Report on the Round Table and Workshop: Holding Financial Institutions to Account

The round table on “Financial Accountability: Reclaiming Oversight of Credit and Ethical Investment” and the subsequent workshop on pathways towards transparency of project investments” were organised by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) as...

जनता पर आर्थिक बोझ बढ़ाएगा वर्तमान बिजली खरीदी समझौता

मध्यप्रदेश सरकार भविष्य की जरूरत पूरा करने के लिए निजी कंपनियों से 25 वर्षों के लिए चार हजार मेगावाट बिजली खरीदी समझौता करने की तैयारी कर रही है। कंपनीयों ने बिजली की दर 5.83...

Read more December 6, 2025 at 6:27 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

How Rs 21,000 become Rs 15,00,000 in one month? Will RBI explain?

For many days Facebook is showing apparently an appeal by Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman appealing to every Indian to invest Rs 21,000 immediately as only 1000 can apply now as 80% has been subscribed in...

Read more July 8, 2025 at 5:18 pm Thomas Franco

Increase in ATM Charges and RBI Actions and Inactions

From the first of May, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted the banks, an increase in the charges for ATM transactions above a free limit. The free limit is 5 transactions in...

Read more May 6, 2025 at 11:06 am Thomas Franco

BULA to Kill Self Help Movement

The Government of India, Ministry of Finance, vide their Letter No: F.No.7/93/2024-BOA-I dated 13.12.2024 under the subject: Stakeholder Consultation on Draft Bill to Curb Unregulated Lending Activities – reg., has asked states, ministries, RBI,...

Read more March 25, 2025 at 10:16 am Thomas Franco

सौर से सस्ती होगी बिजली

भले ही दो दिन बाद सर्वशक्तिमान माने जाने वाले अमरीका का राजपाट एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के हाथों में आ जाए जिसमें जलवायु परिवर्तन पर हुआ ‘पेरिस समझौता’ जरा भी नहीं सुहाता, लेकिन लगातार बढ़ता...

Read more January 25, 2025 at 12:38 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Eight Years of Demonetisation – More Black Money, More Fake Currency, More Corruption, More Terrorism, and More Cash in Circulation

On November 8, 2016, the Prime Minister announced the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 currency notes.

Read more November 12, 2024 at 4:26 pm Thomas Franco

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Why RBI’s financial governance should address social and environmental concerns

The Reserve Bank of India released a new draft of the project finance framework in May. To address risks and impacts, it must integrate social and environmental considerations, writes the author of this commentary.

Read more July 24, 2024 at 4:25 pm Amitanshu Verma

Electoral Bonds: Or the Story of How the Rich Buy Their Way Up

The electoral bonds scam has opened up the complex nexus between business and politics, making it visible for all to see – how favours are earned and exchanged by the top 1% even as...

Read more April 11, 2024 at 2:38 pm Kavita Kabeer

KYC – Kill Your Customer?

Last year, a retired scientist received a call purportedly from SBI informing him that his account is blocked for non-compliance of KYC. They sent him a password to be shared with the caller. He...

Read more August 17, 2022 at 10:56 am Thomas Franco

भुखमरी की चपेट में दुनिया | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

पूरी दुनिया खाद्य संकट से जूझ रही है। अगले साल खाद्य उत्पादन में और भी कमी आने की आशंका है। यानि की खाद्य सामग्रियों की कीमतें बढ़ जाएंगी। मुक्त व्यापार पर आधारित अंतर्राष्ट्रीय संधियों...

Read more August 10, 2022 at 11:17 am CFA

Civil society urges for a world without the World Bank | Press Release

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the Board of Governors of the World Bank (WB) Group is having its annual Spring meeting from April 18th- 24, 2022 in order to commemorate another year...

DICGC- To Benefit Govt, Not Customers

The Deposit Insurance Act 1961 came into force from 1st January 1962. Though the name still continues to be ‘Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation,’ the Credit Guarantee scheme was discontinued in 2003. The Deposit...

Read more August 25, 2021 at 12:53 pm Thomas Franco