State Banks

The announcement from Ukraine's communications watchdog comes with the former Soviet republic fearing a possible attack from Russian forces conducting massive military drills at its frontiers.

IMF sees India growth picking up, inflation behaving

It also highlighted potential risks from weak corporate and bank balance sheets. Jaitley's budget on Monday committed $3.7 billion to recapitalise state banks. Bankers estimate that their recapitalisation needs are nearly 10 times as much

Merit in state banks' demand for more capital: FM Jaitley

India's state-owned banks have made a "strong case" for higher capital infusion by the government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday, adding he saw a merit in the demand.

India to tighten screws on banks' window dressing of a/c's

Banking and government sources said the new targets, to be discussed at meetings with top state bank officials this month, would focus on efficiency, with objectives set around return on assets, or return on equity, and controlling bad debts.

NTPC missed capacity addn trgt; maintain underperform: CLSA

Other potential headwinds that will impact the stock, according to CLSA, are: the government's 5 percent divestment of NTPC and the poor state of state banks.

RBI seen selling USD at 63.85 levels via PSBs: Dealers

The rupee was last at 63.56/58 to the dollar, off its low of 64.13 seen early in session.