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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicState Bank of India

Topic: State Bank of India

Electoral bonds worth Rs 1,716 cr issued this year — it’s Rs 660 cr more than all of 2018

Sanya Dhingra -
The revelations through an RTI inquiry comes as Supreme Court is hearing a petition, seeking a stay on the scheme.

Electoral bonds to be sold during Lok Sabha polls, says govt after press release muddle

Sanya Dhingra -
Launched in March 2018, electoral bonds are meant to ensure transparency in political funding and offer an alternative to cash donations.

India’s bankruptcy law will exist—with dentures in place of teeth

Andy Mukherjee -
India’s two-year-old bankruptcy regime has been brought to the brink of irrelevance by the strain of resolving its most high-profile case -- Essar...

Edelweiss raises $1.3 billion to profit from an unprecedented bad-loan clean up in India

Nupur Acharya -
The company will use the funds to buy and turn around stressed assets

By 2050, more than 20% of people in south India will be over 65. And that spells trouble

Remya Nair -
A State Bank of India report says this will put pressure on these states’ infrastructure, and widen income distribution gap between the south and north.

All that Jet needed to keep flying was one rupee

Andy Mukherjee -
There’s still plenty of potential in Jet, provided it can modify its business model, or take that elusive one rupee seriously.

State Bank of India still has too many genies to bottle

Andy Mukherjee -
The bank’s first quarterly profit in 12 months is no doubt an encouraging sign, though net income of $129 million on a $284 billion loan book is hardly worth celebrating.

India is considering the outright sale of IL&FS

Shruti Srivastava -
Other options include splitting businesses according to verticals and disposing them off to several buyers or injecting  liquidity at group level

The clock is ticking on the patience of Indian equity funds investors

Andy Mukherjee -
Of 416 open-ended, onshore equity funds, 401 have lost money. Imagine the peril if investors give up on funds sitting on hard-to-liquidate portfolios.

The 8 men and women who will find India’s first Lokpal

Fatima Khan -
The search committee, which includes former SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, will recommend the names for the chairperson and members of the Lokpal.
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Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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