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Tuesday, November 25, 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

Anand Gandhi is taking his biggest moonshot from Goa— vaanars, rakshasis, manushyas

Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.