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Govt may dip into its LIC kitty again to bail out IDBI Bank
26 Jun 2018
Against non-performing assets of about Rs55,000 crore and stressed assets of nearly 60,000 crore, IDBI Bank had fixed assets worth Rs6,771 crore as of end March 2018
Sandeep Bakhshi made ICICI Bank COO; Kochhar is CEO 'on leave’
19 Jun 2018
ICICI Bank board, which earlier tried to shield the CEO from the allegations levelled against her by an anonymous whistleblower, now claims the bank is following the “highest levels of governance and corporate standards”
Govt’s fisc under strain as PSBs add Rs 87,000 cr loss in FY18
11 Jun 2018
With public sector banks' losses getting out of control, the government has appointed a committee to make recommendations on setting up an asset reconstruction company that will manage the Rs8,30,000-odd crore of losses amassed by state-run banks
RBI hikes repo rate by 25 bps to 6.25%
06 Jun 2018
The hike in the repo rate, which follows a sharp rise in consumer price inflation rate to 4.6 per cent in April, is also intended to tame rising inflation, RBI said
RBI hikes repo rate by 25 bps to 6.25%
06 Jun 2018
The hike in the repo rate, which follows a sharp rise in consumer price inflation rate to 4.6 per cent in April, is also intended to tame rising inflation, RBI said
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation