{"id":439028,"date":"2021-09-29T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439028"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:51:19","slug":"air-india-selloff-entering-last-lap-bids-may-be-opened-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-selloff-entering-last-lap-bids-may-be-opened-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India selloff entering last lap, bids may be opened today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The privatisation process of national carrier Air India is entering the last lap, with the Centre confident of meeting all the defined milestones related to the airline&#8217;s divestment.<\/p>\n<p>Bids could be opened as early as Wednesday, a source involved in the bidding process said, though this could not be independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>ET had earlier reported that the financial bids would be opened by the month-end. <\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that by mid-October, the government would be in a position to announce the winning bidder. <\/p>\n<p>The two bidders, Tata Group and SpiceJet NSE -0.99 %&#8217;s Ajay Singh, were not available for comment. The government, which called bids for a 100% stake in Air India,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privatisation process of national carrier Air India is entering the last lap, with the Centre confident of meeting all the defined milestones related to the airline&#8217;s divestment. Bids could be opened as early as Wednesday, a source involved in the bidding process said, though this could not be independently confirmed. ET had earlier reported that the financial bids would be opened by the month-end. Sources indicate that by mid-October, the government would be in a position to announce the winning bidder. The two bidders, Tata Group and SpiceJet NSE -0.99 %&#8217;s Ajay Singh, were not available for comment. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439028","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}