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.

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In Charts: Bad loans spike most at these NBFCs, leaving them exposed to corona crisis

Finance

04 June, 2020

In Charts: Bad loans spike most at these NBFCs, leaving them exposed to corona crisis

Earlier this week, ratings agency Moody’s Investor Services said that the decision by India’s central bank to extend...

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Finance

29 May, 2020

How coronavirus threatens to derail years of effort to control India govt debt

When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the annual budget in February, a little factoid went largely unnoticed and...

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Infrastructure

26 May, 2020

Why the $12-bn bailout for electricity distribution firms won't light up the power sector

Earlier this month, the Narendra Modi government decided to provide a credit line of Rs 90,000 crore (almost $12 billion) ......

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Infrastructure

21 May, 2020

Why Indian aviation faces a long flight to full recovery from virus impact

The government’s decision to allow domestic carriers to resume partial operations from next week came as a shot of adrenaline...

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Finance

18 May, 2020

How govt's ‘huge' stimulus will seep into small businesses

As part of its Rs 20 trillion ‘stimulus package’ announced last week, the Narendra Modi government announced a slew...

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Finance

11 May, 2020

As smaller life insurers lose ground, will coronavirus drive consolidation?

Small private-sector life insurance companies lost ground to their bigger peers as a slowdown began to singe the Indian economy...

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Finance

06 May, 2020

How banks' credit growth slumped across sectors in the wake of coronavirus

In the last week of April, one month into the national lockdown, commercial banks parked more than Rs 7 trillion ......

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Markets

04 May, 2020

Check out the stocks that rose during the first two lockdown phases

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns that have ensued all over the world, most major stock ......

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Finance

27 April, 2020

As coronavirus gears up to flog dividends, a look at the stock goodies dangled in the past

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, India has been in a nation-wide lockdown for more than a month now, ......

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Finance

22 April, 2020

As coronavirus heightens default concerns, a look at India Inc's ‘unsafe debt'

The coronavirus pandemic will likely force several businesses to default on their borrowings, even though the central bank has...