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Amazon Set to Grab ‘More’ Of India’s Offline Retail Space
22 Sep 2018
Domestic Traders To Oppose, Plan To Move Competition Commission
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As Modi Sucks Cash From Public Sector Companies, Dividend Payment to National Coffers Declines
15 Sep 2018
The combined annual dividend paid by PSUs to central government has declined this year for the first time since FY15, and for the second time in the decade.
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41 Oil Blocks To Vedanta Is Corporate Bonanza, While ONGC Is Bled Dry
01 Sep 2018
Auction of 55 oil and gas exploration blocks was held under the new and extremely liberalised Open Acreage Licensing Policy. And ONGC, the country’s largest crude oil and natural gas company in the…
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Power Sector: Looming NPA Crisis Cannot Be Resolved Without Reversing 2003 Reforms
27 Aug 2018
But even a recent report by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy actually praises delicensing in power generation — which opened the floodgates to the present mess with stressed power…
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Amazon, Walmart, Now Alibaba — Indian Retail Headed Towards An Oligopoly
22 Aug 2018
There are reports of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba being in talks with Reliance Retail to set up ‘a mega Indian retail joint venture’, while Amazon is looking to buy up to 49% share in Aditya…
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Ayushman Bharat Health Insurance Will Not Give Indians Freedom From Ill-Health
20 Aug 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again tried to fool the nation, on the occasion of the 72nd Independence Day, with rhetoric that the government is working to ensure ‘health for all’. It is not.
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National Health Stack: An Architecture Of Doom For Public, Data For Private Profit
21 Jul 2018
The proposed Stack, a digital infrastructure to subsume all medical and healthcare activities in India, seeks to turn the entire health sector into a market (run by private players obviously) — while…
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Gujarat Government Has No Business Appeasing Corporate Power Producers, While State Suffers
14 Jul 2018
Despite the Supreme Court disallowing compensatory tariffs to Adani and Tata for increase in imported coal costs, the state BJP government has set up a committee to help out Adani, Essar and Tata.…
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TRAI’s Public Wi-Fi Project Is Required To Take Internet To The People
11 Jul 2018
Telecom biggies Jio, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are opposing the public open Wi-Fi project as it would dismantle their monopolies, not because it would threaten ‘national security’.
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Stressed Power Assets: Government Comes Up With Five-Pronged Plan, Leaves Core Issues Untouched
07 Jul 2018
The government has saved private power generation companies from insolvency as their bad loans will be taken care of by the banks. But this will help neither the banks nor the power sector.