Page 4 - Year Ender 2018

Rural distress 2018: False cures galore

Rural distress is real and its causation is shrouded in unsubstantiated myths. Finding realistic and practical solutions needs a clearing of these cobwebs, not the hubris of campaign rhetoric

Year of reckoning for India Inc: AirAsia's image took a nosedive in 2018

In 2019, AirAsia India will reach the 20-aircraft mark

India stood up for global issues, boosted leadership image at UN in 2018

As the winds of polarisation and populism gathered momentum in 2018, India vowed that it will never weaken the multilateral mechanism

Rewind 2018: Tough regulatory regime for pharmaceutical industry

The falling rupee, however, helped firms offset the impact of input cost hikes in the second quarter

Year of reckoning: IDFC First Bank has a retail edge with V Vaidyanathan

V Vaidyanathan is a retail veteran having been retail head at ICICI Bank

2018 saw convergence of telecom business with media and entertainment

The new challenge has also compelled telcos like Jio and Airtel to straddle the content space

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Flipkart in Walmart's cart for $16 billion

Binny Bansal's exit gave the fairy tale valuation story another twist

Year of reckoning for India Inc: HUL-GSK's Rs 317-bn deal a market booster

Unilever kept its sights at its target despite the odds stacked against the deal with GSK Consumer

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Jet Airways lost over Rs 25 bn in H1FY19

Jet and Etihad have a long association, which dates much before the 2013 strategic partnership

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Sun Pharma saw its valuations sag in 2018

Dilip Shanghvi did not disclose details of loans citing business sensitivity

Year of reckoning for India Inc: For Paytm, 2018 was more bitter than sweet

For Paytm, rest of 2018 has been mostly about fire-fighting and damage control

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Chanda Kochhar saga is still far from over

ICICI Bank's then MD & CEO Chanda Kochhar abruptly sought early retirement

2019 to see higher quality PE deals, drop in their number: Harsha Raghavan

Opportunities abound for operationally-oriented PE investors

Indian private equity market will remain robust: Year-end prediction

Neeraj Bharadwaj, Managing Director of Carlyle Asia Partners, writes about the future of India's equity market.

Year of reckoning for India Inc: YES Bank saw 4 board-level exits in 2018

There is still no clarity on the timeline for peace between the two groups

Economy to formalise in 2019; growth coming too: Year-end prediction

Rupen Jhaveri, managing director, Private Equity, KKR India, makes his forecast for the economy in 2019.

Year of reckoning for India Inc: How Kingfisher became Mallya's undoing

There's a strong possibility that Mallya will be brought back to India

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Aircel-Maxis case to stay on front pages

Chidambaram has been interrogated several times and been granted several applications for anticipatory bail

Year of reckoning for India Inc: Fortis Healthcare remains in the sick bay

Fortis had declassified the Singh brothers as promoters

Year of reckoning for India Inc: IL&FS default's domino effect on NBFCs

In October, the government sacked the earlier board and appointed a new board led by banker Uday Kotak to set the IL&FS house right