As the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday registered a case of money laundering against Gujarat-based ABG Shipyard based on the complaint of the State Bank of India, the company has been described as being involved in “India’s biggest...
Prasanna Mohanty’s 'An Unkept Promise: What Derailed the Indian Economy' looks at the economic landscape of India since Modi took over in 2014 and explains what went wrong based on data and hard evidence.
Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court...
In its reckless privatisation drive, the Government of India (GoI) is selling the Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to Nandal Finance & Leasing Private Limited, a Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) with a dubious record, owned by a...
Since 2018, we in Kerala especially those of us living in mountainous areas or the coast are afraid when clouds darken the skies and there is possibility of rains. This is because for 2...
Estimated ridership goes up & rate of return looks rosy in DPR, raising doubts of data fudging. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Going by the preliminary feasibility report (PFR) prepared in March 2019, the proposed SilverLine project would draw...
The Summary of the Detailed Project Report sheds light on how the Kerala government’s ambitious SilverLine railway corridor project is substandard, as well as ecologically and economically unviable. A media house in Kerala recently...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the LDF government’s pet SilverLine project raises questions on its financial viability. With an estimated project cost of Rs 63,940.67 crore and completion period of five years as...
Kerala’s flagship Silver Line project, a semi-high speed rail corridor passing through 11 districts between Thiruvananthpuram and Kasargod is not technically a “Bullet Train” like the one proposed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, but it...
सागरी किनारपट्टी व्यवस्थापन अधिसूचनेचा (सीआरझेड) सुधारित मसुदा हा जाचक असून या मसूद्याविरोधात किनारपट्टीलगतच्या गावांमध्ये प्रचंड नाराजी पसरली आहे. पर्यावरण मंत्रालयाकडे शेकडो हरकती पालघर: सागरी किनारपट्टी व्यवस्थापन अधिसूचनेचा (सीआरझेड) सुधारित मसुदा हा जाचक असून या...
The draft notification proposes amendments which include exempting prior clearance for development projects, allowing removal of sand bars, and creating ‘permanent’ beach shacks. Local communities and experts fear these amendments will put the coastal...
Kerala’s flagship Silver Line project, a semi-high speed rail corridor passing through 11 districts between Thiruvananthpuram and Kasargod is not technically a “Bullet Train” like the one proposed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, but it...
Indian lenders channelled more funds to clean energy projects compared to coal-based ones for a third straight year in 2020 with more expected to flow into the renewables sector in the coming years after...
Wind and solar projects accounted for 74% of the INR 328.97 billion (USD 4.3bn/EUR 3.8bn) in project finance secured by coal and renewables in India in 2020, a new report shows. Climate Trends and...
More money flowed into renewables than coal for the third year in a row in India, with 74% of the value of loans across both sectors in 2020 going to renewable energy projects, compared...
