Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity” Contact: Gillian Wilson +1 (202) 466 5188 x114 gillian@earthrights.org September 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. Indian fishing...
The ‘Privacy Judgement,’ where a nine-member Supreme Court bench counted the right to privacy as a fundamental right, redefined the rights of a citizen and put limitations on the state to be invasive of...
Maju Varghese The Parliament met from July 17 to August 11, 2017. The election of the president and vice-president of India took place during this session. The new vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, presided over...
August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...
National Conference on State of India’s Thermal Power: Trends, Cost & Mounting Financial stress on Aug.23. It will begin at 9:30 AM at Annex First Floor India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg New...
August 10, 2017, New Delhi: “The government, which is arguing against the right to privacy in Aadhaar, is fighting for the privacy of large corporate defaulters,” said eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has raised...
The Asian Development Bank was conceived in the early 1960s as a financial institution that would foster economic growth and cooperation in Asia. India was a founding member of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)...
Conversations on Finance Understanding Goods and Service Tax (GST), its impact and implications GST, as a concept, introduced by the UPA government in the budget speech by Chidambaram, is a reality today. Pranab Mukherjee,...
For Immediate Release After a Judge declared World Bank immunity cases “wrongly decided,” the communities affected by the Tata Mundra project approach US court to review “absolute immunity” doctrine Communities harmed by Tata Mundra...
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...
New Banking Legislations: Boon or Bane? Conversation with Dr Thomas Franco, General Secretary, All India Bank Officers Confederation, on the perils of the recent banking legislations, including Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016, Banking...
The union cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has recently approved the proposal to introduce the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament. The...
A U.S. Federal Court has held that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is entitled to “absolute immunity” from lawsuits brought by communities harmed by IFC projects. The case, filed by communities affected by the...
For Immediate Release Federal Appeals Court Rules That World Bank Group Cannot Be Sued For Harming Communities Affected Communities Plan Further Legal Challenge June 27, 2017, Washington D.C., and Mundra: The U.S. Court of...
Press Statement | 26 June 2017 Bailout Pleas by both Adani and Tata Projects in Mundraa symptom of larger menace;Government should not acquire liabilities, to waste public money;Both corporations should be held accountable for...
