As per reports in Business Standard, “Call for paring Govt stake in Public Sector Banks, diluting the Government’s stake in them and leaving their regulations to the RBI were among the key new ideas...
Access to services like health and water is increasingly dependent on citizens’ capacity to pay, which transforms rightsholders into consumers, critics warn. A labourer in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City or GIFT city in Gujarat...
The letter also demanded that the Indian government suspend the existing labour agreement that facilitates the replacement of Palestinian workers. Condemning the recently-inked India-Israel Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and terming it a clear sign...
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The GST Council’s rate reductions are being hailed as a relief for consumers, but the timing makes the move look reactive rather than reformist. If the intent was truly to ease burdens on households,...
The World Bank’s Empire: Exploitation and the Fightback Prafulla Samantara, founder of the Lok Shakti Abhiyan and Goldman Environmental Prize Laureate (2017), speaks at the Independent People’s Tribunal: World Bank on Trial on “The...
Civil society organisations, people’s movements, and individual activists have submitted a detailed appeal to banks, urging them to withhold investment in the proposed Anuppur Thermal Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. The plant is being...
भारत में बांधों को सिंचाई, बिजली और बाढ़ नियंत्रण का जरिया माना जाता है, लेकिन हालिया अनुभवों ने उनकी सीमाएँ उजागर कर दी हैं। हिमाचल और जम्मू-कश्मीर की बारिश से भाखड़ा, पौंग और रंजीत...
Newspapers are full of advertisements praising the Prime Minister for the so-called Diwali gift. Few analysts have come out with the real report card of GST. Convener of Association of Indian Entrepreneurs Mr. K...
On urgent loan relief for households, individuals and small enterprises hit by the 2025 monsoon disasters To: Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) • Chairpersons/CEOs of Scheduled Commercial Banks • Heads of NBFCs and Microfinance...
You, Me & the Economy Standing Up To The Empire: Reclaiming Southern Multilateralism I In conversation with Shalmali Guttal In this episode, Senior Analyst Shalmali Guttal addresses the fundamental question: Is the global economy...
You, Me & the Economy Standing Up To The Empire: Reclaiming Southern Multilateralism I In conversation with Biswajit Dhar In this episode, economist Biswajit Dhar examines how the concept of multilateralism has never truly...
Exposing the World Bank: Colonial Contracts, Capitalist Profits, and the Fight from Below Medha Patkar, founder of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and leader of the National Alliance of People’s Movements, spoke on “Exposing the...
The Indian Port Bill 2025 was passed in the Lok Sabha on 12th August 2025 and subsequently cleared in the Rajya Sabha on 18th August 2025 during the monsoon session. The bill seeks to...
The project will ease access for pilgrims to the revered Vrindavan temple – but some residents are wary of the price they will pay. Devotees at Vrindavan’s Banke Bihari temple during Holi celebrations. |...
