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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicPrivatisation

Topic: Privatisation

Small airport privatisation gets on the fast lane after Modi govt relaxes rules

Many key foreign and domestic players are willing to invest in upgradation of 6 airports, including Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.

Private companies have caught up with India’s public sector on delinquent behaviour

Market-oriented reform is the only way forward for the Indian economy. But the failures of private businessmen have set back that process.

Air India debacle shows Modi doesn’t get business

For a government that was supposed to be business-friendly, the Modi administration has shown little or no understanding of what businesses actually want, as proved by the conditions set for AI sale.

Fact Check: Here’s the Red Fort-Dalmia agreement that everyone is talking about

Here's the full text of the agreement signed by the government and the Dalmia Bharat group. Even as opposition and public outcry continue over the...

The row over Red Fort shows Indian liberals outrage first and Google much later

Left-libertarians have no problems cadging sponsorships from the same 'evil' corporates for their lit-fests, and generous wine ’n cheese laden evenings.

Govt’s new defence production policy can only work with a strong private push

With an emphasis on joint research and testing as well as govt push for exports, the draft policy has got the direction right.

Privatising sectors isn’t enough, public companies need to be told to perform or die

While privatising markets benefits customers, the system must accept the hard budgetary constraints on the public sector entities in these markets.

How Modi can privatise PSU banks and still win 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a good historic course-correcting opportunity that would leave India better-off, its economy stronger and politics wiser.

Rescuing public banks could be very costly. The Modi govt must reduce its stake in them

The one sector where there is still a sense of crisis is banking, but the government has regrettably set its face against privatisation.

TalkPoint: Privatisation of education is the foremost issue for Gujarat youth

A majority of first-time voters in Gujarat are students. And in the current election campaign, there are two major issues that student face.

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.