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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Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy

Finance

26 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Why India needs a more meaningful disinvestment strategy

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for a second five-year term, the government’s policy think-tank Niti...

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Infrastructure

24 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Infrastructure spending to climb but all eyes on discoms' rising debt

Last week, while inaugurating the budget session of parliament, President Ram Nath Kovind said that India will build 35,000 km...

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Infrastructure

19 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Easier bank credit, policy push on real estate sector's bucket list

Earlier this year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was vying for re-election, the Bharatiya Janata Party said in its manifesto...

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Finance

17 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Ayushman Bharat and beyond, here's the healthcare sector's wish list

Cash handouts for farmers and tax sops for the salaried middle class were the major talking points of the interim ......

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Finance

12 June, 2019

Budget 2019: Why reviving job creation, Make in India should top priority list

Just a week after assuming office for a second five-year term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi constituted two key cabinet committees--one...

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Consumer

10 June, 2019

Cash handouts aside, how Budget 2019 can ease farm distress, boost rural consumption

On 31 May, just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath of office for a second term, ......

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Finance

04 June, 2019

What India Inc, taxpayers can expect from Nirmala Sitharaman's maiden budget

Last week, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed Nirmala Sitharaman as India’s new finance minister, a deluge of...

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General

21 May, 2019

Long working hours aside, how productive India Inc employees really are?

In June 2018, Swiss bank UBS said in a report that people in Mumbai work the longest in the world—3,315 ......

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Finance

17 May, 2019

Pay gap: How wide the income disparity really is in India Inc?

In July 2017, a research paper co-authored by renowned economist Thomas Piketty fueled a debate after claiming that income inequality...

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Manufacturing

09 May, 2019

Why Indian auto component makers must brace for headwinds

Last year, private equity giant Blackstone re-entered the auto components sector in India after a three-year gap by buying two...