| NewsClick

PTI
Coronavirus: Railways Cancels 155 Trains till March 31, Airlines Announce Pay Cuts
19 Mar 2020
The ICSE board has postponed class 10 and 12 examinations, UGC asks universities to postpone exams, suspend evaluation work
Sumedha Pal
COVID19: “Tortured not Tested” Say Those Returning from France to Delhi
18 Mar 2020
Passengers allege they were stranded at the airport for hours, without food, water or testing.
PTI
Government Extends Deadline to Bid for Air India till April 30
13 Mar 2020
The notification said, “the changes are in view of the requests received from the IBs (interested bidders) and the prevailing situation arising out of COVID-19.”
Newsclick Production
Let’s Talk: Modi Government’s Privatisation Spree
06 Feb 2020
In this episode of Let’s Talk, Prasanth talks to senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta about the Narendra Modi government’s desperate call to sell most of the government entities.
Newsclick Production
Selling LIC Will Put India's Economic Autonomy in Danger
04 Feb 2020
In this year's Union Budget, the government announced the decision to sell its shares in the public sector Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
Newsclick Report
Kunal Kamra Sends Legal Notice to IndiGo, Seeks Lifting of Ban, Rs 25 Lakh in Damages
01 Feb 2020
The stand-up comedian’s lawyer said the pilot-in-command or Arnab Goswami had not made any complaint and therefore, as per the regulations, no action could be initiated against him.
Amitabha Roychowdhury
Maharaja Turned to a Pauper Before Sell-Off
30 Jan 2020
Air India’s owner – the government – has never owned up to its role in reducing the world player to nothing, which is why interested bidders need a net worth of merely Rs 3,500 crore!
Ronak Chhabra
Air India Unions Mull Strike If Employees’ Concerns Not Addressed Ahead Of Privatisation
29 Jan 2020
The Modi government is “hurriedly” going with the plan of selling off Air India without bringing all the parties into confidence which will only create more “mess”, said an employees’ representative…
Prabhat Patnaik
If a Private Player Can Revive a PSU, Why Can’t Govt?
14 Dec 2019
This is the second part of an article on the perversity of the neo-liberal fiscal regime, and how its Hindutva votaries, who are close to corporate-financial oligarchy, are dismantling the public…
Amitabha Roychowdhury
Air India Sell-Off: Offloading 100% Stake Isn’t a Good Idea
26 Sep 2019
In most cases of privatisation or mergers worldwide, governments have retained a holding, even if minority, in the privatised airlines, and have kept employees in the loop.