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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

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.