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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicBank Fraud

Topic: Bank Fraud

After Mallya, Lalit & Nirav Modi, new billionaires on fugitive row — Sandesaras of Gujarat

ED, CBI booked the Sandesaras in a Rs 5,000-crore bank fraud case, which is also linked to a CBI turf war involving two top officers.

A 2016 affidavit filed in Gujarat HC had warned about Mehul Choksi’s escape from India

The affidavit says Choksi is a "most intelligent and powerful influential identity and has hired a whole legal team for the purpose of doing systematic fraud".

Scandals, bad debts at Indian banks threaten economic outlook

India’s nearly $1.7 trillion formal banking sector is coping with $210 billion of problem loans, and some regional banks have been ensnared in fraud scandals.

Punjab National Bank discussed fraud prevention in 2016, but didn’t introduce safeguards

A report to the central government says Punjab National Bank had debated putting in place safeguards to prevent fraud in 2016, but put no systems in place. 

We have not seen the last of bank scams. Put the entire diamond industry under the scanner

Though Rs. 11,000 crores is a large number, it is not a single credit or operations risk event but a bubble built over years. 

TalkPoint: Is it impossible to fix India’s disastrous PSU banks?

Experts weigh in on the astounding 11,000 crore fraud in Punjab National Bank and how it reflects on the state of public sector banks in India.

On Camera

Why Indian and American Hindus must adapt in a proselytising world

Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.