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Saturday, August 30, 2025
TopicForeign funds

Topic: foreign funds

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.

Nirmala Sitharaman’s new steps to revive growth seen falling short

Economists, finance leaders & industry executives raise questions about the effectiveness of the measures and stress on the need for structural reforms.

Modi govt’s tax for super-rich snares unsuspecting foreign investors

Tax officials have suggested that global funds convert themselves from trusts to corporates as a way to avoid paying the higher surcharge.

CBI searches Delhi, Mumbai offices of Indira Jaising & Anand Grover’s Lawyers Collective

Noted lawyer Indira Jaising’s husband, Anand Grover, was booked by CBI for alleged violations in receiving foreign aid for Lawyers Collective.

Shunned at home, NBFCs are paying more for foreign funds

NBFCs have raised more than $2 billion of overseas bonds & loans in 2019, a record compared with the same period in previous years.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.