There is a euphoria around the “tax bonanza” offered to the middle classes in this year’s Budget. The proposal of no tax for those with annual income up to Rs 12 lakh has been...
Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects...
I remitted some money using GPay recently. There were many people with the same name, and erroneously the money went to the wrong account of one Arjunan. When the actual Arjunan to whom the...
The Mepadi landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, July 30, 2024, is one of the largest in the country, in terms of debris flow of nearly six million cubic meters—enough to fill 2,400 Olympic-sized swimming pools....
The Hindenburg report had accused the Adani Group of using shell companies in Mauritius for laundering money. But the Indian government staunchly defended the corporate giant. The Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based global...
Teesta Stage III dam — one of the biggest hydropower dams in India — was entirely wiped out by last year’s devastating glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). Hydropower projects, often despite their documented environmental...
A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group's Report on Banking in India
A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...
“What really was new was the trick of claiming Neo liberalism stripped away rules when much of what it was doing was imposing new rules that favoured banks and the wealthy. For instance, the...
कृषि अर्थव्यवस्था के जानकार मानते हैं कि खेती को बरकरार रखने,विकसित करने और सबका पेट भरने की अधिकांश जिम्मेदारी छोटे और सीमांत किसान ही निभाते हैं। जहां 70% ग्रामीण परिवार अभी भी अपनी आय...
Since the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor Indians has never been more evident. But inequality was never a public concern – until now. For much of the first half of the year,...
CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated by the godi media as the “best of both worlds”, i.e. the Old Pension Scheme (OPS)...
देश आजादी के बाद समाजवादी आर्थिक - सामाजिक व्यवस्था की स्थापना के लिए संकल्प लिया था। इस संकल्प को पूरा करने संविधान निर्माता भीमराव आंबेडकर ने इसे संविधान के प्रस्तावना में स्थान दिया।
The Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK), established to enhance safety measures, has been abused for unnecessary purchases like foot massagers and furniture instead of essential safety upgrades.
The government's budgetary allocations and poor implementation of welfare policies paint a concerning picture of oversight and disregard.
