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Monday, November 17, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Vijay Shekhar Sharma and the case of really incompetent blackmailers

Paytm’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma was allegedly targeted by one of his most trusted lieutenants for millions in ransom.

Hunt for Lion Air black boxes shows how some aviation technology is still dated

In an era when smartphones automatically back up to the cloud, flight recorders don’t transmit data & need to be physically hauled from the deep.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley meets Urjit Patel as rift widens

RBI under Patel has been pushing for more powers to clean up bad debts, but the Modi government wants banks to continue lending

India is considering the outright sale of IL&FS

Other options include splitting businesses according to verticals and disposing them off to several buyers or injecting  liquidity at group level

Neither New Delhi nor Beijing should take Colombo for granted

Sri Lanka is not ready to become another front in an India-China cold war for control of the Indian Ocean.

Lion Air jet’s plunge from the sky is unlike one experts have seen

Flight JT610 went down from 4,850 feet altitude in just 21 seconds, according to data compiled by FlightRadar24.

5 reasons why the RBI and Modi govt are at loggerheads

From a banking crisis to interest rates, the RBI has often found itself on opposing sides to the Modi government this year.

We might be headed towards a massive showdown between Narendra Modi govt and Urijit Patel’s RBI

Patel is under pressure for further tightening the screws on undercapitalised banks and errant corporate borrowers that are worried they may lose prized assets.

India’s banking liquidity crunch is extending to home developers

This could derail a nascent recovery in the property sector.

India may allow some imports from China to be settled in yuan

The plan would enable direct convertibility between the rupee and yuan and will help cut transaction and hedging costs.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.