20 years later: India's privatisation story off to 'Maharaja' start

After a hiatus of nearly two decades, the government's CPSE privatisation programme started off with flying colours with Tata group buying the debt-laden national carrier Air India. Illustration:......

Lukewarm response to Posco compensation

The Orissa government and Posco India's effort to expedite land acquisition for the latter's Rs 54,000-crore (Rs 540-billion) steel project near Paradeep in Jagatsinghpur district has turned out to......

Environment & industries: SC the saviour in '08

From a legal perspective, 2008 has been noteworthy for the corporate world as the Supreme Court cleared the environmental hurdles for three projects, which entailed investments in billions of......

Mixed fortunes for divested PSUs

The financial performance of public sector undertakings privatised under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance regime in 2002-03 and 2003-04 has been a mixed bag. While......