Rao exuded confidence that his party will win 90-plus seats in the 119-member assembly and will not take support from other parties.
New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad airports are among world's best.
Vistara starts flying in India.
A ministry spokesperson said he wasn't aware of the development.
Fix India's real estate sector. Fix India's public sector banks, advises Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality". Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath report.
While questions may arise over the sheer dominance of a single corporate group in running airports in the country, it pretty much fits into the government's plan to get out of this space and earn revenue without working for it.
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
G V Krishna Reddy, Chairman, talks to Business Standard about his plans.
Under the hybrid-till model, a portion of non-aeronautical revenue (commercial revenue) at the airport is taken into consideration while fixing the landing and parking charges, user fees and other aeronautical charges.
Indian companies struggle to escape debt burden as profit slows.
If the government is asking a maximum price for Air India but asks to keep old personnel, it will not match.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Companies write off investments, shed assets as initial projections go haywire
The panel also recommended deduction of bank guarantee of four mines, including one given jointly to the world's largest steel producer ArcelorMittal and GVK Powers, an official statement said.
The committee is considering 1,300 names for this year's awards from which it is likely to select 120.
The Union government has threatened to cancel coal block allocations of as many as 17 companies for failure to develop those allotted to them years before. These include big companies such as Tata Iron and Steel, Sterlite Energy, GMR Energy, ArcelorMittal India, Reliance Energy, GVK Power, Lanco Group and Rungta Mines.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The ones chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati.
Sale at acquisition price may have been prompted by slow coal traffic and fall in prices.
With six airports handed over to the Adani group for 50 years, the government is now all set to hand over another 25 airports to private players in a bid to 'monetise' them. Official figures reveal that since 2017-18, the government has spent and will be spending Rs 14,500 crore on significantly revamping infrastructure at most of these airports before handing them over to private players. The Airports Authority of India (AAI), which operates these airports for the government, has spent billions of rupees in building new terminal buildings, runways, reinforcing taxiways, upgrading aircraft landing systems, radars and a host of other heavy duty and capital intensive infrastructure works.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on an appeal by Anil Ambani firm Reliance Airport Developers challenging the Delhi high court verdict, which upheld the government's decision to allot modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
The company is withdrawing from the blocks due to delays in clearances.
Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of Reliance Airport Developers challenging the government's decision to allot modernisation works of Delhi and Mumbai Airports to GMR and GVK led consortia.
Ajit Mishra answers reader queries on the stock market.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
'The growth drivers are mostly invisible, but the growth is undeniable at least for now,' notes Debashis Basu.
The UPA Government is trying to push through the second wave of airport privatisation before the elections and the controversial elements of this process threaten to harm the sector.
Mining baron Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group has bid for the most number of 14 coal mines out of 23 on offer in the first round of auction which also have aggressive bids by Aditya Birla Group, Adani and Naveen Jindal group, but was shunned by foreign players.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Who is to take their place? Will a new generation of entrepreneurs start up with better business sense, or at least better luck? But the so-called unicorns are mostly copy-cat entrepreneurs whose cash flow is funded by overseas (including Chinese) money, notes T N Ninan.
Pawan Verma contended that PSU banks are influenced to give loans to the people who are not able to repay them.
In a departure from its stand, the government has decided to go ahead with the privatisation of the four airports.
SC judges suspected a lack of objective criteria in the selection.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Indian CEOs might like to make some serious course correction.
Court documents show that the Kerala government, whose case was treated as the 'lead case' among all the petitions filed against Adani, made four allegations to convince the court to cancel the contract for the Thiruvanathapuram airport. The state's legal team couldn't substantiate most of these allegations with documentary proof and its self-defeating arguments in court failed to convince the judges to cancel the contract given to Adani. The battle for the Thiruvananthapuram airport between the Communist-led Kerala government, the Adani group and the Modi government over the past year hasn't had a dull moment since the proceedings began. Claims of a smoking gun turned out to be a damp squib, says Sai Manish.
Slots, parking bays unavailable at major airports
Union ministry of home affairs changed its mind and gave bid clearance for Hiranandani Developers and its consortium partner, Zurich Airport
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