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Sunday, November 9, 2025
TopicIndian Banks

Topic: Indian Banks

Criminal cases for irregularities – Clean-up of banking sector or witch hunt?

On Wednesday, the CEO and director of the Bank of Maharashtra were booked in a Rs 3,000-crore default case involving real estate developer DSK Group. The Indian Banks’ Association has condemned the arrests of bankers. Experts weigh in.

India’s bad bank backers are badly wrong

With general elections due next year, the bad bank idea looks like a politically expedient proposal of dubious economic merit. Bad ideas keep returning to...

$1-billion rush seen for HDFC bank as foreigners get last chance to buy shares

HDFC will close the window that permits foreigners to buy shares of India's most-valuable lender soon, which is resulting in a surge in buying. 

The world’s best and worst bank returns can be found in India

Despite India's state-run banks being in a rundown condition, the country's rich private banks are keeping investors' belief alive in the Indian economy.

ICICI Bank’s love for its CEO is testing the limits

Chanda Kochhar showed a lack of judgment in not recusing herself from the committee that cleared the loan to Videocon. ICICI, with a history of prior bank runs, can't afford a leader who's in the news for all the wrong reasons. 

One of the world’s largest distressed debt investors eyes India’s $210 billion bad loans

Oaktree is looking to lend directly to companies in India and also invest in bad loan portfolios, in sectors including energy and infrastructure.

Privatising sectors isn’t enough, public companies need to be told to perform or die

While privatising markets benefits customers, the system must accept the hard budgetary constraints on the public sector entities in these markets.

Rotomac bank fraud loan wasn’t for Vikram Kothari’s pen business but for ‘importing’ wheat

CBI has arrested and registered a case against Kothari and his family; the total amount of the fraud is alleged to be Rs 3,695 crore.

On Camera

I am a dog lover, but we don’t know how to win the war on strays

We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.