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TopicCairn Energy

Topic: Cairn Energy

Corporate wars are common in India’s oil sector. But it all started with govt, ONGC, OIL

In ‘Unfilled Barrels’, journalist Richa Mishra recounts India's upstream journey in the oil sector from KD Malaviya to ONGC.

Modi govt to offer indemnity to Air India bidders over claims arising from Cairn tax dispute

Cairn, which last year won an arbitration award for $1.7 bn over a controversial retrospective tax demand, has called Air India 'an alter ego' of the Indian govt.

Air India asks US court to dismiss Cairn plea seeking seizure of assets, says it’s premature

New Delhi: Air India has asked a New York court to dismiss a petition filed by Britain's Cairn Energy for seizure of its assets...

Retrospective tax is a start, Modi govt needs to do more to make India’s playing field fairer

Retrospective taxes are just one facet of arbitrary state action. MNCs that have committed billions of dollars have many other legal minefields awaiting them.

Modi govt finally moves to bury controversial UPA era retrospective tax ghost

Decision will end India’s dispute with Vodafone Plc and Cairn Energy Plc, and in 15 other similar cases. FM Sitharaman notes that the retrospective tax became a ‘sore point’ with investors.

Cairn targets Indian assets in Paris: What is its dispute with Modi govt & why it’s escalated

A tax dispute stemming from a 15-year old transaction has adversely impacted India’s efforts to project itself as an investor friendly destination. ThePrint explains

Cairn moving to seize Indian assets embarrassing. Modi govt had time to end retrospective tax

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

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Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

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

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