What makes Tuticorin agitation different from others

Mass agitations are not particularly uncommon in India. But a mass agitation led by an environment-related issue that has gone out of hand is not something that can be easily recalled. Ishita Ayan......

Elite CISF commandos to guard Tata campus in Odisha

A squad of about 300 special Central Industrial Security Force commandos has taken over the security of a large Tata Steel manufacturing facility in coastal Odisha, making it the 7th private sector......

UPA-2: Time to change course

The government must give up its neo-liberal polices and obsession with GDP growth and shift its ideological centre of gravity leftwards, argues Praful Bidwai. It's no aberration that the first......

Why Naveen Patnaik may be headed for 3rd term

Last week, at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Finance Minister P Chidambaram was asked if he worried that his aspiration of a 9 per cent growth might hit an internal security roadblock? Of......

Don't see change in UK strategy: Tata Steel chairman N Chandrasekaran

There has been no change in Tata Steel’s strategy on operations in the United Kingdom (UK), company chairman N Chandrasekaran has told shareholders. IMAGE: Tata Group Chairman Natarajan......

'For Tata Steel, It Will Be Better Than Last Year'

'When you look at reviving private sector capex, I don't think there's a better story than steel.' Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters Tata Steel has a lot on its plate -- restructuring the business......

India's Big Guns Firing On Capex Front

'Interim Budget has ignited the entrepreneurial spirit.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Is private capex picking up? In the Interim Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala......

'We expect the losses to be lower from UK'

'The UK is more of a structural problem, and that’s why we’re doing the restructuring.' IMAGE: General view of the Tata Steel Port Talbot Steelworks plant, Wales, Britain. Photograph:......