manufacturing
14 ARTICLES
India's industrial output grows by 1.2% in May, lowest in nine months
The slowdown follows mining and electricity contractions as well as anaemic growth in the manufacturing output.
30 Jun 2025
L&T scales up its manufacturing for space exploration
The infra giant is building the PSLV in partnership with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics as well as other equipment for ISRO’s space programmes.
05 Mar 2025
India’s Faustian deal with Tesla
In paving the way for Tesla to sell its cars in the country with reduced duties, India comes across as partisan and a country that can be bullied into acting against its own interests.
21 Feb 2025
Hero Motors withdraws draft papers for Rs 900 crore IPO
Filed in August, the DRHP proposed a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 500 crore and an offer-for-sale component of Rs 400 crores.
07 Oct 2024
Why Ford is returning to manufacturing in India
The auto giant has only committed to manufacturing cars at its Chennai plant without any clear plans to actually sell those vehicles in the country.
18 Sept 2024
Can including garments save India’s disastrous textiles PLI scheme?
A slowdown in exports and high thresholds for beneficiaries may have contributed to the initiative being a non-starter so far. Extending it to garment makers has the potential to change that.
02 Jul 2024
Gautam Adani wants a big role in the defence sector
Relying on a string of acquisitions and a liberalized equipment procurement policy, his Adani group could emerge as a key player in defence contracts.
21 Sept 2022
Inside Ninety One Cycles’s premium bike dream
The seven-year-old company has plans to manufacture premium bicycles in India at affordable prices. Can it take on bigger, established players?
23 Mar 2022
The banker villains in the ABG Shipyard fraud saga
It would seem Rishi Agarwal is India’s newly minted master fraudster. In making him the fall guy, the lenders to the company are craftily avoiding the spotlight on their role in the fraud.
18 Feb 2022
The promise of Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget
By allocating thousands of crores of rupees for building roads, houses and ensuring tap water supply, the finance minister has rekindled hopes of fast-paced growth. What could go wrong?
02 Feb 2022