The Untold Toll of India’s Covid Crisis

The second wave of COVID-19 in 2021 was one of the worst health crises India has ever faced. Hospitals were full, oxygen was scarce, and many families lost loved ones. But new government data...

वन भूमि अतिक्रमण को लेकर सरकारी दावों में विरोधाभास

मध्यप्रदेश सरकार द्वारा नेशनल ग्रीन ट्रिब्यूनल (एनजीटी) को दिए गए हलफनामे में बताया है कि 5.46 लाख हेक्टेयर वन भूमि पर लोगों ने कब्जा कर रखा है। एनजीटी ने वन भूमि पर अतिक्रमण का...

Read more May 14, 2025 at 4:46 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Banks on Sale to Foreigners and Foreign Banks – Public Banks Systematically Getting Alienated to Encourage Foreign Banks

Yes Bank, which was rescued from collapse by the largest bank in our country, SBI, and restored to good health, is on sale. From a huge net loss of Rs. 16,418.02 crores in 2020...

Read more May 14, 2025 at 4:07 pm Thomas Franco

India’s Census Delay and Its Policy Fallout | Finance Matters, 02 May 2025 | Editorial

India’s national Census, usually conducted every ten years without fail since 1881, has now been delayed for more than five years. Originally due in 2021, it’s now expected only in 2026 — a worrying...

3200 MW Adani Anuppur Project: A Threat to Tiger Corridors and Local Livelihoods

The Adani Group is planning to build a 3,200 (4 × 800) MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant

Read more May 6, 2025 at 4:03 pm Deepmala Patel

Increase in ATM Charges and RBI Actions and Inactions

From the first of May, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted the banks, an increase in the charges for ATM transactions above a free limit. The free limit is 5 transactions in...

Read more May 6, 2025 at 11:06 am Thomas Franco

अंतरराष्ट्रीय मजदूर दिवस (1 मई ): प्रकृति निर्भर मजदूरों की व्यापक आर्थिक सुरक्षा कैसे हो?

भारत में 60 करोड़ से अधिक लोग भूमि, जल, जंगल और समुद्र जैसे प्राकृतिक स्रोतों पर निर्भर हैं । देश में 14.6 करोड़ छोटे और सीमांत किसान, 14.4 करोड़ खेतिहर मजदूर ( बड़ी संख्या...

Read more May 1, 2025 at 12:55 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Dear govt, you can’t burn your way out of a plastic crisis

As part of the 2025-26 budget, the state govt announced two waste-to-energy incineration plants

Read more May 1, 2025 at 12:03 pm Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran & Vishvaja S

Nothing Personal? The DPDP Act and the End of RTI

The government says the new Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is about protecting our privacy. But a closer look shows something very different. This law isn’t about keeping our data safe—it’s about keeping...

विकेन्द्रिकरण का मंजिल दूर है

पंचायती राज दिवस (24 अप्रेल) पर विशेषसत्ता महात्मा गांधी ने स्वराज के बारे में चार बातें कही। एक, आत्म शासन और आत्म संयम। दो, स्वराज से मेरा अभिप्राय है लोक सहमति से चलने वाला...

Read more April 24, 2025 at 12:07 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Secrecy is protecting defaulters under the RBI Act and the proposed DPDP Act.

The whole world is talking about transparency, while data is accessed by the Big Four companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta) virtually and used widely, invading your privacy. Mukesh Ambani said, “Data is the...

Read more April 24, 2025 at 11:27 am Thomas Franco

The Public Hindu Pilgrimage

More Than Faith Pilgrimages are now more than mere religious acts: they are vast moving spectacles where scale becomes proof of sanctity. The call to become part of a moment eternal yet fleeting draws...

Read more April 22, 2025 at 11:39 am Amitanshu Verma

Whose PET Is It Anyway?

By narrowing the conversation to waste management, the industry avoids addressing the root cause of plastic pollution: overproduction. As the world faces the growing crisis of plastic overconsumption and waste, extended producer responsibility (EPR)...

Read more April 21, 2025 at 1:13 pm Om Prakash Singh

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