Lafarge

Stake sale buzz: JP Associates looking to ease debt burden

The Aditya Birla Group (Ultratech) and France's Lafarge are in talks to buy out JP Associates' cement plants in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.

Lafarge in talks with PE firms to sell 20% stake in India unit

French cement maker Lafarge is in talks with private equity and financial firms to raise about Rs 6,000 crore by selling around a 20-25 percent stake in its India unit in order to fund its expansion

Now, Holcim-Lafarge deal under CCI lens. Here's why

Exercising its rarely-used powers for the second time in less than three months, fair trade watchdog CCI has put another mega merger deal -- between Holcim and Lafarge -- under public scrutiny after prima facie finding it could hurt competition in Indian cement market.<br />

SC refuses modification of earlier order on 'green regulator'

Supreme Court on Monday said it will not alter its earlier 2011 direction asking the Ministry of Environment and Forests to constitute a 'Green Regulator' for monitoring environmental issues in country.

How Mumbai's pucca house dream got a quick fix

In Mumbai, where 60 percent of the population builds for itself, a cement company has changed the construction paradigm and given those in slums a real, quick shot at middle-classdom — a pucca house.