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Topic: MSMEs

Credit guarantee helps banks take a chance on MSMEs but funding defaulters harms taxpayers

Since MSMEs are important for growth and employment, we need to understand the causes of the credit gap before increasing our reliance on policy interventions.

New cybersecurity rules vital but still a burden, MSMEs say as govt considers extending deadline

In several meetings with IT ministry officials, MSMEs have requested a further deadline extension for compliance with fresh guidelines regarding data breaches.

In Meerut, ‘startup culture’ means hard-to-get loans, low demand, misplaced hope

The government is pushing for ‘entrepreneurship’ in small towns and villages through subsidised loans. Here is how the result looks so far in one Uttar Pradesh district.

Past FTAs ‘very tough’ on India, have discomfort with ‘old mantras’ of globalisation: Jaishankar

Jaishankar said the Modi government is ‘prudent’ on FTAs, adds that trade partners need to have ‘strategic convergences’ and ‘business comforts’ now.

Jalandhar’s Rs 2,000-cr sports goods industry says Covid shut 40% units, govt says no distress

ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.

First Covid, now fuel & food prices: No festive season work or cheer for MSMEs in Delhi-NCR

The festive season, which was expected to drive economic recovery, with a demand hike and income surge, has proven a dud so far, pushing industries to brink in the national capital. 

Demand down, revenue down but costs up: Pandemic takes shine away from UP’s ‘peetal nagri’

Uttar Pradesh's brass, scissors and locks industries all hit by lockdowns, rising input costs & inflation. Small business owners complain of being denied loans under govt schemes for MSMEs. 

‘Where’s Atmanirbhar package?’ — Telangana MSMEs struggle to pay wages, rent for 1-room business

Increasing raw material prices, plummeting demand, delayed payments and high labour charges are posing several hurdles to MSMEs in Telangana.

Locked gates, moss & shrubs tell tale of Covid hit at Maharashtra’s first industrial estate

Thane’s Wagle Estate was the first industrial area that Maharashtra’s MIDC took up for development in 1961. The pandemic has forced many of its units to shut down.

Obesity related to metabolism changes due to processed food, not overeating

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

On Camera

The biggest threat to US dollar is Donald Trump

No trust in China, India still rising, and Europe in decline, help the Trump government dominate the market.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?