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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicCredit rating

Topic: Credit rating

It’s China & upcoming RBI monetary policy that India is concerned about, not US ratings downgrade

Fitch downgraded US government’s credit rating. And while markets across the world, including India, slumped in response, volatility will likely be driven by other factors.

From Uber to Amazon, there is an orgy of rating and qualification happening

We are no longer rated by only the credit reporting agencies, which are subject to extensive federal regulation.

How Indian rating agencies missed the IL&FS mess

India’s credit rating industry has come under scrutiny after firms that assessed IL&FS failed to see the financial troubles brewing at the financier.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.