result?"
Cyrus Mistry's Vision 2025 scrapped
Rediff.com26 Oct 2016The plan was to sell off non-profitable businesses apart from focusing on four verticals: real estate, defence, financial services and retail
Brick-and-mortar billionaires back on Forbes rich list
Rediff.com20 Oct 2016Top 100 billionaires see their wealth rise 10%; top 20 account for half of total wealth of top 100.
India Inc asset sales peak in 2016, Essar tops list
Rediff.com18 Oct 2016The sale of Essar Oil was India's biggest deleveraging exercise undertaken by any debt-heavy group
Rosneft, two others to buy out Ruias from Essar Oil
Rediff.com14 Oct 2016At $12-bn valuation, this will be India's largest FDI; deal to be announced on Saturday, says Dev Chatterjee.