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Saturday, August 9, 2025
TopicBad debt

Topic: bad debt

Let them eat tomato soup, and how to walk into a debt trap feat. Shinde, Fadnavis & Ajit Pawar

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

UNDP urges debt repayment breaks as global poverty rates rise

G20 finance ministers meeting in India next week will discuss poverty, along with reforming the world's top multilateral institutions and the international debt architecture.

Why RBI has picked KV Kamath to restructure loans and kick the can down the road

Fear of probe agencies investigating bad loans left a deep scar on banking officials, raising their risk-averse nature to lending. RBI wants Kamath panel to take care of those fears.

Why lower borrowing costs can’t save India’s crisis-hit NBFCs

Worries are mounting that bad debt at NBFCs may rise as the world’s strictest lockdown hammered India’s business and left millions jobless.

Bangladeshi banks are struggling with a bad debt problem & it only threatens to get worse

Bangladesh’s central bank introduced an amnesty program to help delinquent borrowers clean up their books but this is threatening to overwhelm banks.

Eleven stocks, $14 billion erased: A looks at India’s debt woes

The impact of the credit crisis is spreading as founders of most of the companies with dues are selling businesses to survive.

NCLTs, meant to resolve the bad debt mess in days, are understaffed and overburdened

The NCLTs have helped resolve insolvency & bankruptcy proceedings involving more than Rs 80,000 crore in 2018, but many big-ticket cases drag on.

NBFC crisis is over but problem remains, says HDFC Bank chief Aditya Puri

The worst of the NBFC problems are over but it will be another 12 to 18 months before liquidity issues are resolved, HDFC Bank’s Puri says.

Bad debts & NPA have declined while loan recovery has picked up: FM Jaitley

He also said that recoveries, lending ability of banks and credit growth are all improving.

Deep in debt, Videocon blames Modi’s India, Supreme Court and Brazil

State Bank of India filed an insolvency petition against Videocon. The TV maker filed an appeal to get back control, blamed India and Brazil for bad debt pile.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.