Will Sebi enforce higher public float?

Monday 20 May '13

In another five weeks the deadline set by the Securities and Exchange Board of India for listed companies to achieve at least a 25 per cent public float will become a rule.

Blocking investments

Monday 13 May '13

A lot of effort needs spending to make foreign investments come into India in a year that is plainly going to be a politically volatile

Kelkar panel on natural gas pricing likely to endorse Rangarajan formula

Wednesday 8 May '13

* Committee to include a more diversified basket of prices, may offer a price band

Just another meeting

Monday 29 April '13

India has experienced a painful storm in the past few years on a swathe of economic issues

Saradha-hit govt plans ordinance teeth for Sebi

Saturday 27 April '13

The proposed changes are broadly in line with a proposal the regulator sent to the finance ministry

Enough: Govt may choose to draw the line on tax litigation with firms

Thursday 25 April '13

According to Ahluwalia, about 80 pc of cases in court pertain to govt appeals, including tax cases

Good coal economics

Monday 22 April '13

In a denouement of sorts this week, the Union Cabinet will end the plan for price pooling mechanism for coal which was a sort of throwback

Gold loan companies feel the heat as prices continue to fall

Thursday 18 April '13

The companies accept that the average turnover for the loans is about six months.

Killing fields

Monday 15 April '13

A report on the stars of India''s food chain was released by Mckinsey with CII, last week

Inclusive Monetary Fund

Monday 8 April '13

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided that country surveillance will now include issues of job creation and inclusive growth

Tata Sons considers 2-tier board for continuity during transition

Tuesday 2 April '13

With a virtual revamp at the top deck at Tata Sons, the holding company of India''s largest industrial group, a fundamental change in the management structure of the board is expected soon

Mauritius: the end game?

Monday 1 April '13

Just as India has hit a high current account deficit of 6.7 per cent for the third quarter of the fiscal year, Mauritius which accounts for just a shade less than 40 per cent

After the boom, the slide

Wednesday 27 March '13

The telecom department continues to be buffeted by small storms. It has failed to lay out a clear-sighted and long-term policy

Bihar's untapped resource

Monday 25 March '13

Bihar chief Minister Nitish Kumar has made the demand for granting his state a special category state into a significant cause

The real money laundering

Monday 18 March '13

This week Reserve Bank of India will take a call on cutting rates and a day before, the finance minister will meet chiefs of public sector banks as their largest shareholder

In 4 yrs, only 700 suspected money laundering cases/yr

Saturday 16 March '13

FIU is responsible for tracking information related to suspect financial transactions.

Of lakhs of Sahara investors, SEBI finds only 68 genuine

Wednesday 13 March '13

SEBI has begun freezing the assets of the two Sahara companies.

Private miners can soon sell coal directly to users

Wednesday 6 March '13

* Innovative PPPs planned to mitigate supply crunch

'Govt can impose cess on retail sales of diesel to cut price arbitrage'

Tuesday 5 March '13

* The Budget math is conservative, including the estimates for oil subsidies: Mayaram

India comes up trumps on fiscal prudence: IMF

Monday 4 March '13

Finance ministry team has run an unusual race to come out with a globally outstanding score card in Budget.

Headroom for fiscal deficit

Saturday 2 March '13

This is rapidly eroding with each passing year but is there still to be harnessed as of now.

Over 100 and counting: Govt policies for industrial sector

Monday 25 February '13

The other gate for inflow of policies for the industrial sector is the state budgets

Speaking in the same voice

Monday 18 February '13

Within this week the growth projections for the Indian economy for 2013-14 including expenditure forecasts could be expected from the Prime Ministers'' Economic Advisory Council

Wasting domestic demand

Monday 11 February '13

Short-term blips notwithstanding, we are generally agreed on the robustness of the Indian domestic demand story.

Infrastructure needs a lot more sponsors

Monday 4 February '13

Last month a colleague travelled to a Tier-III town to cremate his father. Tragic, but inevitable