Page 20 - Subhomoy Bhattacharjee/workspace/business Standard Web/undefined

Tweak in policy helps attract 'realistic' bids for coal blocks: Experts

Revenue-sharing model drove interest among larger firms, say experts

Mega free trade agreement likely to be a closed chapter for India

Examining instead Japan-India-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Initiative for free, transparent trade and investment

Coal India is bleeding but govt keeps pressuring to declare large dividends

Since September 2018, CIL's cash reserves have fallen over 17 per cent to Rs 28,446.83 crore

Why insurance firms are poised to march past the banks on the stock market

They make up 43% of the m-cap of banks today and many, including LIC, will soon be listed; by contrast, not a single yet-unlisted bank is so massive as to create ripples when it goes public

Real or nominal? Making sense of FM's 'near zero' GDP growth comment

A zero nominal growth rate of GDP would mean the real rate of growth of GDP would be in negative territory.

The green wall that could be disrupting India's economic recovery

No foreign firm bid for any of the mining blocks; more overseas lenders are now demanding green commitments from Indian borrowers

Vodafone case shows why India's not renewing 70-odd BITs with foreign govts

India does not recognise the jurisdiction of any foreign court in a commercial dispute that questions the state's sovereign power to intervene

How the three members in the new MPC plan to track CPI inflation

Business Standard brings you their take on G-secs, poverty and even blockchain

Pandemic Pool: Is this the best the insurance sector could come up with?

In case of a calamity, the govt may need to step in to help those at the lower rung of the economic ladder and it may not need the insurance sector as a middleman in those circumstances

Govt deviates from norm, asks House to regularise 2-year-old expenditure

Demonstrates the sluggishness at the Centre in finalising its accounts, which means the states have to depend on older data to make their point about revenue and expenditure mismatch

Of human bondage

It is such detailed work on forced labour that could have been significant

Stamp duty going digital is like demat of shares: NeSL MD & CEO S Ramann

NeSL has set up a secured digital document execution (DDE) platform which will facilitate MSMEs and individuals to avail contactless loans on remote basis, says S Ramann

UP is the new Kerala in terms of remittances from Indians in the Gulf

The northern state houses 21 of the top-50 districts from where most low-skilled Indians go overseas for employment, followed by Bihar with seven; Kerala has only one

Govt asks ministries to review performance of staffers aged over 50

Older, inefficient employees may be pushed into early retirement

How the SC order on use of natural resources could muffle investments

If a resource has become useful only because someone has improved it through an investment, there should be no reason not to let that addition be counted and the valuation determined accordingly

Private investors plan to expand gas pipeline network amid complex policies

Indian and foreign investors have shown interest in the country's plans to expand its domestic gas pipeline network but remain worried about steel capacities at home and the complex pricing policies

Why Atmanirbhar could be govt's biggest gift to Indian pvt sector in 30 yrs

Despite the largesse, however, it remains to be seen whether or Indian companies can shrug off the old habit of jugaad, tweaks and twists

Throwback to SEZ era: Real estate sector makes room for data centres

The central government ministries, too, are getting into the act on behalf of the sector.

Why corporations still struggle to find land to set up manufacturing bases?

Companies, Indian and foreign, have discovered that there are still no developed markets for land

Will the country finally have an integrated tax surveillance system?

Valuable leads on under-payment of tax have often slipped between CBDT and CBEC, who have been more eager to protect their respective turfs