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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

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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.

On Camera

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.