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

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...

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Economy

08 February, 2019

In numbers: Have mid-sized companies been job creators during the Modi years?

Jobs data has created a flutter in India over the past couple of weeks. The government has been accused of suppressing ......

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TMT

07 February, 2019

Does Amazon's stake rejig in JV with Narayana Murthy pass FDI test?

E-commerce giant Amazon is said to have more than halved its stake in Cloudtail, one of the largest sellers on ......

Economy

04 February, 2019

FDI equity inflows decline 11% for April-September period

Foreign direct investment (FDI) equity inflows in India declined 11% year-on-year in dollar terms for the first half of the ......

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Finance

04 February, 2019

How budget proposals on stamp duty will affect PE and VC funds

On Friday, acting finance minister Piyush Goyal delivered what is perhaps the most populist budget in the five years that ......

Finance

01 February, 2019

Budget 2019: Modi govt unveils tax sops, farmer income scheme in re-election bid

India will breach its fiscal deficit target for the current financial year, stand-in finance minister Piyush Goyal said while...

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Economy

31 January, 2019

Could doubts over India's economic and jobs data erode investor confidence?

Earlier this week, two of the country’s top statisticians--PC Mohanan, the chief of the National Statistical Commission...

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Infrastructure

30 January, 2019

Policy Tracker: Why India may not meet its ambitious renewable energy targets

In early 2015, less than a year after winning a landslide election victory, the Narendra Modi government dramatically increased...

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Economy

25 January, 2019

Ahead of polls, does Modi govt have room to offer sops to large firms, investors?

In February 2015, finance minister Arun Jaitley had said in the second budget of the Narendra Modi government that the ......