BENGALURU, Oct 15 (Reuters) - India's HDB Financial Services HDBF.NS posted a near 2% drop in second-quarter profit on Wednesday, hurt by higher loan losses and provisions.
Net profit fell to 5.81 billion rupees ($66 million) for the quarter ended September 30 from 5.91 billion rupees a year earlier.
Loan losses and provisions rose 74% to 7.48 billion rupees.
($1 = 88.0260 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nishit Navin; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)
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