UCBs accounted for 1.8% of total industry credit in September 2025—down from 2.2% five yrs ago—showing that they are losing ground to faster PSU banks.
Set up as an alternative grievance redressal mechanism for domestic & international arbitration, India International Arbitration Centre is still struggling to win the trust of PSUs and MSMEs.
India’s premier defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, will have a new Chairman and Managing Director in May 2026. The selection process has...
On 1 April 2000, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke at the Conference of Chief Executives of Public Sector Enterprises, emphasising the need to reform PSUs.
The BIBCOL factory in UP’s Bulandhshahr was at the forefront of India’s fight against polio. But it hasn’t produced a single vaccine since December 2022 despite being in working order.
PSUs & capex-linked stocks have been showing strong growth, driven by 'narrative' of Modi's infrastructure creation. Now, investors will likely rely on underlying company fundamentals.
Driven by govt’s infra push, Make in India & transition to green energy, PSUs across sectors have seen their stocks jump more than 100% in one year, even by 300-400% for some.
Professor D. Manjunath's paper, yet to be peer reviewed, cites rise in number of students going abroad, lure of PSU jobs & ‘declining quality’ of Master’s courses as possible reasons.
Years of high disinvestment led to public sector company stocks falling even when overall markets were rising. Govt’s easing back on disinvestment has helped turn this around.
Iran is not unfamiliar terrain for US planners. The scenario has been war-gamed for decades. But control of territory does not equate to control of the conflict.
Hormuz crisis is only the latest in a line of geopolitical flashpoints that shaped India’s energy strategy over the years, starting from OPEC oil embargo that followed the Yom Kippur war.
INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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