Business & Economy Stories
How Air India became Tata’s toughest test
Air India’s losses in 2025-26 at INR27,000 crore are the highest ever recorded in its 94-year-old history. In all, Air India has lost INR55,000 crore since Tatas took over the airline. Will these complicate final years of N Chandrasekaran’s tenure as Tata Sons chairman?
- Tarun Shukla
- ET Prime
‘Why Tata Sons should not be listed’
Former Tata Sons vice chairman argues an IPO can undermine the company’s special role in the group, and may not unlock much value
Woo Investors, Go Electric
To increase resilience, massively scale up renewables, electrify transport, and make India attractive for world's best companies
Let The Rupee Do Its Work
Falling exchange rate can curb imports more effectively than austerity measures. Don't intervene in forex market
'I am a crisis manager. I’ve seen contract disputes become FIRs overnight'
Business in India can turn personal very fast. Sometimes, one soured partnership is all it takes for the police to enter the story
- Vineet Relia
- ET CONTRIBUTORS
Gulf War no blip. It’s time to take some hard decisions on fertiliser ‘revdis’
The govt should decontrol the price of all fertilisers and instead give all farmers a flat grant of Rs 5,000, paid into their bank accounts
After Trump tariff, is Indian aviation next US target?
With IndiGo’s operational collapse in December, Air India’s fatal crash in Ahmedabad and SpiceJet’s engineering and salary-payment issues, US aviation regulator FAA has once again become concerned about oversight standards in Indian aviation.
- Tarun Shukla
- ET Prime
8 charts that explain 3-year backstory behind PM Modi's austerity appeal
The PM wants us to use public transport, shift to electric vehicles, work from home, take fewer vacations abroad, and reduce gold purchases. The reason isn't as sudden as you might think
- Richa Gandhi
- TNN
Calcutta’s New Chromosome: Blueprint For Bengal
Sixty years of leftism & quasi-leftism killed the city & state’s economic vitality. But a revival isn’t hard. Policy needs to build on moribund industrial bases & stock exchange. Plus, prioritise learning English
Pricing Our Way Out
GOI should let the economy adjust to new energy market realities, and raise pump prices. Lower domestic fuel consumption will also mean less dollar demand & help shore up the rupee
How bad is India’s import bill that the PM is asking Indians to cut back?
Fuel, gold, edible oil, foreign travel, and fertilisers — how much do they cost India, and how much do they matter right now?
- Team TOI Plus
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM
Decoding Modi’s Economy Message
He’s basically preparing the country for tough decisions GOI has to take. Aside from fuel price hikes, there may be some mild curbs. But extravagant poll promises by all winning parties, including BJP, make economic management that much tougher
Can the government still afford to keep fuel prices unchanged?
India is the only major oil importing country to have not raised prices through the West Asia crisis. With polls now over, the government may have no choice but to pass the cost of rising crude to to the consumer
- Pranab Dhal Samanta
- ET Bureau
War Or Not, There’ll Always Be Cake
Desi consumption will hold ground, because non-rich still want to spend.
On ATF, Don’t Miss The Plane Truth
Global oil prices are beyond India’s control but a tangle of govt interventions that have left Indian aviation structurally fragile. These demand correction.
Who is Claire Mazumdar – the 37-year-old set to take over Rs 59,000-cr Biocon
Why Claire Mazumdar? Because, according to her aunt and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, "I think she has proved to me that she can run a company."
- Agencies
India buys the gold. Why doesn’t it set the price?
India holds one of the world’s largest privately owned stocks of gold. Bullion exchanges can be a strong pillar to invite that gold sitting idle in cupboards.
- Somasundaram PR
- ET Prime
We Make Bats, We Don’t Call The Shots
Sports goods manufacturing in India has huge economic potential. Yet, Pakistan’s Sialkot outperforms us. For more clusters like Jalandhar & Meerut, policies, investments & infra need to happen in tandem
In Money Heists, Bad Guys Are Adaptive. So Must Be Good Guys
RBI has proposed sound safeguards for digital payments. But if these are to work, real-time intelligence infrastructure has to provide the real judgement, with static rules serving as backstops
For India To Be Strong, Indians Must Kindly Adjust
Country needs time to build up domestic capacities, till then reduce dependence on those ‘perfect’ imports