Tariffs, Trade Injustice & Bilateral FTAs | Ranja Sengupta | Podcast

In this episode, Ranja Sengupta (Third World Network) unpacks how trade rules from GATT to the WTO to today’s bilateral agreements have been designed to favour the powerful. She exposes how negotiations are rigged,...

Read more August 11, 2025 at 3:11 pm CFA

8th Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2025 Announcement

The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites applications for the Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2025. Started in 2018, the Fellowship encourages young writers...

Stop the Toxic Takeover: AIFC Slams Illegal Waste Dumping in Sathangadu Wetland”

Alliance for Incinerator Free Chennai (AIFC) strongly condemns the Greater Chennai Corporation’s illegal dumping of waste in the Sathangadu wetland (Proposed WTE incinerator site) Press Statement | August 08, 2025 Alliance for Incinerator Free...

By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In India, the concept of lending has been recorded during the Mauryan age, i.e., 321–185 BCE. Kautilya’s...

Read more August 8, 2025 at 3:02 pm Thomas Franco

700 Voices, One Demand: Stop Plastic Pollution at the Source

Protect Our Health First – Stop Plastic Pollution at Its Source: Over 700 concerned citizens, communities, and Civil Society Organisations call on the Government of India for Urgent Action on Plastic Pollution in the...

Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Lobbyists Overrun Plastics Treaty Negotiations

Industry Presence Threatens Plastics Treaty Integrity at INC-5.2 GENEVA, Switzerland, August 7, 2025 — At least 234 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists — a new high compared to the 221 identified by CIEL...

Read more August 8, 2025 at 2:23 pm Centre for International Environmental Law

Eight Years of Finance Matters: Still Counting!

We have always been wondering whether our work reaches beyond our bubble? We got an answer to that a year ago when the government gave us the ultimate ‘shut up’ award: FCRA cancellation! Because,...

India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

In effect, India’s tax system mimics advanced economies in numbers but lacks the redistributive structure of the progressive nations.The World Economic Forum (WEF) has described severe income inequality as the biggest risk facing the...

Read more August 1, 2025 at 11:35 am Pranay Raj

Eight Years of Finance Matters – A Matter of Pride – Salute to CFA Team – Present and Past

The first issue of Finance Matters was released on 1st July 2017 and had articles titled: Appointment of a new Indian ED at the World Bank raises a few questions The Draconian FRDI Bill,...

Read more July 31, 2025 at 7:04 pm Thomas Franco

The Tariff Wars: India and the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade | Podcast

𝐘𝐨𝐮, 𝐌𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 | In conversation with Andrés Arauz In this episode, Andrés Arauz unpacks how US trade policy—across Trump, Biden, and beyond—isn’t madness, but a calculated revival of imperialism. From neo-Monroeism...

17th BRICS Summit: Bold words, blunt impact

While this Declaration is timely and music to many, and at first glance looks impressive and ambitious, a closer reading reveals its limited substance. Instead of providing new solutions, many of the clauses reiterate...

Read more July 29, 2025 at 5:29 pm The New Indian Express

Regulating Coal Operations: Environmental and Social Impacts Through the Lens of the National Green Tribunal

India has announced plans to reach Net Zero emissions by 2070

Read more July 29, 2025 at 12:21 pm Kush Tanvani and Shripad Dharmadhikary

आदिवासी महिलाओं को संपत्ति पर अधिकार का ऐतिहासिक फैसला

हाल-फिलहाल में सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने फैसला सुनाया कि लिंग के आधार पर आदिवासी महिलाओं को उत्तराधिकार के अधिकार से वंचित करना असंवैधानिक है और पैतृक संपत्ति पर उनके समान अधिकार की पुष्टि की है।...

Read more July 28, 2025 at 5:30 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

जलवायु संकट सभी के चिंताओं में शामिल हो

हर महाद्वीप के हर देश का हर व्यक्ति किसी न किसी रूप में जलवायु परिवर्तन से प्रभावित होगा। एक जलवायु प्रलय मंडरा रहा है, और हम इसके संभावित परिणामों के लिए पूरी तरह तैयार...

Read more July 25, 2025 at 12:21 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

खनन के कारण संकट में वन्य प्राणी, खनन के लिए गढ़चिरौली में 1.23 लाख पेड़ काटे जाएंगे

गढ़चिरौली के आदिवासी समुदाय और नागरिक संगठन ने महाराष्ट्र और केन्द्र सरकार से मांग की है कि गढ़चिरौली में खनन संबंधी सभी मंजूरियां और गतिविधियों का रोका जाए और पर्यावरण प्रभाव आकलन (ईआईए), विस्तृत...

Read more July 24, 2025 at 1:05 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

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