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Thursday, December 4, 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

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.