এনটিপিসির অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন দিক: এনটিপিসির সামাজিক ও পরিবেশগত ‘ফুটপ্রিন্ট’ বিষয়ক একটি সমালোচনা

ন্যাশনাল থার্মাল পাওয়ার কর্পোরেশন (এনটিপিসি) একটি ফরচুন 500 কোম্পানি, ‘নবরত্ন অফ ইন্ডিয়া’ সম্মানে ভূষিত এমন চারটির মধ্যে একটি সংস্থা। এটি, চার দশকেরও বেশি সময় ধরে ভারতের উন্নয়নের অনুসন্ধানে অগ্রণী ভূমিকা পালন করেছে—এই ‘উন্নয়ন মডেল’টির...

Read more June 22, 2022 at 5:05 pm Nishank

Agnipath: One more disaster in the making

Replacing regular jobs with short-term contractual ones will not only compromise professionalism in the armed forces and national security, but it will also pose a serious threat to social order already torn asunder by...

Read more June 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm Prasanna Mohanty

From 16 Cr Jobs Promised in 8 Years, Only 10 L to Materialize in 18 months!

Mr Narendra Modi promised 2 crore jobs per year in 2014 itself. Now after 8 years, unemployment has increased in great proportions due to demonetisation, GST, lockdowns, contractualisation of labour and not filling up...

Read more June 20, 2022 at 1:02 pm Thomas Franco

Ghogha Seaport gets Clean Chit from NGT against Violation of Environmental Norms

Infrastructure Finance Update, May 2022 Infrastructure Finance Updates for the month of May covered the updates from various sectors of roads and highways, seaports, airports, railways, real estate, logistics sectors and Infrastructure Investment Trusts...

Read more June 16, 2022 at 4:24 pm Shivani Dwivedi

वापस आया कोयला संकट! क्या है इसके पीछे की असली कहानी?

भारत बिजली की कमी और कोयला संकट से जूझ रहा है। दुनिया का दूसरा सबसे बड़ा कोयला उत्पादक देश अपने बिजली संयंत्रों को माल उपलब्ध कराने में लगातार विफल क्यों हो रहा है? केंद्र...

Each train in India is an Economic Unit – The Govt is attempting to collapse it.

I was travelling from Chennai to Bhopal by Tamil Nadu Express, which is supposed to be a Superfast Express to attend the ‘All India People's Science Congress.’

Read more June 13, 2022 at 4:11 pm Thomas Franco

Coal crisis is back! What is the real story behind the repeating crisis?

India is heading to another spell of power shortage and the union government is pushing the states to import coal.

Legal Research Intern / Legal Research Fellow

Centre for Financial Accountability is looking for two part-time legal research interns for a period of 2 months to join our International Finance team. The research will primarily be based on collating documents related...

Why is the Centre afraid of caste data and the census?

It is the fear of providing a fresh sail to the ‘Mandal’ (OBC) politics of the 1990s that prevents ‘Kamandal’ (BJP) politics in power from disclosing OBC data of the SECC of 2011 or...

Read more June 10, 2022 at 1:00 pm Prasanna Mohanty

Black Money, Fake Notes and Inflation – What are the Government and RBI doing?

On November 8th, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes would be abolished. These notes have to be surrendered to the bank branches. He said black money...

Read more June 7, 2022 at 11:25 am Thomas Franco

Lithium Generated Energy: A Renewable Boon or a ‘Green’ Hoax

Introduction Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently become the buzz word for all the wrong reasons. Almost half a dozen incidents of EVs catching fire have been reported in India since late March of this...

Read more May 30, 2022 at 7:02 pm Shreshta Chowdhury

Privatization of Public Sector Banks: A Lethal blow to Social Banking

A Critical Report on Indian Overseas Bank Today our country is in an economic crisis, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is massive unemployment. Rural infrastructure is not improving, and the Central Government...

Read more May 30, 2022 at 6:23 pm Kannan Neelamegan

The Lankan Crisis: Lessons for India

While the mainstream media covers the turmoil in Sri Lanka as something that is unfolding on a day to day basis, what is lost out is the long term trajectories that have precipitated the...

क्या अब महंगाई से निपट पाना मुमकिन है ?| हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

महीनों तक नकारने , दिखावा करने और बड़ी बड़ी बात करने के बाद आखिरकार सरकार को सच मानना ही पड़ा। देश एक बड़े आर्थिक संकट की और जा रहा है और महंगाई ने हमारी...