The great power robberySUDHA MAHALINGAMA study by a Pune-based organisation exposes the culpability of industrial units availing themselves of high-tension and extra high-tension supply in
Power as a commoditySUDHA MAHALINGAMOrissa's experience in implementing power reforms provides a significant commentary on the problems involved in the reform and restructuring process t
An ambitious roadshowSUDHA MAHALINGAMThe New Exploration Licensing Policy, announced recently by the Central government, will integrate India's petroleum sector with the global market. Ho
A worrisome tariff orderSUDHA MAHALINGAMThe Central Electricity Regulatory Commission's order on financial and operational norms for power generators is likely to affect the cash flows as we
Soli Sorabjee and the HindujasSUDHA MAHALINGAM in New DelhiThe minutes of a meeting that Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee had with solicitors and financiers of the Hindujas' power project in Andhra Pradesh raise
The banker and the borrowerSUDHA MAHALINGAMThe 'stock-taking' exercise by the visiting President of the World Bank provides intimations of a course correction in the bank's lending priorities.
Funding the power sectorSUDHA MAHALINGAMTHE power sector appears to be the flavour of the season for the multilateral financing agency, the World Bank, despite the failure of its efforts at
To keep Air-India afloatSUDHA MAHALINGAM in New DelhiThe government has cleared the proposal to privatise Air-India but will this decision enable the airline to come out of the red?
Taking on the corruptSUDHA MAHALINGAM in New DelhiUNDER the stewardship of Nagarajan Vittal, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which was reconstituted through an ordinance 19 months ago, is acqu
For a new sales tax regimeSUDHA MAHALINGAM in New DelhiThe introduction of standardised rates for sales tax across the country is expected to end the diversion of trade from one State to another, but some
A dam and some questionsSUDHA MAHALINGAM in MaheshwarThe sustained popular opposition to the Maheshwar dam, one of 30 large dams being built across the Narmada, raises fundamental questions about the hum
Behemoth studios in the era of pan-Indian films Yash Raj Films used to set trends, not follow them. Can it turn the tide?
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
