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Saturday, August 2, 2025
TopicState Bank of India

Topic: State Bank of India

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 

On Camera

Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

What’s standing between Modi & Trump? India’s contradictions

Psychoanalysing Donald Trump is a booming global business. We in India are doing our bit. The only objective, however, is to find a way...