This is the first quarterly numbers after the government earlier this week approved the sale of a 60.72 per cent stake in IDBI Bank to Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings for about Rs 53,000 crore in what would be the largest foreign investment in an Indian bank

Net interest income increased by 17.7 per cent year-on-year to Rs 25,339 crore from Rs 21,529 crore in same quarter during the previous year