Urgewald, a German environment and human rights NGO, which claims to be working for establishing strong environmental and social standards for the international finance industry, has called India "the number one hotspot of the...
While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine alone and its effect on fuel prices, it is the food inflation that has seen a much sharper upward swing.
भारत का लक्ष्य 2022 तक अक्षय ऊर्जा यानी रिन्यूएबल एनर्जी (अक्षय ऊर्जा या नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के उदाहरण हैं – बायोगैस, बायोमास, सौर ऊर्जा इत्यादि.) से 175 गीगावॉट बिजली उत्पादन करने का था।
Energy Transition has been the talking point in recent years thanks to the alarming climate change events and the atmospheric CO2 levels. India has the third highest carbon emissions in the world.
The Money Trail As the date of the #G20 Summit is drawing nearer, the Union Government is becoming more and more intolerant. Its clampdown on the We20 Peoples’ Summit is the latest. When the...
As India prepares to host the 18th edition of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi in early September, the pomp and show on the streets - wall graffiti, banners, manicured walkways, and hoardings...
India holds the Group of 20 (G20) presidency from 1 December 2022 - 30 November 2023, after swapping it with Indonesia in 2022, and the 18th edition of the Leaders’ Summit is going to...
The Money trail The Indian government is celebrating G 20 Summit as the panacea for all maladies and the proof of its global acceptance. But behind the hype and fanfare lies a murky reality...
Name of the Publication: India & G20: Legacy & Prospects for Multilateralism amidst a Polycrisis. Edited By: Sonal Raghuvanshi Foreword By: Prabhat Patnaik Afterward By: Patrick Bond Illustration: Soumik Lahiri Published by: Arpita Das...
India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life.
Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours...
What Thomas Piketty shows us in A Brief History of Equality, with solid data over time, is that at the beginning of the 20th Century, direct taxes amounted to about 10% of the economy...
India’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran’s assertion last a few days back as reported by newspapers, that the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) was not necessary for India and ‘it may create...
The Indian government has kept its eye on billions in revenue from the polluting petrochemical industry while making half-hearted measures to curb plastic use.