The advocacy group, Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), has criticised the proposed Draft Social Security Rules, 2025 and the Draft Code on Wages, alleging that they significantly dilute workers’ rights and weaken state accountability...
The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Bill 2025 is being projected as a bold reform that modernises rural employment and aligns it with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. In...
🎙️ On Second Thought | New Episode 📽️Interview with Harsh Mander on World Inequality Report 2026 In this episode, writer and researcher Anirban Bhattacharya speaks with Harsh Mander on rising inequality and the politics...
This edition of the State of Finance in India report has India’s digital economy and its impact as its special theme. The term ‘infrastructure’ conjures up images of large projects made of steel and...
What better time to bring into effect the Labour Codes than right after a thumping victory in the Bihar elections. Bihar, a labour-sending state, saw out-migration, “palayan” of youth, lack of employment opportunities and...
Dispatches from A World Growing Apart. Issue 1 | 18 October 2025 Issue 2 | 10 Novemeber 2025 Issue 3 | 25 November 2025 Issue 4 | December 17, 2025 Issue 5 |...
With assets wiped out, crops lost and livelihoods ruined, disaster-hit families desperately need new loans or relief from existing debts. The women of Wayanad affected by the devastating 2024 landslide that scarred their lives...
The women of Wayanad affected by the devastating 2024 landslide that scarred their lives and lands, have achieved a significant victory at the Kerala high court in their battle for loan relief. A bench...
Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. The struggles of workers, employers, and the state to...
We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian banking system in particular. First time after independence, Indian banks are being sold to foreign...
In 2017, Maharashtra implemented an agriculture debt relief scheme that waived debt amounting to ₹18,762 crore. This was followed by another debt relief program in 2019 for an amount of ₹20,497 crore. In the...
बिहार की राजनीति में अपराध, जाति और सत्ता का त्रिकोण लंबे समय से निर्णायक भूमिका निभाता आया है।जंगल राज’ शब्द का पहली बार प्रयोग 1997 में हुआ था, और उसका संदर्भ आज के राजनीतिक...
मध्यप्रदेश में जहरीले कफ सिरप से मरने वाले बच्चों की संख्या 16 हो गया है। हाल ही में राजस्थान के भरतपुर और सीकर ज़िले में भी बच्चों को कप सिरप पिलाने से मौत हुई...
More than 100 civil society organisations and individuals — including Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan, Shaktiman Ghosh of the National Hawkers Federation, Thomas Franco, former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers...
When the RBI announced recently that its Financial Inclusion Index had jumped from 64.2 to 67 this year, celebrating “significant improvement,” it painted a rosy picture that masks a troubling reality. The Department of...
