Speakers & participants from the industry, banking, think tanks, executive, academia and trade unions, along with researchers, climate justice activists and local community members coming together to share, reflect and learn from each other....
Over the last few months, the media has been abuzz with claims of “rapid recovery” and “record growth” for the Indian economy. There have also been claims that the pandemic induced crisis is behind...
Amendment of the banking law has been enlisted in this session of parliament. This is a reversal of the nationalization affected in 1969 and 1980, taking over private banks from business houses that were...
India has been projected as one of the world's most attractive investment destinations as a result of massive economic and policy reforms over the last three decades, focusing on liberalisation and globalisation. The Indian...
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is a non-profit organization based in New Delhi. CFA engages in critical analysis, monitoring and critiquing the role of financial institutions – national and international, and their impact on...
The Tata Group will take over state-owned Air India, marking a successful end to the government’s bid to privatise the national carrier after having failed to sell a majority stake in it in 2018....
Yes Bank Fiasco reveals who is in command! In his recent book, Mr. Rajnish describes a small incident under the chapter ‘SBI Emerges as Saviour of Yes Bank.’ The well-known author Stephen A Schwarzman,...
Natural Resources play a vital role in the development of the human civilisation. Natural Resources served as a source of livelihoods’ sustenance for the Natural Resource Dependent Communities (NRDC), since ages. The NRDC are...
What has happened at COP26 so far? Soumya Dutta reports right from the corridors of COP26.
On November 9, 2016, when journalists approached me as the senior vice president of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation for a comment regarding the demonetisation announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi the previous...
The disruption that the demonetisation of high-value currency notes on November 8, 2016, caused to people’s lives, livelihoods and the Indian economy is still fresh in many people’s memories. The direct impact on the...
It has been five years since demonetisation, the surgical strike on November 8, 2016, on India’s high-value currency notes. With hindsight, it’s clear that the high-decibel crusade supposedly aimed at unearthing black money and...
While the entire Indian economy was disrupted by the demonetisation exercise announced on November 8, 2016, removing high-value currency notes overnight, it simultaneously stirred a serious controversy on the role of Reserve Bank of...
Was demonetisation a good idea, badly implemented? I have heard this from the supporters of the regime but, to my surprise, even friends who are otherwise critical believe this to be true.
The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that lasted several months. Long queues formed outside the banks and ATMs to obtain swap denotified currency notes for...
