In 2011-12, India imported Rs 52,400-crore (Rs 524 billion) worth of telecom equipment; most estimates are that the figure in 2012-13 will match or even cross that number.
While write-off will push up its debt equity ratio, decline in equity will push up return ratios.
RBI Governor D Subbarao says banks' response to RBI's monetary intervention is asymmetric.
Takao replaced Haruhiko Kuroda, who had, in March, quit ADB to take charge as Japan's central bank governor.
Street expects RBI to keep CRR unchanged, opt for open-market operations to ease liquidity
Four days ahead of RBI's monetary policy review, SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri says a cut of one percentage point in CRR will allow the bank to lower lending rates 20 basis points.
Most major corporate houses, such as the Tata group, Birla group and Reliance Industries, besides non-banking financial companies like L&T Finance, M&M Financial Services and the Shriram group, are said to be interested in setting up new banks.
The public-sector lenders were yet to get a formal proposal on sale from HSBC.
Reserve Bank of India lens on mutual fund, insurance, gold coin sale by branch's non-sales staff
With recruitment numbers having dropped off sharply since the liberalisation process got under way in 1991, large-scale retirements of people hired during the 1970s and 1980s will leave large gaps in the organisational structures of these banks.
In most circumstances, this would have been the cause for widespread handwringing and lamentation. But in today's India, the response was more one of relief than one of shock.
RBI norms on foreign control of corporations will clear the air.
The Goa villa, Mumbai office could be put on the block.
Aspirants banking on experience and domain knowledge of veterans
The first such interaction would be in Mumbai on Monday.
Banks will ask the banking regulator to defer the higher provisioning norms on standard restructured advances.
The BRICS bank is simply too expensive a proposition for a group of developing countries that includes many who are already overspending domestically.
To recover dues from 50 top defaulters; finance ministry wants proceedings fast-tracked.
Large sectors such as metals, mining, machinery, and transportation have seen a decline.
In an interview with PricewaterhouseCoopers, A M Naik, chairman of Larsen & Toubro Limited, talks about the company's strategies, opportunities and the challenges facing it.
