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Saturday, November 22, 2025
TopicReserve Bank of India

Topic: Reserve Bank of India

Lesson from IL&FS crisis: Indian finance firms need to hold assets that can be collateral

Lenders like IL&FS have amassed large balance sheets but their assets can’t be easily pledged even in normal times.

Oil shock puts rupee on course to beat taper-tantrum losses in 2013

Predictions that crude could return to $100 per barrel signal that things may get a lot worse for rupee in final 3 months of 2018.

RBI will go slow on raising rates, says investor who foresaw liquidity crisis

Suyash Choudhary of IDFC says RBI will risk financial stability and seriously hurt growth if it adds to the two rate increases since June.

Lower borrowings by Modi govt may not help battered bond market

Modi govt may trim its borrowings for second time this year but it is not likely to lift the pall over the bond market.

Crisis-hit IL&FS plans Rs 300 billion asset sales to raise funds

Defaulter IL&FS plans to sell 25 assets and has received investor interest for 14 of them.

Cap on oil prices will rescue sinking rupee, says SBI

The currency's recent descent is said to be self-correcting to some extent as its weakness will help perk up exports. 

‘Clown Prince’ Rahul Gandhi, you lied on the Rafale deal & NPAs: Arun Jaitley

The finance minister accused Congress of lying about the actual value of NPAs during its tenure.

Congress and BJP locked in a bitter war of words over Vijay Mallya’s statements

While Rahul Gandhi accused Arun Jaitley of 'colluding with a criminal', BJP claimed that the UPA govt had given a 'sweet deal' to Kingfisher Airlines.

Modi govt wants RBI to step up efforts to support falling rupee

Government officials communicated last week with RBI on the need to intervene more aggressively in the market to support the rupee.

The worst is yet to come for India’s rupee as crude oil bill jumps by 76%

The current-account deficit is also said to widen by 2.5% of the GDP as prices of commodities continue to rise.

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India’s labour policy left it unable to compete with other eastern economies: Nani A Palkhivala

Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

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.