Burning garbage is choking Delhiâs health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is...
This is the first in a two-part series on how workers, who have been toiling for decades in tea gardens, remain deprived of their basic rights and how the governmentâs lackadaisical attitude to this...
India's Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June 2015, identifying 100 cities in order to provide them with core infrastructure, along with a clean and sustainable environment.
Every morning, when we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future.we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future....
India already has ambitious renewable energy plans, but its coal baggage and failure..
Three years after discontinuing the Doing Business report, the World Bank Group is introducing a new corporate flagship publication called the Business Ready (B-READY) report.
India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life.
Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours...
Despite issuing an open letter communicating the significance of the NGFP summit, most leaders of the global north did not attend the event.
By all accounts, India is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, and inequality has been on the rise in recent years.
Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj A Reserve Bank of India statement on June 8 has set off a raging debate. The bank has allowed for write-offs and compromise settlements for even frauds and wilful...
What Thomas Piketty shows us in A Brief History of Equality, with solid data over time, is that at the beginning of the 20th Century, direct taxes amounted to about 10% of the economy...
Indiaâs Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaranâs assertion last a few days back as reported by newspapers, that the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) was not necessary for India and âit may create...
The UNâs second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty ended in frustration last week after half of the five-day event was spent re-debating procedural rules, such as...
That child malnutrition levels in India are high and slow to improve, even when compared with neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, does not need belabouring.
