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Topic: Café Coffee Day

When CCD founder VG Siddhartha went missing

Rukmini Rao -
In 'Coffee King', journalists Rukmini Rao and Prosenjit Datta examine how VG Siddhartha's mega enterprise began to collapse.

Year after founder’s death, Cafe Coffee Day set to get new investors, rebuild brand

Rohini Swamy -
CCD founder V.G. Siddhartha died of apparent suicide last year, and the brand has suffered another hit due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown.

Probe finds Rs 2,000 crore missing at Café Coffee Day after founder Siddhartha’s suicide

Saritha Rai -
The probe examined financial transactions of Coffee Day and its dealings with dozens of private companies owned by V.G. Siddhartha.

Coffee Day’s tech park sale to Blackstone stalls as it waits for Yes Bank’s NOC

Baiju Kalesh -
Coffee Day Enterprises has been trying to sell its assets to repay its debt after the unexpected death of its founder- chairman V.G. Siddhartha.

ITC considers buying stake in Cafe Coffee Day following cafe chain founder’s death  

Baiju Kalesh -
A successful bid will help ITC diversify its business to reduce dependence on cigarettes as India raises taxes on tobacco, as well as help Coffee Day pare down its borrowings.

Trump offers ‘mediation’ in Ayodhya dispute as Kashmir govt ‘flashes gun’ to ease panic

Soham Sen -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

What CCD founder Siddhartha’s suicide shows – India can’t become $5 trillion economy this way

Seshadri Chari -
The attitude of the government, which looks at profit-making as the anti-thesis of socialism, has not changed in the last 25 years.

SC registry faces ‘traffic’ and Muslims demand ‘My Food My Choice Bill’

Pia Krishnankutty -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

NewsX to Republic: Siddhartha’s death shows how sensitive TV media can be when it wants

Shailaja Bajpai -
Everyone should ask TV reporters and anchors: how would you like it if your loved ones appeared on television news in a similar state?

VG Siddhartha’s death shows how bad India’s cash crunch has become

Ari Altstedter -
The apparent suicide of Siddhartha has touched a nerve as business leaders face mounting strain from an economy-wide cash crunch & slowing growth.
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Opinion

Racial attack on Northeast people finally has govt’s attention. What about Muslims?

Vir Sanghvi -
The largest number of victims of identity-based abuse in India are Muslims. In this case, the abuse comes from people at the top, and nobody is willing to do anything about it.

Why are Northeast’s youth leaving home to face racial attacks in Delhi? Policy failure

Trump’s State of the Union address laid bare America’s political fractures

Economy

After Bharat Taxi, Cooperation Ministry plans insurance sector entry via IFFCO-Tokio

Udit Bubna -
After launching Bharat Taxi, the ministry explores offering insurance products across cooperative banks via IFFCO-Tokio with cooperative banks as corporate agents.

Defence

Navy, Germany’s TKMS wrap up cost negotiations for new submarines, P-75I deal likely early next fiscal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is estimated the deal would eventually work out to cost around $9 bn at least for 6 submarines—negotiated down by India. Original bid by state-run MDL & TKMS was over Rs 1.2 lakh cr.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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