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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIL&FS Group

Topic: IL&FS Group

Private equity funds are snapping up bargains in India’s crisis-hit NBFC sector

PE funds have invested about $2 billion this year in NBFCs, which is 50% higher than the average over the last four years.

Debt-ridden IL&FS terminates contract to build India’s longest tunnel in J&K

PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the Zojila tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh Highway in June 2018, but the project has been stalled since November.

IL&FS was sinking but some of its senior management was prospering

IL&FS Employees’ Welfare Trust enriched senior management but the rank and file mostly got hopes.

For a change, TOI and HT on the same page

Your daily news capsule.

Rahul Gandhi should take lessons from his fellow Congressman, says Arun Jaitley

It may be advisable for Rahul Gandhi to get some words of wisdom from Prof. K.V. Thomas, said Jaitley.

India is having its own mini-Lehman moment on 10th anniversary of global financial crisis

IL&FS Group is woefully short of liquidity, with about $500 million in repayments coming due & only about $27 million available.

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.