Steel companies are taking a battering this year as a crisis in the country’s shadow banking sector fueled a cash crunch, and economic growth slowed to a five-year low.
Insolvency judges’ ruling that Essar creditors whose claims are backed by collateral won’t get preferential treatment can badly damage India’s debt market.
Banks are opposed to certain terms of the Essar Steel sale, which, they say, could lead to higher lending rates, further affecting India's credit woes.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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