Experts question the government’s stance of preparing and notifying ‘National Energy Renewable Policy’ through the bill in spite of controversy over classification of hydro power as renewable energy. On Wednesday, April 29, a national...
Any Act or bill to get an act on electricity (or the larger issues of primary energy), has to first comprehend the basic functions electricity has in human society. Presumably, some form of electricity might...
COVID-19 has affected the entire economy. Hence the revival needs government intervention. After all the taxes collected from people are to provide services to the people. Reviving the economy will bring more taxes. In...
RBI in its first announcement dated 27th March 2020, consequent upon corona pandemic 2019 had come out with various initiatives such as reduction in CRR, Repo Rate etc. thus to improve upon liquidity position...
Recently, a piece of good news has appeared that World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) upholding the right to education in an official commitment and decided to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary,...
After nationalisation of 14 banks in 1969 and 6 banks in 1980, formation of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development on July 12, 1982 was a milestone or master stroke by Mrs. Indira...
The COVID-19 corona epidemic that has taken over 16,99,019 lives all around the world has undoubtedly been a disaster with no parallels in modern history. Political and social analysts describe this pandemic as the...
Despite having an inter-state migrant workmen act, the labour department has not been able to create a database of these migrant workers, stated Punit Minj of Jharkhand Mines Area Co-ordination Committee (JMACC). He further...
In order to strengthen banking services in rural India, it is important that the government exercise more power to institutions like NABARD, SIDBI and IFCI, stated Thomas Franco, former general secretary of All India...
The government of India has reduced deposit interest rates drastically in addition to the banks which have been reducing the rates in tune with reduction of repo rates by the RBI. (Repo rate is...
देश में कोरोनावायरस नामक महामारी ने हाहाकार मचा दिया है जिसे रोकने के लिये सारे राज्य पूरी कोशिश कर रहे है। इसी कडी मे केद्रिय सरकार ने भी पूरे देश मे लॉकडाउन कर दिया...
Organisations say this method of communication is likely to continue even after lockdown ends. Cultural organisations and NGOs are increasingly turning to webinars or online seminars to get their message across and the response...
Everyone accepts that the Covid-19 problem is not going to be over by April 14. When we were all anticipating an economy package, the PM asked us to hold candles and lights. To revive the economy,...
Since the inception of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), concerns have been raised by the local communities in different states about the large projects being implemented under it and their serious impacts on the...
Unless the state changes course quickly, its policies will hurt the medium, small and marginal farmer, who make up 85% of its agricultural sector. The people’s movements in Telangana that for six decades drove...
