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The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest

Yesterday Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took ref...

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Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report

India’s ballooning NPA and banking crisis is a testimony to the reality whereby infrastructure projects have not only fa...

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Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal...

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Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year

The Financial Year 2018-19, which recently ended, proved to be the most challenging year for the financial world. The fi...

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Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is pre...

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Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector...

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Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually....

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Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed...

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What Are The Bank Charges And Whom Do They Affect?

To access the banking system through various platforms/processes, banks provide different kind of services to depositors...

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Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament

The budget session of the parliament witnessed the members asking government questions related to finance. Some of these...

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April 13, 2019

Joe Athialy

The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest

Yesterday Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took refuge seven years back, after the Ecuadorian government’s withdrawal of asylum. Interestingly, exactly a month back, on March 11, Ecuador clinched a $4.2 billion deal with the Intern...

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May 21, 2019

Gaurav Dwivedi

Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report

India’s ballooning NPA and banking crisis is a testimony to the reality whereby infrastructure projects have not only failed to bring in private capital, but have instead managed to siphon off small savers’ money from public sector banks AIIB has released a report on ‘Asian Infrastructure Finance’ i...

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April 25, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch, and members from the civil society and peoples’ movements from across India have gathered to celebrate a historic legal victory in the US Supreme Cour...

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February 7, 2020

Devidas Tuljapurakar

Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year

The Financial Year 2018-19, which recently ended, proved to be the most challenging year for the financial world. The first and foremost challenge was the introduction of the Financial Regulatory and Deposit Insurance Bill (FRDI Bill) which sought to form a Resolution Corporation that would ‘resolve...

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April 25, 2019

CFA Admin

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is prepared by Rainforests Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honour The Earth. This year, 163 organisations, including Centre for Fina...

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May 21, 2019

Gaurav Dwivedi

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector would be responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys intense focus from the Government for initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world...

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March 9, 2019

Tani Alex

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually. Started by IBRD since 1978, this report is intended to provide deep and extensive analysis on one particular aspect of economic development, every year. The solutions and policy m...

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February 24, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed that between the financial year 2015-2018, India paid Rs 396.775 crore as Commitment Charges to the lending agencies. Rs 396.775 crore, the amount paid for the non-utilisation of ...

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May 1, 2019

Financial Accountability Network India

What Are The Bank Charges And Whom Do They Affect?

To access the banking system through various platforms/processes, banks provide different kind of services to depositors. Bank charge is a fee that banks charge depositors to access these banking services. Recently, banks have started charging depositors for each and every transaction done by them i...

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February 15, 2019

CFA Admin

Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament

The budget session of the parliament witnessed the members asking government questions related to finance. Some of these questions were related to the NPAs, rationalisation of the overseas branches of the banks, charges levied by the banks on various services, disinvestment in the PSUs, commitment c...

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The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest

Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report

Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

What Are The Bank Charges And Whom Do They Affect?

Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament

The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest

Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report

Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

What Are The Bank Charges And Whom Do They Affect?

Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament