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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicPublic Sector Banks

Topic: Public Sector Banks

Does India need PSU banks, asks Subbarao, UAPA Bill ‘recipe for abuses’ says Gautam Bhatia

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

Public sector banks set to ‘fly’, but rupee loses strength

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Merger of banks raises more questions than solutions it offers India’s slowing economy

Consolidation of banks reduces competition, raises fears of cartelisation on interest rates and reduces the hope of privatisation.

50 yrs of nationalisation: Is Modi govt worsening PSU banks’ problems or resolving them?

Fifty years ago, on 19 July 1969, the Indira Gandhi government had nationalised 14 banks. Even today, PSUs control a substantial percentage of the deposits.

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.

To address bad loans, govt asks RBI to identify public sector banks that can be merged

Govt has also asked RBI to suggest a time frame for the consolidation to create better-capitalised lenders and improve regulatory oversight.

Govt set to infuse about Rs 2,000 crore into Punjab National Bank by next week

PNB will issue preferential shares to the government to raise the capital to meet interest obligations on perpetual bonds.

Is Modi govt being reasonable or reckless in using LIC to back its ailing public sector?

Experts weigh in on LIC's active participation in the disinvestment exercise of the government to rescue its struggling public sector companies.

Just when they need leadership, public sector banks are headless

Spiraling bad loans and an intensified crackdown on corruption in the financial sector have made the job less appealing than ever.

Public sector banks have a lot to do with India’s banking crisis

The disproportionate concentration of bad loans in the government owned banking system has a major role to play in the crisis that India is presently facing. 

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.