The lesson India must learn from Indore

The city is waging a war against garbage, says Anjuli Bhargava.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com On the face of it, Indore looks like just another unremarkable Indian town in central India.......

Modi runs into protests at WEF

Branding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a 'killer', social activists and members of some NGOs led by Nafisa Ali on Monday staged a demonstration in a five-star hotel where Modi was to......

Bank hopefuls stare down road fraught with cost, risks

Companies looking to set up India's first new banks in nearly a decade have a long and costly road ahead of them.While corporate heavyweights from the Tata, Birla and Bajaj groups to Anil Ambani's......

Corporate India sets ball rolling for banking play

A day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued the draft norms for new banking licences, a host of companies started the ground work for their banking play.While companies like Religare and......

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Vijay Mahajan, chairman, Basix, a company involved in microfinancing and providing and sustaining rural livelihoods, spoke about various stages of an enterprise and different evolutionary stages of......

Third of banks' MFI loans go into restructuring

Almost a third of loans that banks have given to microfinance institutions have been admitted for restructuring.This follows the inability of MFIs to repay.The Corporate Debt Restructuring cell has......