Growth impulses, while improving, remain fragile, and a rate hike will be disruptive to interest costs.
Loans, cash credits, and overdrafts at the end of December 22, 2017, stood at Rs 81,287.32 billion, against Rs 73,340 billion in the year-ago period.
Banks might not have realised the exact implication of risky projects under PPP projects, which were getting implemented under high leverage
Jet will, however, continue to pay the sale-linked productivity bonus to them.
While RBI's foreign exchange reserves have swelled to over $400 billion, it has a 'sell' position of $981 billion.
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The face of MNC drug firms in India and champion of IPR protection, he oversaw the Swiss giant's India expansion, its forays into new therapies and setting up of its global service centre in Hyderabad
There's a long way to go before human beings are replaced by machines -- in banks at least.
Foreign banks had 317 branches in 2015-16; it has reduced to 286. In the same period, employee strength came down from 26,642 to 24,766.
Traditionally, issuance from Chinese companies dominate the green bond market, but other emerging market economies are coming up fast
The government plans to rationalise trade margins for many other medical devices, besides stents and knee implants.
The move will have cascading effects for lot of related sectors
A combination of farm loan debt waivers by state governments and the implementation of the pay commission award could entail some fiscal slippages and pose a risk to inflation
Delhi airport, the country's busiest, runs out of slots due to runway capacity constraints.
Recent tribunal rulings open prospects of large haircuts and barriers to auctioning of personal guarantees, among other issues
What the reserves offer for now is improved import coverage of about 13 months, almost double the 2013 level of less than seven months. And, ammunition to arrest a rapid rupee slide, says Anup Roy.
Anup Roy and Krishna Kant on the challenges the public sector banks face in revitalising themselves
Bengaluru and Delhi airports had the fastest growth in passenger traffic in 2016 among global peers.
Gujarat has around 3,000 licensees for allopathic drug manufacturing, apart from around seven homeopathic licensees, 500 ayuvedic and 600-700 cosmetics licensees
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