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Champagne of teas loses fizz amid scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown

Scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea

Steel companies likely to add 29 million tonnes capacity in five years

With a better financial health, leading companies are now better placed to undertake expansion projects than they were in the past several years

Rural pulse: In long queue for vax after a relentless second Covid-19 wave

The third part of the series looks at the state of vaccination in parts of rural Bengal

This is the right time to make investment: Seshagiri Rao, JSW Steel

Demand will be robust and India will quickly recover from Covid impact, he says

Tata Steel bulks up for growth without compromising its deleveraging target

The upturn in the steel cycle has allowed it to reconsider overseas asset sales and plan domestic expansion and acquisitions

Tea industry faces crop loss for second year in a row on poor rainfall

Industry says crop loss is irreversible as first flush is gone, second is partially impacted

Narada sting: TMC ministers and MLA arrested by CBI, later granted bail

Brain behind sting operation wonders why Suvendu Adhikari was spared

Tata Steel to keep Europe, SE Asia operations in the 'family' for now

Even at low steel prices, we will be the last man standing, says Tata Steel MD & CEO

Indian steel companies see long-term change as industry rally continues

DMarket has rising since November and even lockdowns for Covid-19 have not hurt demand, say executives.

Birla Corporation March quarter net profit up 28% on higher sales

Revenues from operations stood at Rs 2,146 crore, up 24.9% YOY and 17.7% over the previous quarter

An asymmetric story: Big steelmakers mint money as smaller ones struggle

Large producers with iron ore mines and export markets are thriving in the current cycle but small ones, with access to neither, are struggling

High industry spread structural trend rather than cyclical: Tata Steel CFO

Koushik Chatterjee, executive director and chief financial officer, Tata Steel, tells Ishita Ayan Dutt that balance sheet strengthening continues to be an enterprise strategy

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India clocks 188% jump in Ebitda to $403 million

While announcing the earnings, which was the best in a decade for ArcelorMittal, the company said in the 1Q21, AM­NS India achieved solid production, annualising at 7.3 million tonnes (Mt)

Mamata 3.0: Will industrialisation pick up pace now in West Bengal?

Though the mandate is seen largely an outcome of Banerjee's welfare schemes, she promised to industrialise at a faster pace, as per the party manifesto

West Bengal Assembly election: Mamata to move court over Nandigram result

To take oath on May 5; Centre seeks report from Bengal on post-poll violence

Mamata Banerjee wins West Bengal again, to take vaccine fight to Centre now

In the high-stakes 294-seat state polls, Banerjee's TMC registered its best performance ever, wining or leading in 217 seats and bagging a vote share of 48% as at the time of publication

West Bengal govt shuts down shopping complexes, malls, restaurants, gyms

Curbs come into effect immediately, in force till further orders. Home delivery and online services permitted

ITC will help set up 200-bed Covid-19 medical facility in Kolkata

Unit will be set up and managed by Medica Superspecialty Hospitals; Bengal govt has allowed use of Kishore Bharati Stadium

Auto companies may see sharp increase in prices for steel contracts

Some have temporarily shut down units in the wake of rising Covid cases, but at least three major suppliers to the auto industry said the move was unlikely to impact negotiations

Return unused Covid-19 vaccine stock, govt tells private hospitals

Leading facilities in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru have got communication in this regard