COVID-19: Why we must reorganise cities to deal with the third wave

As ambulances siren through streets and social media is filled with desperate pleas for beds, ICUs, oxygen and Remdesivir, phones keep ringing with news of relatives, friends and contacts falling sick and many losing...

Read more May 14, 2021 at 3:42 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन, बुन्देलखण्ड को ख़त्म न कर दे

बुन्देलखण्ड भारत या किसी राज्य का टुकड़ा नहीं है, यह संस्कृति है और यह सभ्यता भी है। ऐसा नहीं है कि कोई इस बात को जानता नहीं है। जानते तो हैं, पर मानने में...

Read more May 13, 2021 at 4:17 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

कोविड के पहले और बाद में बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन

पलायन वास्तव में घातक नहीं है, पर इसे घातक बना दिया गया है। आप कल्पना करके देखिए कि मानव सभ्यता में से पलायन को हटा दिया जाए, फिर इसके बाद की दुनिया के बारे...

Read more May 13, 2021 at 3:47 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

कोविड महामारी और बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन

लेख के शीर्षक में प्रयोग किए गए दो शब्द कोविड और बुन्देलखण्ड जैसे ही हमारे कानों को सुनाई देते हैं। वैसे ही हमारे कान चौकन्ने हो जाते हैं। दोनों शब्दों के सुनते ही मन-चिन्तन...

Read more May 11, 2021 at 3:43 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

How was Banking in the Private Sector?

There were no public sector banks till 1955. Only on 1st July 1955 Imperial Bank of India was nationalised creating State Bank of India. It is important to know what was banking in our...

Read more May 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm Thomas Franco

Assam Fact Finding Report finds ‘Illegal’ Land Grab from Tribals for Solar Plant

Since March 2020, the indigenous people and Adivasi farmers from Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Samaguri Revenue Circle, Nagaon, Assam, have been up in arms against the alleged "forceful" takeover of their agricultural lands...

Read more May 4, 2021 at 1:14 pm Prudhviraj Rupawat

Whither Coal?

The Ministry of Coal (MoC), through a notification on June 18, 2020, officially launched the process of auctioning coal mines, thus opening up the Indian coal mining sector to commercial operations by the private...

Read more April 30, 2021 at 11:29 am Nikhil Varghese Mathew

Glimpses of Public Support to the General Strike

All over the country, people came out in support of the general strike on March 15,16,17 & 18. With thanks to The Research Collective, Delhi, Sneha, Nagapatinam, TN, Defeat Fascist BJP Campaign, TN, Shahri...

Beyond the Frenzy Sale of PSUs!

The government wants to sell the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is worth about Rs 34 trillion (USD45 billion). The stage has been set with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 7:10 pm Edwin

State-Owned Banks: Do We Need Them Anymore?

As an essential part of the financial system, banks’ role in India’s ambitious goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy has become a topic of intense debate. Significant reforms in scheduled commercial banks, mainly...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 4:47 pm Aswathi Nair

Business Correspondents: Modern Day Slavery in Banking Sector

As per RBI Data, as on March 2020 there were 5,41,175 business correspondents in villages and 6,35,046 business correspondents in urban areas. So there are 11,76,221 Customer Service Points covered by the business correspondents...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm Thomas Franco

कोरोना वायरस: ठेका श्रमिकों की बढ़ीं मुश्किलें, ऐसे कर रहे गुजारा

हमारे देश में बिजली पैदा करने का प्रमुख संसाधन कोयला है, पर धरती की छाती चीरकर उसे निकालने वाले मजदूरों की बदहाली जहां-की-तहां है। पिछले साल कोविड-19 के कारण देश भर में लगे ‘लॉकडाउन’...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 3:35 pm Rohit Shivhare

LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Life insurance forms a vibrant part of the financial sector and plays a vital role in the national economy. It mobilizes small savings of the people, converts it into Capital, and makes this Capital...

Challenges Before the Banking Sector Today

The Public Sector Banks have been facing challenges since 1991 with the so-called reform process. Starting from the Narasimhan Committee to P.J. Nayak Committee has recommended reducing Government share. They want banks to be...

Read more April 26, 2021 at 1:20 pm Thomas Franco

New DFI for Infrastructure Projects in India

Last month the government introduced the Development Financial Institution (DFI) Bill in Lok Sabha to boost funding for infrastructure projects. The bill seeks to establish the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development to...

Read more April 26, 2021 at 1:01 pm Shivani Dwivedi

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