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Friday, August 29, 2025
TopicBad debts

Topic: bad debts

Kotak Mahindra Bank posts 10% decline in profits as it steps up provisions for bad loans

Suvashree Ghosh -
Indian banks are bracing for a surge in bad debts as an economic lockdown triggers mass unemployment and leaves many companies facing bankruptcy.

RBI injected liquidity after Franklin funds crisis but banks are still not borrowing

Rahul Satija -
Lenders have borrowed only about 5% of an RBI emergency funding line as they grapple with rising bad debt amid the coronavirus pandemic & lockdown.

Modi govt’s plan to sell yen debt has one more hurdle: It’s too much

Chikafumi Hodo -
The size of yen global bonds Modi govt plans to issue may have to be revised as it could be too much for Japanese investors to stomach.

RBI cracks down — banks fined Rs 109 cr this year, up from Rs 96 crore in 2018

Remya Nair -
The penalties imposed on commercial banks by RBI in the first seven months of this calendar year are 395 per cent higher than the total for 2017.

India’s biggest convertible-note defaulter Suzlon misses deadline to repay $172 million

Anurag Joshi -
Suzlon Energy has slumped after India’s shift to auctions for building wind projects increased competition and diluted the company’s market share.

Andhra Bank, SBI, UBI among top PSU banks with over 70% NPA from industry in FY19

Remya Nair -
Finance ministry data shows Andhra Bank had highest share of industry bad debts at 86%. UBI and Indian Bank followed at 78% and 74%, respectively.

NBFCs have a new crisis coming with huge wall of maturing debt

Anurag Joshi -
NBFCs have a record Rs 1.1 trillion of local-currency bonds due next quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Fund manager who predicted India’s credit crisis still sees risks

Subhadip Sircar -
A string of corporate defaults suggests worst of the liquidity shortage & soaring funding costs could come back, according to IDFC’s Suyash Choudhary.

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Opinion

India needs a clear Balochistan strategy. ‘Enemy of my enemy’ approach won’t work

Ilya Roubanis -
Confronting only secular insurgents in Pakistan, while overlooking jihadist groups operating from Iran, will do little to change the broader strategic equilibrium. History underlines this point.

Bihar is a state of opportunities, not challenges. Land record portal to water atlas

What welfare scheme ghosts, fakes and deads teach us about EC voter list row

Economy

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

Heena Fatima -
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Defence

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Javaria Rana -
Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

National Interest

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Shekhar Gupta -
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.

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