India’s retail inflation breaches RBI’s tolerance level first time since October

India’s annual retail inflation in January rose above the central bank’s upper threshold for the first time in three months, on higher food prices, vindicating last week’s hawkish monetary policy stance
Indian bankers in talks as court rulings threaten over $6 billion in loans

Informal talks are taking place to deal with the fall-out from two rulings by India’s Supreme Court that threaten the repayment of loans totalling nearly 500 billion rupees ($6.73 billion) to some of India’s largest banks, bankers close to the matter say.