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With kerosene and LPG, govt faces a balancing act

Monthly increase in prices to eliminate subsidy could dissuade people from using clean cooking fuel

IDFC PE sells entire 24% stake in Seaways Shipping to promoters

PE firm's decision to end tryst with Seaways comes in the wake of a delay in the company's IPO plans

Tubelight to Jab Harry met Sejal: Have Salman, Shah Rukh lost their mojo?

Given the recent spate of commercial flops, has Bollywood become immune to star power?

Seeking greater global power, China looks to robots

China is often portrayed as a land of fake gadgets and pirated software

Wipro's bets on digital start to pay off

The focus on cloud and artificial intelligence is working, but Wipro still has a long way to go

Netflix signs Shonda Rhimes in counterpunch to ABC and Disney

Netflix's move amounts to a major counterpunch to Disney's announcement

How ChuChu TV is reinventing kids' entertainment

With 14 million subscribers from 75 countries, the channel is a hit online

India top draw for global PE investors: Survey

Country was ranked ninth in EMPEA's market attractiveness rankings in 2013

Newsmaker: Political symbolism around Subhash Barala

The most important thing was to break the back of INLD's Jat base in Haryana

Meet India's 45th CJI: Dipak Misra, on a divided bench

A hard-line jurist, Justice Misra's judgments have been lauded and lamented in equal measure

A missing tycoon's links to China's troubled Dalian Wanda

Half a year after Xiao's disappearance, Wanda is selling off large portions of its empire

'Investors expect pre-tax returns of 17-18% from venture debt'

In a Q&A, Ajay Hattangdi shares his plans and prospects for venture debt in India

Canadian pension funds join race to buy Prestige Estates stake

Prestige is looking to sell 40-50% stake in its rental assets and could raise about $500 million

PE-VC investments in pharma grow 38% in H1

The year saw some major deals, with firms like Intas Pharma raising $106 mn in April

If retail is dying, why is money pouring into malls?

Builders have been especially busy working on malls, spending $404 million in April

Why states are changing their mind on power tariff

Move by many states after signing PPAs will dent their credibility among investors: Industry players

Investors are growing more worried about retail

American retailers have shed jobs on an annual basis for the first time since 2010

Inside the secret world of global food spies

Some big food firms are backing tech that grew out of anarchic world of crypto-currencies

Why Jet Airways is on perpetual cost-cutting drive

The airline's problems are peculiar and go beyond just wafer-thin margins in aviation

PE inflows, exits at an all-time high in H1 2017

This comes on the back of large deals in excess of $300 million