Aman Malik

A physicist turned career journalist who has been covering the infrastructure sector for more than a decade and a half, Aman writes on the intersection between business and policy.

How big is Indian banks' bad loans problem?

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12 October, 2016

How big is Indian banks' bad loans problem?

On 10 October Reuters reported that bad debt on the books of India’s banks had swelled to Rs 9.22 trillion ......

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12 October, 2016

All you wanted to know about the draft guidelines on India's new bankruptcy code

On Tuesday the government issued fresh draft guidelines that will help put India’s bankruptcy code into action. The government has ......

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10 October, 2016

Why industrial activity in India is in far worse shape than what headline IIP data show

For the second month in a row, India saw a decline in its factory output, which contracted 0.7% in August. ......

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10 October, 2016

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom win 2016 Nobel prize for economics

Two US-based economists of European origin, UK born Oliver Hart and Finland born Bengt Holmstrom, have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize ......

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10 October, 2016

How black money hunt, disinvestment may help Modi govt make up for telecom auction shortfall

On Monday, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said the government is unlikely to go in for another auction of telecom spectrum ......

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06 October, 2016

Economy roundup: FinMin may find common ground with RBI on bad loans

The finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appear to be on the same page on the question ......

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05 October, 2016

Why IMF's global economic outlook means both good and bad news for India

On Wednesday, International Monetary Fund (IMF) came out with its World Economic Outlook for October 2016. IMF has predicted subdued ......

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05 October, 2016

Economy roundup: Increasing automation may put 69% jobs at risk in India: World Bank

The World Bank has said that increasing automation could jeopardise 69% jobs in India and 77% in China in the ......

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04 October, 2016

RBI to allow startups to tap ECB route to raise capital

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) will allow startups to raise up to $3 million (Rs 20 crore), everyfinancial year from ......

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04 October, 2016

Urjit Patel's first monetary policy review: RBI cuts interest rate by 25 bps

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday cut interest rates by 25 basis points (bps), even as the central ......