{"id":956130,"date":"2025-08-19T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956130"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:59:38","slug":"mtnl-defaults-on-loan-repayments-worth-nearly-a-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/mtnl-defaults-on-loan-repayments-worth-nearly-a-billion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"MTNL defaults on loan repayments worth nearly a billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) has defaulted on loan repayments yet again, raising further questions on the revival of the state-run telecom operator.<\/p>\n<p>The Mumbai-based company has failed to pay \u20b98,659 crore (about $990.48 million) principal and interest to seven public sector lenders, including State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank, according to an exchange filing on Monday. It includes \u20b97,794 crore in principal and \u20b9865 crore in overdue interest. These repayments were due between 12 August 2024 and and 3 February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) has defaulted on loan repayments yet again, raising further questions on the revival of the state-run telecom operator. The Mumbai-based company has failed to pay \u20b98,659 crore (about $990.48 million) principal and interest to seven public sector lenders, including State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank, according to an exchange filing on Monday. It includes \u20b97,794 crore in principal and \u20b9865 crore in overdue interest. These repayments were due between 12 August 2024 and and 3 February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}