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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Rajiv Mittal’s water tech company is betting on renewed interest in the desalination business taking it to the elusive €1 billion revenue mark and retaining investor faith.
Rajiv Mittal’s quest to make billions from the prospect of increasingly severe water crises around the world is finding takers once again.
Shares of his firm, VA Tech Wabag, have shot up 127% in the past year and are hovering close to their all-time high from back in March 2015. Four brokerages covering the stock have a “buy” recommendation, citing its “strong long-term outlook”.
Now, this euphoria is not new to Wabag. In 2014-15, the stock of India's largest water infrastructure company witnessed an almost 4x jump as investors bought into the idea that there’s big money to be made …
The acquisition of IDBI Bank puts his Fairfax smack dab in the middle of the RBI’s rules on bank ownership. It must now decide whether to sell CSB Bank or merge the two lenders, neither of which will be easy.
Once seen as a threat, global capability centres appear to be becoming a potential growth driver for the country’s IT giants.
Lenders stand to gain a lot more than borrowers in the current challenging market environment
