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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Topic: NPA

Bad bank not just necessary but unavoidable in present situation, says former RBI governor

The standard advantage of a bad bank is the entity taking a decision on sale price is different from the entity accepting that price, former RBI governor D Subbarao said.

Why RBI has picked KV Kamath to restructure loans and kick the can down the road

Fear of probe agencies investigating bad loans left a deep scar on banking officials, raising their risk-averse nature to lending. RBI wants Kamath panel to take care of those fears.

RBI predicts bad loan surge by March 2021, says NPAs will rise to 12.5% from 8.5% now 

According to the RBI’s financial stability report, bad loans may rise to 14.7% if the macroeconomic environment worsens.

Modi govt estimates 15% of Rs 3 lakh crore MSME loans could turn NPA. Banks fear worse

Modi govt has promised 100% credit guarantee to banks and NBFCs to ensure credit flow to MSMEs. But bankers say revival of the economy is crucial to loan performance.

Bad loans of commercial banks down to Rs 9.34 lakh crore in last fiscal, says Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the govt has instituted a comprehensive 4R's strategy to reduce bad loans of banks.

PNB reports another NPA scam of Rs 38 billion, after the massive Nirav Modi fraud last year

Punjab National Bank reported the new fraud to the Reserve Bank of India. The fraud took place at its Chandigarh branch, and in its Hong Kong and Dubai offices.

Banks Board Bureau, Modi govt’s answer to woes of PSU banks, is yet to start delivering

Since 2016, PSBs’ performance has only gone downhill despite Banks Board Bureau’s mandate to reinvent them for greater efficiency, among others.

Supreme Court striking down RBI circular will alter India’s financial & judicial landscape

Supreme Court has made bankruptcy code the RBI’s second option for resolving bad loans, and abandoned the long-held ‘expert body doctrine’ in jurisprudence.

SC only quashed RBI circular on bad loans, insolvency law still hangs over private firms

The IBC, and the RBI’s February 2018 circular, were shocks to the pre-existing credit culture that allowed Indian state to act with impunity.

SC ruling on RBI circular will only delay bad loans recognition & solution

SC judgment will provide temporary relief for banks & companies in stressed sectors but could hurt central bank’s regulatory framework governing bad debts.

On Camera

Did English Language create captive minds? PM’s Macaulay reference is only half-truth

Macaulay’s intervention led to a colonial mentality in several sections of India. But because of English language, it also led to a lot of unintended consequences.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.