Is it end of the line for South Asia's ship graveyards?

With a plunge in steel prices, ship owners are getting about $3.6 million less for the 25,000 tonnes of recoverable metal from a typical iron ore or coal carrying......

9 Infra suggestions for Budget 2018

Stepped up public expenditure must be accompanied by focused policies, advises Vinayak Chatterjee. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has let it known that in the......

Gujarat facing the dragon's threat

Call it yet another threat from China. The Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion) ship-breaking industry at Alang in Gujarat now faces a threat from the dragon. "The world's largest ship-breaking yard is......

Demonetisation has hit at the heart of businesses

From farmers to cement, steel, logistics, transportation and automobiles, the back-end is struggling to get going due to the liquidity crisis.  Viveat Pinto & Aditi Divekar, Chandan Kishore......