With over 10,000 cases and only half the manpower it should have, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is buckling under the weight of its
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NCLT allows ICICI Bank’s Rs 7-bn claim in Era Infra insolvency case | Business Standard News
The Principal Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday directed the resolution professional (RP) of Era Infrastructure India to admit ICICI Bank’s Rs 7-billion
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These very financial creditors, when assembled as committee of creditors, can swiftly approve the plan when presented by the insolvency professional under the IBC. There
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British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday managed to survive a vote of confidence among the parliamentary contingent of her own Conservative Party. The opposition was unexpectedly stiff —
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The National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog, has reportedly proposed the creation of a new National Health Authority. This authority will oversee the new universal
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The government has moved swiftly to appoint Shaktikanta Das, a seasoned bureaucrat and a man with impeccable integrity, as the 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank
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Regulation of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) is reportedly being significantly tightened soon, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviewing their reporting and financing requirements.
Crisis at Mint Road | Business Standard Editorials
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There is hatred in the air in the city of love as millions pour into key locations of Paris to protest falling living standards and “monetised slavery”.
Economy-A balancing act | Business Standard Editorials
In some bad news for the fiscal situation, it has been reported that the excess of government expenditure over revenue in the period between April
Sovereignty has its revenge in Europe | Business Standard Column
Western Europe was supposed to have transcended history. A region where nations were happy to surrender their sovereignty to supranational authority in Brussels and the leadership was
The future of oil prices | Business Standard Column
Opec’s decision on December 7 to cut production to shore up crude oil prices was expected. Whether this will have the intended effect is not
India’s zombie raj: Companies on life support, and distressed banks | Business Standard Column
The old line that it was the job of the Federal Reserve “to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going” needs
Trade war and China’s economic prospects | Business Standard Column
The world breathed a sigh of relief at the truce arrived at between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of the recent G-20
Right intent, wrong definition | Business Standard Column
Sanjay Singal, promoter of the distressed Bhushan Power & Steel, is an angry man. In his petition before the Supreme Court, Mr Singal has questioned
Hardly ‘personal’; wholly ‘institutional’ | Business Standard Column
Urjit Patel is the third. Sir Osborne Smith, the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who resigned before completing his term quit office in June 1937,
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Judges and schoolchildren enjoy the maximum number of holidays in a year (about 175) and it is justifiable as both of them carry loads of homework.
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The last fortnight has been marked by an escalation in geopolitical tensions and there’s every likelihood that the tensions will remain high. On the domestic
Jobs as jumlas | Business Standard Column
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been often criticised for not exactly fulfilling his promise of 10 million jobs during his campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. After