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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: ILFS

India must allow its shadow banks to suffer some pain right now

RBI seems convinced that India’s shadow banks need to clean up their act -- and they won’t if they get access to easy money now.

The glimmer of hope in the $12.8 billion bankruptcy of IL&FS

We must kill IL&FS's toxic culture by dismembering it, writes Andy Mukherjee.

India is considering the outright sale of IL&FS

Other options include splitting businesses according to verticals and disposing them off to several buyers or injecting  liquidity at group level

India’s banking liquidity crunch is extending to home developers

This could derail a nascent recovery in the property sector.

The clock is ticking on the patience of Indian equity funds investors

Of 416 open-ended, onshore equity funds, 401 have lost money. Imagine the peril if investors give up on funds sitting on hard-to-liquidate portfolios.

Ahead of earnings season, stock market rebounds from a 6-month low

After Sensex dropped to 23.4 Tuesday, some investors judged the selloff as excessive which rebounded Indian stocks. Mumbai: Indian stocks rebounded as some investors judged...

New lenders to fill in cash crunch triggered by IL&FS defaults

Alternative lenders are looking to fund companies that are too small to borrow from banks & have relied on NBFCs.

IL&FS must die for its infrastructure projects to live

IL&FS is an unwieldy, opaque hydra. More than size, it’s the diffuse nature of its operations that should worry its new directors.

IL&FS effect slams brakes on runaway growth of non-bank finance companies

RBI is looking at strengthening guidelines for non-bank lenders to avoid rollover risks after the IL&FS defaults.

IL&FS crisis shows India doesn’t have a clue how to pay for infrastructure

Modi govt doubled down on spending on roads & railways, hoping investment would pay for itself in a revival of private sector activity. It hasn’t.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.