For the communities living in the shadow of a proposed Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration plant in North Chennai’s Kodungaiyur, the primary question is deeply personal: “How will this affect my family’s health?” While promoted as...
The Solid Waste Collection and Handling cooperative or (SWaCH) is the world’s largest waste picker-led cooperative, with over 3,900 self-employed members. It was formally instituted in 2005 in Pune, Maharashtra, as a wholly-owned workers’...
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...
The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and newspapers say that the government is considering the appointment of Managing Directors in...
The decade-long programme to transform India’s cities was driven mostly by Central and state funding and invested little in the social well-being of citizens. The Smart Cities Mission, launched in June 2015 under the...
Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centralising vision and control. When the Indian government announced the Smart City Mission 10 years ago, it mandated...
Digital infrastructure is used to collect information that is being accessed by businesses, without clear data laws and policies. The Smart Cities Mission promised to revitalise India’s cities by ushering in an era of...
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...
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In 2025, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group (see Inside the Institutions, What is the International Finance Corporation (IFC)? ), launched its first review of the Sustainability Framework...
India’s current approach stands in sharp contrast to its own history. While the world confronts the horrors unfolding in Gaza, India’s cautious stance on the ongoing genocide is deafening. According to the report by...
In the recently published book (In) Complete Justice? The Supreme Court at 75, Critical reflections edited by Justice S. Muralidhar, former Chief Justice, Odisha, Dr. Usha Ramanathan, in her article, has quoted many cases...
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...
