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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIL&FS Financial Services

Topic: IL&FS Financial Services

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

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.

IL&FS seeks insolvency cover to avoid bankruptcy amid string of defaults

IL&FS has missed more than 5 debt payments since August and is trying to settle the matter with creditors outside the insolvency courts.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

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.