Page 36 - Economy Interviews

Tax rates for consumer goods lower under GST, says Godrej group Chairman

It will be very good if some consumer durables and other products in the 28 per cent bracket, such as paints, brought to 18 per cent, says Adi Godrej

We are concentrating on greenfield expansion, says SAIL's PK Singh

SAIL that lost its pole position in the domestic steel capacity to JSW Steel and Tata Steel has worked over the past few years to bring in operational and production efficiency

GST mop-up will touch Rs 1 trillion a month in FY19, says Hasmukh Adhia

Refunds have improved substantially now, 90 per cent of claims have already been approved or rejected

Market conditions made Air India privatisation difficult: Jayant Sinha

Transforming Air India into world class airline is one of the objective of this government, says Jayant Sinha

Banks will not be reluctant to lend to steel firms anymore: Birender Singh

These are places that are likely to emerge as steel hub for country -Kalinganagar, Angul & Rourkela. At these places only, we would be creating a capacity of 100 mn tonnes, says Union Steel Minister

IBC Ordinance does not apply to commercial real estate buyers, says Shroff

He says, objective of introducing homebuyers as financial creditors is to provide them a seat in committee of creditors so that their interests can be taken care of

Dollar nearing peak but oil remains a headwind: Morgan Stanley's Garner

In a Q&A, the Asia and emerging market equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says India is losing out to other EMs on metrics such as dividend yield and valuations

Stakeholders are getting higher than liquidation value: IBBI chief Sahoo

I am more than happy with the progress in implementation of the Code, as well as the performance of the stakeholders and agencies involved in the resolution process, says IBBI Chairman, M S Sahoo

We need a strong law on privacy: Amba Kak, lawyer & policy advisor, Mozilla

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica episode, we saw stronger calls to treat data privacy as a public or common good

More needs to be done on ease of doing business: UKIBC COO Kevin McCole

In an interview with Subhayan Chakraborty, UK-India Business Council COO Kevin McCole talks about ease of doing business for British companies already operating in India

Board should set the tone to fight financial crimes, says Anurag Jain

Companies must undertake a range of formal compliance procedures in relation to customers, third-party vendors, suppliers or partner relationships, he says

India, Russia must jointly push for multipolar world: JNU professor

India-Russia relations are such that the formal bilateral and multilateral engagements have been termed as special friendship

States where there're issues, we should correct our course: Piyush Goyal

Every election is important to us, but by-elections are fought at the local level, they are not fought to form a government in Delhi, says Goyal

Narendra Modi should remember he's not PM of Gujarat: Prithviraj Chavan

If you look at the decision to buy the Rafale aircraft, it was a non-transparent decision, says Chavan

Cultural resistance in sharing power, says economist Tushaar Shah

Even without our water crisis, doubling farmers' income in five years is an unreachable target, says Shah

SWIFT was not compromised but misused, says Alain Raes

The issue with customised messages, identified by the suffix of 99, is that they are almost impossible to audit and SWIFT doesn't validate these transactions

No political reform in China since long: Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard is a professor at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. His latest book publication is Critical Readings on the Chinese Communist Party, 4 vols (2017)

'Next Half Billion' investment is unique to India: Omidyar's Roopa Kudva

'Our first cheques have ranged from $500,000 to $5 million,' said the MD of Omidyar's India operations

We see India's fiscal deficit, debt higher than peers in FY18: Fitch chief

Deterioration in balance sheets of PSU banks in excess of Fitch expectations may spur rating downgrade, says Thomas Rookmaaker, Director, Sovereign Ratings, Fitch Ratings

IBC killing banks, likely to help borrowers like Mallya: AIBEA general secy

'The government is doing a blunder', according to C H Venkatachalam