{"id":18074,"date":"2026-03-09T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/?p=18074"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:01:45","slug":"lucky-numbers-and-collusion-how-an-indian-cement-cartel-came-unstuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/?p=18074","title":{"rendered":"Lucky numbers and collusion: how an Indian cement cartel came unstuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>India&#039;s largest oil explorer, ONGC, uncovered a decade-long cement price-fixing cartel involving Dalmia Bharat, India Cements, and Shree Digvijay. The companies allegedly colluded on bids, even citing numerology for identical pricing, and attempted to oust foreign competitors. A five-year probe by the CCI found substantial evidence of these anti-competitive practices.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/realty.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/cement\/cement-cartel-scandal-indian-firms-busted-for-price-fixing\/129337834\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#039;s largest oil explorer, ONGC, uncovered a decade-long cement price-fixing cartel involving Dalmia Bharat, India Cements, and Shree Digvijay. The companies allegedly colluded on bids, even citing numerology for identical pricing, and attempted to oust foreign competitors. A five-year probe by the CCI found substantial evidence of these anti-competitive practices. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestate.thehonanews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}