For immediate release How International Investors Can Stop Rampal Power Project, the Worldâs Most Dangerous Coal Plant Report Shines a Light on Hidden Backers of Worldâs Most Destructive Coal Project October 12, 2017, New...
More than 10,000 bank employees and officers from across the country marched from Ramlila Grounds to Parliament on September 15, 2017. They were marching to protest the anti-people banking reforms being implemented by successive...
For those closely looking at the trajectories of IFIs, especially the current trends of the New Development Bank (NDB) or the BRICS Bank, well, itâs all pancakes and fritters with news of NDB and...
The ‘Privacy Judgement,’ where a nine-member Supreme Court bench counted the right to privacy as a fundamental right, redefined the rights of a citizen and put limitations on the state to be invasive of...
We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants â from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines. As per the âState of Global Air...
For Indian corporations, the grass seems to be getting greener the other side. Investments and acquisitions abroad have been the hallmark of Indian corporations the past decade and a half. While acquisitions of Jaguar...
August 23, 2017, New Delhi: âThe corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,â said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...
It is an acknowledged fact that the Indian banking system is facing an unprecedented crisis. The problem of bad loans and the need for a capital infusion, drastic changes in financial policies, new legislation...
August 10, 2017, New Delhi: âThe government, which is arguing against the right to privacy in Aadhaar, is fighting for the privacy of large corporate defaulters,â said eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has raised...
Conversations on Finance Understanding Goods and Service Tax (GST), its impact and implications GST, as a concept, introduced by the UPA government in the budget speech by Chidambaram, is a reality today. Pranab Mukherjee,...
Anuradha Munshi International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is going to invest up to $6 billion in the next five years on various sustainable and renewable energy programmes in...
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...
The union cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has recently approved the proposal to introduce the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament. The...
Like India once had a Ministry of Disinvestment, it’s time she has a Ministry of Loss Making. How else can one understand governmentâs eagerness to buy out all loss making projects, whether in coal,...