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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicCash crunch

Topic: cash crunch

Cash crunch will worsen India’s bad loans mess, already the worst in the world

Failure to slash stressed assets, cash crunch in NBFCs, delays in bankruptcy process are adding to challenges faced by banks as they tidy up balance sheets.

Hit by cash crunch at home, NBFCs are paying more for foreign funds

Cash squeeze threatens broader fallout, as higher cost of funds is passed on to merchants getting micro loans & property tycoons looking to roll over debt.

A bailout for Jet Airways will fill Indian skies with zombie airlines

Air India is the original zombie, infected by a govt bailout. If Jet is bailed out, then the next firm will need one too & the infection will spread.

India’s ‘animal spirits’ wake up as cash crunch begins to ease

An overall activity indicator measuring 'animal spirits' of the Indian economy moved two notches up in November from a month ago.

DLF sees only listed developers surviving India’s cash crunch

‘Weaker balance sheets are going to fall off’

New lenders to fill in cash crunch triggered by IL&FS defaults

Alternative lenders are looking to fund companies that are too small to borrow from banks & have relied on NBFCs.

‘Risky’ cash crunch pushes the government to defend scam-hit banks

Reasons for the squeeze range from farm spending to looming elections, but its roots lie in Modi’s 2016 decision to overnight void 86 percent of currency in circulation?

Last Laughs: ATMs go dry across India, Shiv Sena’s unlikely to take Amit Shah’s olive branch

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

TalkPoint: Why are several states still facing cash shortages, 17 months after demonetisation?

Experts weigh in on the cash crunch in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

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.