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Gaps in FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2020 team have experts worried

Budget will be presented in Parliament in early 2020; people joining now will find it difficult to pick up

Belt and Road Initiative: 'China's social governance of the world'

For the Chinese, the landmark project is more than just a giant infrastructure project

India's telecom sector could face another test, this time from CCI

CCI does not need to wait to pick up cases only after it is approached by an affected party, it can and has done suo moto cases too

MTNL-BSNL merger: Limited spectrum to be a challenge for combined entity

BSNL has a nice piece of real estate in the 2500 band, but doesn't have the engineering capacity to farm the band

AGR or spectrum? What's a bigger drag on telecom operators' finances?

Trai says a reduction in AGR will allow more investment in telecom sector, but DoT argues the same can be ensured if Trai agrees to reduce spectrum reserve price at auctions

Questions without answers

Rai has recounted in detail each flashpoint between the different bodies and the political executive but has often stopped short of taking a clear position on who is to blame

Apart from INX Media case, here are 2 other FIPB clearances that made noise

Right from the early days of liberalisation, there have been political controversies surrounding several cases that landed on the FIPB table and which, in turn, have often led to court battles

Learning the wrong lessons from the coal experience for renewable energy

Why India's weak budget support for RE could be hurting now

Fact and reality: Why India dropped in global competitiveness ranking

WEF's latest global competitiveness report shows that the global business community's opinions are often at variance with the facts

Soon, you may track live status of private and public sector infra projects

This is the first time that the government will list out specific projects from the private sector as part of its responsibility to get them going

Insurance brokers battle for survival as they lag behind in the tech race

The challenge for everyone is how to fend off competition from insurance companies and the sweep of technology, making their business models irrelevant

FM's tax cuts may give more elbow room to govt to sign the RCEP deal

Key pain point of Indian industry, of being a high-cost producer of goods, substantially reduced; Indian tax on companies now slightly below average Asian level

China would want India to be one of the countries to sign RCEP: Economist

Song Hong's comments are significant given his standing in the Chinese Communist Party which gives him an influential voice in the trade negotiations of the country

The largest rewrite of the banking history and merger's cultural traps

Govt's focus on technological compatibility over cultural is set to make the largest rewrite of the banking history a complex job

Technology underlay FM Nirmala Sitharaman's bank mergers decision

Numbers of officers now more than other workers in PSBs

Meet Bimal Jalan, the go-to advisor across the political spectrum

One of the reasons Jalan can afford to be forthright is that he has seen it all in his 78 years

Explained: Why RIL-Aramco deal could be a template for refinery sector

The big question is how far India has become a favoured destination for the oil refineries to uproot their investments from Europe and elsewhere to plug and play here

Budget 2019: Centre's capex projected to rise to Rs 3.38 trillion in FY20

So the heavy lifting in public investment has to be shouldered by the 257 operating central public sector enterprises

Budget 2019 should not affect value of rupee: Government to emissaries

Government emissaries had met a spectrum of foreign investors in the past couple of months to figure out ways to draw in more capital into the economy

Events since January show banks were not keen to drag Jet to bankruptcy

Gyrations in its share prices last week show that the airline had erased investor wealth with the passive support of the banks