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Topic: NBFC

RBI Governor calls for market-led solution, dashes bailout hopes for struggling NBFCs

Investors are concerned about the impact of an NBFC collapse on the wider sector and a funding crunch in an economy where growth has slowed to a six-year-low.

Hit by cash crunch at home, NBFCs are paying more for foreign funds

Cash squeeze threatens broader fallout, as higher cost of funds is passed on to merchants getting micro loans & property tycoons looking to roll over debt.

Indian mutual funds continue to shun crisis-hit NBFC sector

Mistrust toward NBFCs that started with IL&FS Group’s default last year has spiralled after DHFL & units of Reliance Capital missed repayments on dues.

RBI launched massive crackdown on NBFCs amid cash squeeze last fiscal

RBI cancelled registrations of 1,851 NBFCs in the year ended March 31, more than 8 times those in the previous year.

Acquittal of Pehlu Khan lynching accused is shameful, will embolden cow vigilantes

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RBI fix for slowing consumption demand — incentives to banks for retail lending

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced a relaxation in risk weights for all consumer loans, which could ensure better credit flow at lower rates.

Crisis-hit NBFC Dewan Housing posts first loss as business grinds to a halt

DHFL has posted its first quarterly loss in more than a decade and missed interest payments even as it tries to sell assets to raise funds.

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.

Eleven stocks, $14 billion erased: A looks at India’s debt woes

The impact of the credit crisis is spreading as founders of most of the companies with dues are selling businesses to survive.

M.K. Narayanan on fresh thinking on Kashmir, and Rajiv Kumar on merits of FDI

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On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

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.