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India's fourth-largest private lender – Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.– reported over 14% on-year decline in net profit for the March quarter as provisions jumped over three-fold compared to the corresponding quarter a year ago. The net profit for the quarter under review was INR 35.52 billion, up 7.5% sequentially, and marginally lower than analysts' expectation of INR 35.66 billion. Provisions during Jan-Mar was INR 9.09 billion as against INR 2.64 billion a year ago. Sequentially, the provisioning was up nearly 15%.