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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Time for private equity funds to bite the bullet in India's infra space

Infrastructure

14 February, 2018

Time for private equity funds to bite the bullet in India's infra space

In 2017, two diametrically opposite acts were at play in the Indian infrastructure space. While the sector attracted record investments ......

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Finance

13 February, 2018

Will macro headwinds knock India of​f​ its growth path?

Calendar 2017 was a year of contradictions for the Indian economy. Even as economic growth slipped in the aftermath of ......

Finance

05 February, 2018

In charts: How bad really is India's bad loans problem?

The issue of bad loans and stressed assets has gained much media attention in the past couple of years. And, ......

Infrastructure

01 February, 2018

Budget 2018: Infra spends at record high, but no new projects announced

Finance minister Arun Jaitley has set aside Rs 5.97 lakh crore for infrastructure spends in his fifth, and the Narendra ......

Finance

01 February, 2018

Budget 2018: Has Modi govt sounded the election bugle?

Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday unveiled a pro-poor, pro-farmer budget ahead of the general elections due in 2019.In the ......

Infrastructure

29 January, 2018

India faces infrastructure investment gap of $526 bn by 2040: Economic Survey

India needs to spend as much as $4.5 trillion to boost its creaky infrastructure by 2040 but will grapple with ......

Economy

29 January, 2018

Budget 2018: Economic survey sees GDP growth picking up in FY19

The Indian economy is likely to grow between 7% and 7.5% in the financial year that begins in April, the ......

Finance

25 January, 2018

Budget 2018: Job creation under scanner after listed cos cut workforce last year

On 23 January, the International Labor Organisation (ILO) said that more than three-fourths of India’s workforce will be vulnerable by ......

Finance

22 January, 2018

Budget 2018: Infra spends may spur capex, but FM Jaitley must woo private sector

Capital expenditure is key to any budgetary exercise. After all, the quantum of capex spent, both by the government, as ......

Finance

17 January, 2018

Budget 2018: Fiscal slippage, spectre of inflation loom large on economy

Finance minister Arun Jaitley will be presenting India’s first post-GST Budget – his fifth and the current dispensation’s last full ......