{"id":401232,"date":"2021-02-19T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401232"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:03:11","slug":"retro-tax-amid-stand-off-cairn-energy-holds-constructive-meeting-with-union-finance-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/retro-tax-amid-stand-off-cairn-energy-holds-constructive-meeting-with-union-finance-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro tax: Amid stand-off, Cairn Energy holds \u2018constructive\u2019 meeting with Union finance secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Cairn Energy\u2019s reported move to recover a $1.4-billion arbitral award in its favour by attaching and seizing Indian assets overseas and New Delhi\u2019s rumoured plans to contest the award, the Edinburgh-headquartered energy company\u2019s chief executive Simon Thomson met Union finance secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey here on Thursday. While the development kept alive hopes of a reconciliation, Thomson, as he came out of the meeting, said the talks were \u2018constructive\u2019, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want to go in and have a conversation and see what the government has got to say, but we look forward to a positive resolution of this,\u201d Thomson had said minutes before the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the company nor the Indian government came out with official statements about the meeting till late evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Cairn Energy\u2019s reported move to recover a $1.4-billion arbitral award in its favour by attaching and seizing Indian assets overseas and New Delhi\u2019s rumoured plans to contest the award, the Edinburgh-headquartered energy company\u2019s chief executive Simon Thomson met Union finance secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey here on Thursday. While the development kept alive hopes of a reconciliation, Thomson, as he came out of the meeting, said the talks were \u2018constructive\u2019, without elaborating. \u201cWe just want to go in and have a conversation and see what the government has got to say, but we look forward to a positive resolution of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}