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A view of the Bombay House, the headquarters of the Tata group of companies situated in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian State of Maharashtra. The building, designed by architect G. Wittet, became the headquarters of the Tata group in July 1924.

Trusts and control

The ownership structure of the Tata group is such that whoever controls the many trusts run by the group controls the business empire.

Mr. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Infocomm, displaying a new handset at the launch of services in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian State of Maharashtra, on December 27, 2002.

Second coming

In the euphoria that has surrounded the Reliance Jio launch, Mukesh Ambani’s previous launch of mobile services 14 years ago provides some sobering th

HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, 09/09/2016: Customers waiting outside one of the stores, which is offering the JIO Mobile Sim Card at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.
Photo: K.V.S. Giri

Voice of Reliance

Reliance Industries unleashes a full-scale war in the mobile business by blurring the divide between voice and data. But its entry as a harbinger of r

Spectrum grab

The conduct of the spectrum auction, which was won by Reliance Jio for its services, raises disturbing questions about whether state policy is availab

NEW DELHI, 13/10/2015: Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan addressing a press conference pushing for the Real Estate Regulatory Bill to prevent malpractices by builders, at Press Club of India in New Delhi on October 13, 2015.
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

‘The spectrum auction was rigged’

Interview with Prashant Bhushan, political activist and lawyer.

Workers assemble cars inside the Hyundai Motor India Ltd. plant at Kancheepuram district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu October 4, 2012. Running around the clock and selling everything it can build, Hyundai Motor's Indian factory is bursting at the seams. But as demand grows and rivals scale up, the car maker has chosen to take its foot off the pedal. Hyundai's strategic decision to focus on quality over quantity, even as its production lines are stretched in India and elsewhere, risks losing hard-won market share and is forcing it to divert output from its plant outside Chennai away from exports to other high-growth markets to meet domestic demand. Picture taken October 4, 2012. To match Analysis HYUNDAI-CAPACITY/ REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)

A killer tax

The euphoria over the Goods and Services Tax masks the deadly assault on tax policy as a means of promoting equity.

BANGALORE, 01/09/2009: Employees working at the newly upgraded state-of-the-art Photovoltaic Manufacturing Facility of 8 MV per annum, at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Electronics Division on Mysore road in Bangalore on September 01, 2009. Photo: K. Murali Kumar

Malfunctioning hub

The promise of the advocates of neoliberalism to position India as a factory for the world remains a pipe dream, thanks to the very policies that they

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan speaks during an interactive meeting with industry and trade organisations organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in Bangalore on June 22, 2016.
India's outgoing central bank governor Raghuram Rajan urged his successor on June 20 to 'stay the course' on pushing down inflation, in his first comments since he announced he was stepping down. The popular Reserve Bank of India chief said in a statement released on June 18 he would be returning to academia when his term as RBI governor finishes in September 2016, ending months of intense speculation over his future. / AFP PHOTO / Manjunath Kiran

Victim of tirade

Raghuram Rajan’s exit following a fusillade from Subramanian Swamy raises questions about the government’s approach to key issues.

In unequal measure

As Karnataka reels under a severe drought, social and economic divides undermine the little relief that the government has provided.

Bengaluru : Police charge the garment workers who were protesting over EPF withdrawal norm, in Bengaluru on Tuesday. PTI Photo (PTI4_19_2016_000263A)

Class outburst

Protests by garment workers over attempts to curb Provident Fund withdrawals bring to light the underside of working-class life in Bengaluru.

A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama City, Monday, April 4, 2016. Panama's president says his government will cooperate 'vigorously' with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world's rich and famous. An international coalition of media outlets Sunday published investigations it said stemmed from the leak of 115 million records kept by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca on behalf of clients. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

The Panama connection

The Panama Papers expose, the biggest leak ever of a database, made possible by a unique journalistic venture, rocks governments, shines a light on po

Threat to citizen rights

Interview with Usha Ramanathan, legal researcher.

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