Joe Leahy

India in emergency step to unblock trade credit

By Joe Leahy, James Lamont and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi India's central bank took emergency measures at the weekend to avert a growing liquidity crunch affecting the country's estimated $43.7bn of outstanding trade finance....

Rajnath Singh: India's BJP eyes anti-conversion law

Rajnath Singh: India’s BJP eyes anti-conversion law ICC Note: If the following story comes to pass, India will no longer have "safe havens" of states where anti-conversion and anti-Christian laws do not apply. By Joe Leahy and...

Lunch with the FT: Sachin Tendulkar

15-Nov-2008

Lunch with the FT: Sachin Tendulkar By Joe Leahy When I arrive at the Pride Hotel in Nagpur, in the dead centre of India, I wonder whether I’ve come to the right place. This slightly rundown but friendly establishment, opposite...

Lavish pledges as Indian polls hold key to general election

15-Nov-2008

By Joe Leahy in Dantewade, Chhattisgarh The helicopter painted in the orange and white of India's Congress party swoops into a dusty field cordoned off by police. Security is tight: ultra-leftwing guerrillas operate in this...

Indian states key to general election

By Joe Leahy in Dantewade, Chhattisgarh The helicopter painted in the orange and white of India’s Congress party swoops into a dusty field cordoned off by police. “Chhattisgarh is the best,” Rahul Gandhi calls to the waiting...

DoCoMo to pay $2.7bn for Tata arm stake

By Robin Harding in Tokyo and Joe Leahy in Mumbai NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone company by market share, is to pay Rs130.7bn ($2.7bn) for 26 per cent of Tata Teleservices in a deal that highlights the high prices...

India's BJP eyes anti-conversion law

By Joe Leahy and Varun Sood in Raipur India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, the main opposition, is considering legislating against mass religious conversions if it wins the forthcoming general election. The...

Tata chief warns on capital raising

Ratan Tata, chairman of one India's biggest industrial groups, has slammed the brakes on further acquisitions, issuing a stark warning that some parts of the conglomerate face big problems in raising capital

Key Obama ally promises US won't take jobs away

Stephen O'Farrell US senator Joe Leahy reassured employees of Irish-based US multinationals yesterday that their jobs were safe. Fears have been mounting that a Barack Obama presidency will alter US corporation tax regulations...

Private equity reassesses India after investment losses

By Sundeep Tucker and Joe Leahy in Mumbai The world's leading private equity firms are reassessing how they invest in India after racking up huge paper losses buying stakes in listed companies. Firms have struggled to deploy...

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