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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.