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Topic: MSMEs

Highway projects worth Rs 15 lakh crore to start in next 2 yrs, MSME package soon: Gadkari

Union Road, Highways & MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari says saving jobs in small enterprises is essential to protecting a majority of India’s people.

Wage support, loan relief, interest-free working capital — govt plans lockdown aid for MSMEs

The package for MSMEs is likely to be announced next week even as hectic parleys are on between finance ministry & PMO over its contours.

Modi govt plans stimulus for MSMEs and unorganised sector, but no ‘big bang’ package likely

No immediate relief planned for big industries due to limited fiscal resources, but NBFCs could get some respite, govt officials say.

RBI gives another big bonanza, this time to NBFCs, stressed borrowers, rural sector, MSMEs

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das says with inflation falling, there is more policy space available to address growth and financial stability amid Covid-19 concerns.

Raja Mohan says Trump will not meddle in Kashmir & Sreeram Chaulia on his Twitter game

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from C Raja Mohan, Mahesh Vyas, Lekha Chakraborty, Jaimini Bhagwati & many others.

Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2020 must make MSME lending a core business activity of banks

The Union Budget 2020 should focus on creating a coherent and viable policy framework for lending to MSMEs, including making it a core business activity for banks.

PMC fiasco shows why it’s time to pull the plug on urban cooperative banks

Rather than waste resources on recovery and sustenance of urban cooperative banks, focus can be on articulating a credit disbursement mechanism.

YV Reddy questions Fin Commission mandate on defence funding, K Sujatha Rao on new medical bill

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Good NBFCs’ owners should send a signal to the debt market, put skin in the game

If promoters bring in additional equity into their NBFCs, this will send a powerful signal of their trust in their own businesses.

Southeast Asia’s biggest bank DBS bets on India to reduce reliance on Singapore

The DBS group wants to tap Indian consumers by bolstering loans to reduce reliance on Singapore from which it derived 62% of its revenues in 2018.

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The key difference between India and China’s response to Gen-Z protests in Nepal

China is desperate to keep Communist Nepal ally intact. India must worry.

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?