A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the...
The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a ┬а6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common...
A PeopleтАЩs Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured...
Though not explicitly stated in the QurтАЩan, waqf has been extensively used in Islamic history to assist with community development and support. The word тАЬWaqfтАЭ comes from the Arabic word┬а тАЬWaqafa,тАЭ which implies to...
Random Reflections The government and banks, which write off crores of depositorsтАЩ money to benefit the wealthiest, make a hue and cry when farmers or disaster-affected people demand loan waivers. Disasters occur frequently across...
This report while examining the capital investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Pension Funds (PFs) reveals a┬аgrowing interest in infrastructure projects, amongst these institutional investors. This trend stems from the attractive security provided...
The second stage of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC)┬а owned Gadarwara Thermal Power Plant located in Narsingpur district of Madhya Pradesh, 2*800 (1600 MW) is currently in process. The minutes of the March...
India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...
The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not...
