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Chris Kay

Mumbai Correspondent

Chris Kay is the FT's Mumbai correspondent covering business and finance across India. Before joining the FT in 2024, he worked for thirteen years at Bloomberg News in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
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  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Infosys Ltd
    Indian IT outsourcer Infosys hit with $4bn tax demand

    Leading tech services provider is latest corporate champion to be handed surprise bill by revenue collectors

    People walk in front of a glass fronted building at the Infosys HQ in Bengaluru
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Pakistan
    Pakistan’s banks enjoy soaring profits on interest from mounting government debt

    Analysts say downside is there is little left to lend to private sector

    Women walk past the State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    InterviewIndian politics & policy
    India expands airport facial recognition amid surveillance fears

    Digital initiative chief claims technology can halve queueing times and pledges transparency on personal data

    A passenger uses a facial recognition counter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad in 2019
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessIndian business & finance
    Citi feels the heat over India’s job numbers

    Reaction to forecasts by the bank point to the political sensitivity of research in the country

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    InterviewLarsen & Toubro Ltd
    India must use private defence suppliers more, says Larsen & Toubro

    Conglomerate’s CFO says its capacity far exceeds government orders and rival state-owned producers are ‘inefficient’

    Larsen & Toubro’s high altitude unmanned helicopter displayed at the Defence Expo 2022 in Gandhinagar
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    Are Indian investors sitting on a bubble?

    Millions of India’s citizens have piled into shares and options, egged on by online ‘finfluencers’

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Diamonds and gemstones
    Can the natural diamond market regain its sparkle?

    Some think market for rough stones will bounce back as falling prices for factory produced rivals trigger profitability warnings

    A montage of a diamond and a chart
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Indian politics & policy
    India unveils spending binge to boost Modi allies

    BJP’s budget seeks to tackle joblessness and cut fiscal deficit after shock loss of majority

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    News in-depthIndian politics & policy
    India’s Modi faces budget demands from ‘kingmaker’ allies

    Humbled prime minister must compromise with coalition allies while addressing gloom that led to loss of his party’s majority

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a press conference with the Indian flag in the background
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh top court scales back job quotas that sparked violent unrest

    Quota system had triggered deadly protests that resulted in clashes with security forces

    Armed soldiers in armoured vehicles patrol the streets
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The young investors gambling on Indian stocks

    Millions of India’s citizens have piled into shares and options, egged on by online ‘finfluencers’, but regulators are sounding the alarm

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    ‘Get us more paper’: Indian equity issuance hits record high

    Over $28bn raised in first half, almost triple the amount a year ago

    A delivery person for Swiggy, an Indian food delivery platform
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    Ambani’s big rich Indian wedding brings global elite to Mumbai

    Financial capital set to descend into gridlock during marriage festivities for son of billionaire industrialist

    Anant Ambani poses with fiancée Radhika Merchant
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Gold
    India’s ‘passion for gold’ fades as prices hover near record high

    Some brides switch to artificial jewellery, although richest consumers have not been put off

    A woman checks herself in the mirror as she tries a gold necklace at Senco Gold and Diamonds store on the occasion of Dhanteras in Mumbai
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Hindenburg Research
    Indian regulators allege Hindenburg’s Adani report ‘indulged in unfair trade practices’

    ‘Show cause’ notice reveals short seller worked with US hedge fund Kingdon Capital Management

    Gautam Adani
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    India set for billions of dollars of inflows as bonds join JPMorgan index

    Inclusion of country’s debt in major benchmark could fuel market volatility, analysts warn

    Buildings in Mumbai, India
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    Hyundai plans to list India business unit in one of country’s biggest IPOs

    South Korean carmaker seeks to capitalise on booming demand in world’s third-largest auto market

    An Indian worker rides past parked Hyundai vehicles ready for shipment at a port in Chennai, India
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    ‘Less BS, more jobs’: Indian billionaires face heat of new Modi era

    Powerful tycoons remain central to prime minister’s plans but voters have shown disquiet at inequality

    a montage of images showing Adani, Modi and Ambani in front of Indian bank notes
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Indian politics & policy
    Narendra Modi sworn in as Indian prime minister for third term

    Strongman leader will now depend on coalition allies after weaker election performance by BJP

    Narendra Modi arrives to take the oath as India’s prime pinister during the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in New Delhi
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Space industry
    Billionaires Mittal and Ambani take on Musk in India’s internet space race

    Bharti Airtel’s joint venture with Eutelsat OneWeb could start operating in June

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral., Florida, in December 2023
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    News in-depthDerivatives
    Retail traders push India stock option volumes above S&P 500

    Small investors join trading rush as stock market hits record highs

    A pedestrian passes residential buildings under construction in Mumbai, India
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    The Big Read
    The humbling of Narendra Modi

    The Indian prime minister won a third term but he now has to rely on a delicate coalition and faces a newly empowered opposition

  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Indian election
    The Indian ‘kingmakers’ set to prop up Narendra Modi

    Prime minister’s future government may depend on regional politicians N Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar

    Narendra Modi,  Nitish Kumar N Chandrababu Naidu
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Indian election
    Modi secures allies’ backing for new government after India election setback

    PM forced to rely on smaller allies after losing absolute majority in lower house of parliament

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, poses for a photograph with senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    News in-depthIndian election
    India election strips Modi of his ‘aura of invincibility’

    Loss of ruling party’s parliamentary majority deals stunning blow to prime minister ahead of third term

    Kites bearing images Indian politicians
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