Infrastructure Investment

Piramal Enterprises, Canadian pension fund set up $600-mn renewable energy trust; CPPIB to hold 60% in new venture

CPPIB has committed $360 million and holding up to 60 percent while Piramal Enterprises has committed $90 million and holding 15 percent.

BJP takes contrasting path to growth, poverty alleviation, pits top-down aspirations against Congress' bottom-up handouts

If you look beyond the slogans and an impressive rain of data by Narendra Modi's colleagues at the launch of the BJP manifesto, the real deal is that there is a more-of-the-same flavour in Modi's to-do list

Rising hopes on economic growth, low inflation likely to result in salary hikes of 9.7% across sectors this year

The differentiation in salary increases further widened this year to 1.9 times between top performer and average performer where the overall the top performer is expected to get an average salary hike of 15.6 percent.

IMF demands to see details of Pakistan-China financial assistance deal: Days of East India Company 2.0 long gone

Calls for greater transparency have been made in Parliament and among the top-most levels of the State Bank of Pakistan

Economic Survey says India needs $ 4.5 trn to build infrastructure by 2040; can garner $3.9 trn funds itself

Economic Survey attributes collapse of Public Private Partnership as reason for massive underinvestment in the infrastructure sector

Budget 2016: To boost innovation, FM needs to unveil meaningful and specific proposals

We need to create a vibrant environment for original innovations to take Startup India and Make in India beyond mere catchy slogans.

Why govt should take note of RBI's worries over corporates and AM Naik's disappointment

The only way out of the current deadlock for the government is to shed its obsession with fiscal deficit numbers (targeted 3.9 percent this year) and rev up public spending in a big way to trigger the big investment cycle