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Sunday, February 22, 2026
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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

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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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.