Page 7 - Privatisation

Top headlines: IDBI Bank privatisation on track; I-T searches on Huawei

Here are the top headlines on Wednesday

LIC policyholders must update PAN details by Feb 28 to participate in IPO

The initial public offering (IPO) of over 31.6 crore shares or 5 per cent government stake is likely to hit the market in March

Ahead of mega IPO, TN CM Stalin asks Centre to rollback LIC divestment

An ideal government builds institutions instead of involving itself in a selling spree. I urge the Union government to rollback this ill-thought-out decision and save LIC India: Stalin

IPO going to be very positive development in LIC history, says Sitharaman

Moving one step closer to initial public offering (IPO), LIC on Sunday filed draft papers with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

LIC IPO: Global market sell-off raises stakes for India's biggest listing

Landing the listing, which is slated for next month, will test India's capital markets at a time when about $5 trillion has been wiped out from global equities

Centre likely to miss divestment target again as BPCL remains unsold

The Centre expects to mop up nearly Rs 1 trillion from LIC's IPO

You started privatisation in 1991: Sitharaman to Cong in Rajya Sabha

Congress initiated the privatisation process in 1991 and disinvestment of worth over Rs one lakh crore was made in 1991 and the following years, she said

A change of course on privatisation

The modest targets reflect a welcome embrace of pragmatism in the govt's economic policy

Opposition attacks govt over unemployment, privatisation in Rajya Sabha

Opposition members in Rajya Sabha hit out at the government over high unemployment rate and said the Union Budget 2022-23 failed to address the issue of job creation and increasing domestic demand.

Govt yet to decide on banks to be privatised, say MoS Finance Karad

The government has not yet decided on public sectors banks that are to be privatised, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad informed Parliament on Monday.

It's clear a country can't regulate crypto on its own, says Sanjeev Sanyal

'There are a lot of claims about how important the sector is, but nobody really knows. So it's only when we begin to tax it will we get the scale of it', he said

Govt will wait for more suitors to sell BPCL, says DIPAM Secretary

So far three suitors -- the Vedanta group, Apollo Global Management Inc. and I Squared Capital Advisors -- have expressed interest in buying the government's 53% stake in BPCL.

DIPAM Secretary on the disinvestment road map

Soon after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2022 presentation, Business Standard caught up with DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey for a perspective of the govt's disinvestment road map

Next steps on privatisation

Budget detaches the programme from fiscal needs

Largely transparent, but political

Finally, the Budget for 2022-23 has returned to its agenda for protectionism in the name of creating a self-reliant India

PM Modi didn't create single PSU, privatised 23: Congress MP in RS

Congress's MP Ripun Bora in Rajya Sabha on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he did not create a single Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) while he privatised 23

Budget 2022: Divestment target for FY23 set at a modest Rs 65,000 crore

FY22 divestment mop up revised to Rs 78,000 crore from Rs 1.75 trillion pegged earlier

Last-mile sprint gave wings to Tata Group's Air India takeover

The Tatas have the know-how to quickly close deals which can otherwise get caught in legal wrangle

Govt extends deadline to place bids for PDIL privatisation

The deadline to submit EOIs has been extended to February 28 from January 31, said DIPAM

Farm-loan waiver, tax cuts, fiscal prudence: Expectations from Budget 2022

With five state elections in the coming months - Uttar Pradesh and Punjab being the major ones - some populist measures are also not ruled out, analysts said.