The government is wary about any blowback in the proposed rifle production project in the backdrop of Congress levelling charges of “crony capitalism” in the way Reliance Defence was chosen as the main offsets partner of Dassault Aviation in the Rs 59,000 crore contract for 36 French Rafale jets.

Former Ranbaxy Laboratories promoter and founder of Fortis Healthcare, Shivinder Singh, has dragged his elder brother Malvinder and Religare Enterprises’ former CEO and MD Sunil Godhwani to court for “oppression and mismanagement’’ of family businesses.

While underlining the importance of the ‘2+2’ dialogue between US’s Mike Pompeo and Jim Mattis and India’s Sushma Swaraj and Nirmala Sitharaman, the government has said there was no question of acting under any compulsion from the US on the issue of energy imports from Iran.

​Pompeo and defence secretary Jim Mattis are headed to India for the talks on Thursday with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is the inaugural 2+2 dialogue between the two countries.

In a decision that will offer relief to patients suffering from Johnson & Johnson’s faulty hip implants, the Indian drug regulator has asked the global health major to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to all those who had received the implants, in keeping with recommendations made by a government panel.