Tag: Indian Parliament

India’s treasury lost $210 billion in coal scandal.

As per the report, by the Times of India newspaper, the primary beneficiaries were about 100 private and state companies that were handed contracts for 155 coal fields between 2004 and 2009 without going through a competitive bidding process. The report said that $210 billion — five times India’s annual defence budget — was a [...]

Foreign Insurers Set to Invest Heavily in a Cash-Starved India Market

India’s latest move to liberalize its insurance sector may create the long-hoped-for opening for foreign insurance companies to advance into the under-developed market. But while business is thriving, foreign insurers must face reality checks in the form of the country’s limited capacity for infrastructure and system supports, competition from public insurers, operating expenses and investment [...]