Aman Malik

A physicist turned career journalist who has been covering the infrastructure sector for more than a decade and a half, Aman writes on the intersection between business and policy.

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Policy Tracker: Why Indian students seem to be getting the rough end of the stick

Economy

27 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Why Indian students seem to be getting the rough end of the stick

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made some ambitious promises in its manifesto for the 2014 general elections. One notable pledge...

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Consumer

22 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Tourists are flocking to India, but that's not the whole story

Earlier this week, Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc. announced that it was acquiring Hotel Leelaventure Ltd’s...

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Manufacturing

18 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Did PM Modi's 'Make in India' really make any difference?

Soon after becoming prime minister in May 2014, Narendra Modi unleashed a policy blitzkrieg of sorts. Among the ambitious schemes...

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Consumer

13 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Have the Modi govt's plans to tackle farm distress come a cropper?

While announcing the interim Union Budget last month, the then acting finance minister Piyush Goyal had said that families owning...

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Economy

08 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: Why India's export woes go beyond a possible trade war with Trump

US president Donald Trump started the week by firing the first shot in what could escalate into a full-fledged trade ......

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Infrastructure

04 March, 2019

Policy Tracker: UDAN struggling to take off, but Adani is lighting up the runway

Strange, yet interesting. That pretty much sums up India’s aviation sector at the moment. Even as dozens of new airports...

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Infrastructure

25 February, 2019

Policy Tracker: India laying highways at a rapid pace, but are investors enthused?

While delivering his interim Budget speech earlier this month, Piyush Goyal called India the world’s fastest-growing highway...

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Finance

21 February, 2019

Why the latest capital infusion into ailing government banks may not help much

On Wednesday, the government approved an infusion of Rs 48,239 crore ($6.8 billion) into 12 state-run banks, as part of ......

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Finance

19 February, 2019

In numbers: How healthy is corporate India's cash flow position?

On 5 February, global rating agency Moody’s Investors Service cut Bharti Airtel’s rating to junk grade. It cited,...

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Finance

12 February, 2019

Surprise entrants, familiar names among India's biggest corporate donors

What’s common to Mukesh Ambani, Anand Mahindra, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Gautam Adani and KP Singh, apart from the fact that...