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

The Crisis of Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) I Finance Matters, 18 July 2025 | Editorial

The Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar is not just a bureaucratic exercise; it is a grave injustice unfolding in plain sight. What is being called a...

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

𝐘𝐨𝐮, 𝐌𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 | In conversation with Prabhat Patnaik

Will you arrest Anil Ambani or let him escape? Or make him 3rd richest in the country, Prime Minister?

Anil Ambani’s loan has been reported as fraud for the second time by SBI:It’s reported by BusinessLine as: State Bank of India has decided to report the loan account of Reliance Communications Ltd (RCOM)...

Read more July 21, 2025 at 2:51 pm Thomas Franco

Standing Up to the Empire: Reclaiming Southern Multilateralisms | Webinar Report

The fifth webinar in the Political Economy of the Trump Era series examined the historical exclusions and contemporary fractures of the multilateral system through the lens of the Global South. Titled “Standing Up to...

Coal is Clean for Rural India and Dirty for Urban?

Rollback of FGD rules is a shortsighted, unhealthy, and economically flawed move. Press Statement | July 16, 2025 New Delhi: On July 11, 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) issued...

‘कैम्पा’ से रोकी जा सकती है, वनों की कटाई

हमारी नीतियां, खासकर वन संबंधी नीतियां, इस अवधारणा पर टिकी होती हैं कि उपभोग के बाद हम अपने प्राकृतिक संसाधनों को वापस पुनर्जीवित कर लेंगे। वनों की क्षतिपूर्ति की खातिर बना ‘कैम्पा’ इसी विचार...

Read more July 15, 2025 at 1:42 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Applicants Selected for the First Marjorie Fernandes Internship (MFI) Program

We are delighted to announce the selected applicants for the first edition of the Marjorie Fernandes Internship (MFI) Program for undergraduate students. This marks an important milestone in our effort to support young minds...

Energy Matters | June 2025

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights, Elisa Morgera, in her latest report, has warned that fossil fuels are at the core of the triple planetary crises of biodiversity loss,...