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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: ILFS

RBI surprises by holding interest rates and shifting to hawkish stance

The six-member monetary policy committee led by RBI Governor Urjit Patel voted 5-1 to keep the repurchase rate at 6.5 per cent.

IL&FS troubles increase as more defaults reported, shows takeover not an instant fix

IL&FS failed to service principal and interest on loans from banks, inter-corporate deposit and commercial papers totalling 33.9 crore rupees due for the period from Sept 30 to Oct 4

The untold story behind Modi government’s shock takeover of IL&FS

The Modi govt had been monitoring IL&FS for two weeks and decision to oust its board was taken by finance minister Arun Jaitley.

Lesson from IL&FS crisis: Indian finance firms need to hold assets that can be collateral

Lenders like IL&FS have amassed large balance sheets but their assets can’t be easily pledged even in normal times.

IL&FS crisis shows easy money era is over in India

Rising borrowing costs are putting pressure on lenders like IL&FS & on debt-focused mutual funds that are liquidating holdings.

India’s pvt sector needs to choose infrastructure that’s worth building & making money off

The messy IL&FS affair reveals India doesn't know a thing about paying for infrastructure.

IL&FS new board will have to get selling its assets right to prevent more angst for India

IL&FS still owns long-term infrastructure financed with short-term funding. New board will need to sell assets to pare $12.6 billion debt.

What the new board of IL&FS needs to do to rescue it

The roadmap for IL&FS recovery may be similar to that laid out for Satyam Computer Services case of 2009.

Averting India’s mini-Lehman moment was the easy part

With polls due next year, and opposition attacking Modi govt for rescuing IL&FS, scope to utilise state-run institutions’ funds may be limited.

Modi govt vows to ensure IL&FS won’t default again

The dramatic move to take control of IL&FS underscores Modi govt's concern that more defaults may spread to other lenders.

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.