An INR3,000-crore question: Will Go First fly again?

If Go First is not quickly towed back onto the runway from the current mess, or the legal proceedings drag on like in the case of Jet Airways, banks may end up spending thousands of crores just to keep the grounded airline alive.

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12 mins readBy Tarun Shukla

Green tech

UltraTech, Dalmia push ahead with a concrete plan for green cement. But are there any takers?

India is the world’s largest cement producer after China. Globally, the cement industry is among the top industrial emitters of CO2. While Indian cement companies are looking to reduce their carbon footprint with blended cement, renewable power, and advanced technologies, high production costs, weak demand, and lack of subsidies pose hurdles to greening of the sector.

12 mins readBy Richa Sharma

Insurance

Inflated bills, ghost hospitals: What IRDAI has on its plate as it attends to health insurance woes

Health insurance major Star Health put around 100 hospitals in excluded providers’ list in Ahmedabad after it found their involvement in fraudulent practices. This irked Ahmedabad’s prominent hospital association that threatened to discontinue the cashless claim facility. The clash between insurance companies and hospitals is back. Here’s what IRDAI is doing to solve such relapsing tiffs.

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12 mins readBy Kumud Das & Isha Trivedi

Investing

Tracing the paper trail: Multibagger paper stocks hinge on demand, prices and the demise of plastic

Most listed stocks in the segment such as West Coast Paper, Andhra Paper, JK Paper, Seshasayee Paper and Boards, Orient Paper and Pudumjee Paper — all have posted multibagger returns in the last three years. What next for India’s paper producers? Will the stocks’ rally continue?