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.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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