Reducing Small Loans from Banks – A Serious Alarm, Act Immediately

After nationalisation of 14 banks in 1969 and 6 more in 1980, access to credit became possible for small borrowers. But everything changed after 1991 and worsened after 2014. Please refer to tables from...

Read more June 20, 2025 at 10:59 am Thomas Franco

Marjorie Fernandes Internship Program for Undergraduate Students

Looking to turn your passion into purpose? Join CFA’s Marjorie Fernandes Internship Program and be part of a team driving real change. At the Centre for Financial Accountability, you won’t just learn—you’ll do. Dive...

विश्व मरुस्थलीकरण एवं सूखा रोकथाम दिवस(17 जून)मिट्टी क्षरण और वर्षा पानी को रोकना मरुस्थलीकरण का सामाधान

शुष्क भूमि पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र, जो दुनिया के एक तिहाई से अधिक भूमि क्षेत्र को कवर करता है, अत्यधिक दोहन और अनुचित भूमि उपयोग के लिए बेहद संवेदनशील है।मरुस्थलीकरण शुष्क, अर्ध-शुष्क और शुष्क उप-आर्द्र क्षेत्रों...

Read more June 17, 2025 at 3:51 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

India’s GDP Growth: A Misleading Celebration | Finance Matters, 06 June 2025 | Editorial

There has been considerable noise in the media and government circles about India surpassing Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy in terms of GDP. While this sounds impressive, it hides the real story....

Private Banks overtaking Public Banks in business – it’s a plan – not a surprise.

The Annual Report of RBI 2025 and Basic Statistical Return 1 and 2, March 2025, reveal the increasing share of number of deposit accounts, deposits, loan accounts, and loan amount shifting to private banks....

Read more June 8, 2025 at 1:06 pm Thomas Franco

Time of Monsters: Fascism and the Fusion of the State and the Corporation

Musk & Trump From the bonhomie to the fallout & beyond In the context of growing authoritarianism and deepening corporate capture, the second webinar in the series The Political Economy of the Trump Era,...

विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस 5 जून पर विशेषप्लास्टिक प्रदुषण पर्यावरण के लिए खतरा,प्रभावी प्रतिबंध जरूरी

विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस पर्यावरण के लिए सबसे बड़ा अंतरराष्ट्रीय दिवस है। वर्ष 1972 में पर्यावरण के प्रति वैश्विक स्तर पर राजनीतिक और सामाजिक जागृति लाने हेतु इस दिवस को मनाने की घोषणा संयुक्त राष्ट्र...

Read more June 5, 2025 at 6:58 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

World Environment Day: Indian Financial System Funding Infrastructure Projects In The Hills Faces A Himalayan Challenge

Increased frequency of climate-related extreme events in the Himalayan region is leading to project delays and losses as well as cost overruns. The challenge confronting India’s massive financial sector is whether it will be...

Read more June 5, 2025 at 6:31 pm Amitanshu Verma

Affected people strongly oppose illegal land leveling by Adani company

Illegal land leveling work was started by Adani Company in the Adani Anuppur Thermal Power Plant area in Kotma, Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh. The affected people are strongly opposing this. Welspun Company had...

Read more June 3, 2025 at 5:53 pm Deepmala Patel

Burning Waste,Warming cities?

Waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration and urban heat in Delhi. Heatwaves, which are a period of unusually high temperatures as compared to what is normally expected over a region, are increasingly posing a serious threat to...

Read more June 3, 2025 at 3:04 pm The People’s Alliance for Waste Accountability (PAWA)

Why technicalising India’s waste crisis is not the solution

Pushing technological solutions like waste-to-energy plants overlook the social, political and economic aspects of waste. “Trash is treasure when you recycle.” “Don’t waste waste—manage it well!” “Technology can transform waste from a problem into...

Read more June 2, 2025 at 12:37 pm Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

Who Gains, Who Loses? Rethinking India’s Global Trade Moves

India is reportedly planning to open parts of its massive $700+ billion public procurement market to foreign companies, starting with the U.K. and the U.S. This marks a big policy shift. The government claims...

DAY-NULM wound up quietly. Have we removed urban poverty and un-employment?

The Reserve Bank of India, wide its notification RBI/2025-26/39/FIDD.CO.GSSD.BC.No 06/09.16.003/2025-26, announced that the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) has officially concluded on September 30, 2024. Consequently, the Master Circular dated...

Read more May 30, 2025 at 4:52 pm Thomas Franco

जलाशयों की ठेकेदारी, मछुआरों पर भारी

जल के विविध स्रोतों में तालाब, नदी और जलाशय शामिल है। इसी जलसंपदा में मछली की विविध प्रजातियां करोड़ों लोगों के लिए अन्न सुरक्षा देती है तथा मछुआरों के लिए आजीविका का आधार भी...

Read more May 28, 2025 at 5:57 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

The Tariff Wars: India & the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade

Amidst rapidly shifting geopolitical shifts, the first webinar in the series The Political Economy of the Trump Era, titled ‘The Tariff Wars: India and the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade’...