News digest: Farm loan waiver, family-run firms, Adani project, and more

Jaitley said there would be no shortfall this year in disinvestment and non-tax revenues

‘States with fiscal space can go for farm loan waivers’
 
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said states were free to announce farm loan waivers if they had the fiscal space, but remained non-committal on the question of a national farm loan waiver scheme as the Centre was facing a tight fiscal deficit situation. Read more
 
Vedanta draws up $4-bn plan for Electrosteel
 
Diversified metals and mining major Vedanta Resources plans to pump about $4 billion into newly acquired Electrosteel Steels to scale up its capacity from the existing 1.5 million tonne per annum to 7