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Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they wo...

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Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immun...

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FRDI: Robbing Savings to Pay Corporate Debts

Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 is supposedly the new weapon in the government’s arsenal to...

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Why is the government in hurry to pass the FRDI Bill?

The Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill (FRDI) was introduced by the Union Minister of State for Finance Arj...

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India Needs Good Banks And Not Big Banks

More than 10,000 bank employees and officers from across the country marched from Ramlila Grounds to Parliament on Septe...

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BRICS 2017 Offers Nothing New

For those closely looking at the trajectories of IFIs, especially the current trends of the New Development Bank (NDB) o...

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Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report

Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities a...

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India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick

We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination...

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The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior jour...

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What is Threatening Public Sector Banks in India?

It is an acknowledged fact that the Indian banking system is facing an unprecedented crisis. The problem of bad loans an...

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December 6, 2017

CFA Admin

Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they would approach the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which upheld the entitlement of the World Bank Group to “...

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September 30, 2017

CFA Admin

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity” Contact: Gillian Wilson +1 (202) 466 5188 x114 gillian@earthrights.org September 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. Indian fishing communities and farmers represented by EarthRights I...

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January 23, 2018

Priya Dharshini

FRDI: Robbing Savings to Pay Corporate Debts

Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 is supposedly the new weapon in the government’s arsenal to ‘solve’ the bad loan crisis. This Bill’s stated objective is to form a Resolution Corporation that would ‘resolve’ a financial institution through means of a merger, amalgamation,...

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February 7, 2020

Priya Dharshini

Why is the government in hurry to pass the FRDI Bill?

The Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill (FRDI) was introduced by the Union Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal in the Parliament (Lok Sabha) on August 10, 2017, on the penultimate day of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament. Besides the content of the Bill, there were disrup...

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February 7, 2020

Priya Dharshini

India Needs Good Banks And Not Big Banks

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 governments post-liberalisation and not taking corrective measures to g...

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November 20, 2017

Tani Alex

BRICS 2017 Offers Nothing New

For those closely looking at the trajectories of IFIs, especially the current trends of the New Development Bank (NDB) or the BRICS Bank, well, it’s all pancakes and fritters with news of NDB and BRICS Xiamen Summit all around. The Bank, with 11 projects of over $1.5 billion already in their sack wi...

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November 20, 2017

Anuradha Munshi

Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report

Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch have rejected Asian Development Bank’s Second Annual Monitoring Report to the Board of Direc...

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February 18, 2019

Soumya Dutta

India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick

We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines. As per the “State of Global Air 2017” report, there were over 4.2 million premature deaths in 2015, from exposure to long term air pollution alone,...

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September 3, 2017

CFA Admin

The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and author of Gas Wars alleged that out of this, Rs one lakh crore, the corruption of Rs 50,000 is ‘well-establis...

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February 7, 2020

Priya Dharshini

What is Threatening Public Sector Banks in India?

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 introduced in the name of saving the banking system, the slowdown in the economy, proposal...

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Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

FRDI: Robbing Savings to Pay Corporate Debts

Why is the government in hurry to pass the FRDI Bill?

India Needs Good Banks And Not Big Banks

BRICS 2017 Offers Nothing New

Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report

India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick

The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

What is Threatening Public Sector Banks in India?

Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

FRDI: Robbing Savings to Pay Corporate Debts

Why is the government in hurry to pass the FRDI Bill?

India Needs Good Banks And Not Big Banks

BRICS 2017 Offers Nothing New

Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report

India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick

The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

What is Threatening Public Sector Banks in India?