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Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicPrivate equity

Topic: private equity

Samsonite was a classic American success story. How private equity firms strip-mined it

In 'These Are the Plunderers', Gretchen Morgenson writes it took a decade for Apollo to gut this once-thriving and iconic American luggage maker.

SEBI allows private equity firms to own mutual fund companies

Currently, India only allows financial services firms and corporates to back Asset Management Companies (AMC).

Parle Products, maker of Parle G biscuits, in talks to buy Polish biscuit maker Dr Gerard

Dr Gerard is valued between 10 and 12 billion rupees, reports say, with one of the people cited saying it could be as high as 24 billion rupees

On Camera

Tejashwi Yadav has overcome challenges. Now he must prove himself in Bihar elections

In recent years, Tejashwi has worked to broaden his social base by giving more tickets and organisational posts to non-Yadav communities such as Kurmis, Kushwahas, and Koeris.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.