The removal of area limits risks further entrenching a model of extraction that prioritises profits over people and accelerated extraction over ecological sustainability. A revision in India’s mining law is on the cards, with...
The Singrauli region of Madhya Pradesh, often described as “India’s energy capital,” has for decades been a hub of coal mining and thermal power generation. Today, the Dhirouli coal mine project in this district...
INDIA’S 2025 was a year of unrelenting climate catastrophe. Extreme climatic events battered the country on 99 per cent of days from January to November, devastating 17.4 million hectare of crops and claiming over...
The study by Subhashree K, a researcher at the Center for Financial Accountability, found that 45 out of 48 mandatory environmental parameters were not monitored even once by the plant during the five years...
‘ಸಾಗರಮಾಲಾ’ ಮೂಲಕ ಉತ್ತರಕನ್ನಡದ ಸಮುದ್ರ ತೀರ ಮಾರಾಟಕ್ಕೆ? ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಮೀನುಗಾರರಿಂದ ತೀವ್ರ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಉತ್ತರಕನ್ನಡದ ಮೀನುಗಾರರು, ರೈತರು, ನದಿ ಮತ್ತು ಅರಣ್ಯವನ್ನು ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿರುವ ಸಮುದಾಯಗಳು ತಲೆತಲಾಂತರದಿಂದ ನೆಲ ಮತ್ತು ಸಮುದ್ರದ ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. 2025ರ ನವೆಂಬರ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನವೊಂದನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಿ, ತಮ್ಮ ವಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಈಗ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮಾದರಿಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಗೆ...
📽️WATCH: Post-BUDGET Wrap 2026 💼 Who Is(n’t) the Indian Government Spending for 🪙 It has been 10 days now since finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2026-27 in parliament. Over the last...
The advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has sharply criticised the Union Budget 2026–27, calling it a “budget sans kartavya” that weakens public welfare while favouring private corporations, even as inequality, climate risks...
The real test for Budget 2026 is not just what headline “job stimulus” the government announces, but whether it actually raises the quality of work. When the Bharatiya Janata Party took office in 2014,...
The finance ministry needs to acknowledge that relying on NBFC-led credit delivery while banks retreat from small-ticket lending is neither equitable nor sustainable. For several years now, India’s Union budgets have relied more on...
The only option for India is to reduce dependence on the external markets and boost internal markets via income support to the marginalised which can more than make up for the loss of external...
Climate emergency is simultaneously also the crisis of labour and livelihood, health and agriculture and biodiversity, and a direct outcome of our industrial and infrastructural development. The climate emergency is live. As smog, debris,...
🪙 As India approaches another Union Budget, questions around privatisation and the future of public institutions have regained importance. The names of Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani have come up a lot during elections...
Instead of fancy salons in the name of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code that gives convenient haircuts to the super rich, we need a budget that makes amends to actually improve recoveries instead of the...
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...
📽️ WATCH: BUDGET2026 👷♀️Whose Job Is It To Worry About Jobs? And What Can The Budget Achieve? 💼 In about ten days, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget 2026-27. This...
