The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Tuesday its central board had decided to create a separate supervisory and regulatory cadre within the bank after reviewing the current supervisory structure, Reuters reported. The board also reviewed the current economic situation, global and domestic challenges and various areas of operations of the central bank, along with the medium-term strategy document covering the RBI’s Mission Statement and the Vision Statement.

Signs of a turnaround at its marquee Jaguar Land Rover unit may not be enough to ease the challenges facing India’s oldest and most-storied business empire, Bloomberg News reported. The Tata Group bought the British luxury carmaker in 2008 for $2.3 billion, and it’s lately become a drag on the salt-to-software conglomerate, racking up losses in three quarters through December. Although Jaguar posted a net income of 119 million pounds ($151 million) this week, debt at owner Tata Motors Ltd.

Reliance Capital Ltd., Anil Ambani’s financial services company, protested against a three-step downgrade by Care Ratings that put its credit score two notches above junk, Bloomberg News reported. Care Ratings cut the firm’s long-term debt program to BBB from A and kept it on credit watch with developing implications, according to statements from Reliance Capital and the rating company on Saturday.

India’s debt-ridden Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) said on Sunday that Japan’s Orix Corp has expressed an interest in buying out the remaining 51% stake in IL&FS’s wind energy assets, Reuters reported. Orix Corp plans to buy the stake to exercise its right under the terms of an existing agreement that allows Orix to match the price offered by the highest bidder for buying a stake in the wind power plants, IL&FS said.

India’s central bank said on Thursday that shadow banks with asset size of more than 50 billion rupees should appoint a chief risk officer in a move to tighten regulation after a series of defaults at top lender Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services’ (IL&FS), Reuters reported. The government took control of IL&FS last year after its default triggered fears about contagion in India’s financial sector.

The government is open to providing more powers to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to direct lenders to take action on stressed assets, a senior finance ministry official told ET. There is a growing view in the government that there has to be some regulatory supervision over debt resolution by the RBI, The Economic Times reported. “It cannot be left to the discretion of banks — there has to be some regulatory supervision, and that should be from the banking sector regulator,” said the official.

Homebuyers and lenders of debt-laden Jaypee Infratech Thursday started voting on state-owned NBCC's bid to acquire Jaypee group's realty firm and complete the construction of over 20,000 flats, Business Standard reported. The voting process will end on Sunday and the outcome would be declared on May 20. The financial creditors would vote for the second time on the resolution plan for Jaypee Infratech, a subsidiary of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL). On May 3, the financial creditors rejected Mumbai-based Suraksha Realty's bid through voting process.

The chief executive and two other senior figures at Jet Airways have quit, the Indian company said on Tuesday, further eroding any hopes of a rescue of the debt-laden carrier that grounded operations last month, Reuters reported. Jet, once the biggest private carrier in the country, owes vast sums to its lessors, employees, fuel suppliers and other parties. It stopped all flights from April 17 after its lenders refused to give it any more funds to keep the carrier flying.

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has decided to hear the Essar Steel insolvency case dispute on a daily basis for an early resolution, The Hindu Business Line reported. ArcelorMittal, the winning bidder, has been fighting to takeover the steel company for over one-and-half year but there is no sign of a resolution yet. Arguing on behalf of Essar Steel’s financial creditor Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) on Monday, senior advocate Kapil Sibal said ArcelorMittal’s bid is only ₹39,500 crore rather than ₹42,000 crore as claimed by the company in the Supreme Court.

Small borrowers with annual income up to ₹60,000 are likely to get automatic relief for any unsecured loans they are unable to repay, according to a new scheme for personal insolvency resolution that the government has prepared, Mint reported. The new scheme that will replace colonial era laws dealing with personal bankruptcy will also give breathing space to those who can repay loans. It will also protect some of their assets from dues recovery to help in their subsistence.