Kerala’s proposed flagship Silver Line project claims to be a gamechanger, but at what costs?Dubai Metro Rail, photo courtesy: pxhereKerala’s flagship Silver Line project, a semi high speed rail corridor passing through 11 districts between Thiruvananthpuram and Kasargod is not technically a “Bullet...
Students of a women’s college in Pune. Picture courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
On August 24, Delhi University witnessed a vehement protest by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) outside the Vice Chancellor’s office. Inside, the academic council was meeting to reinstate the Four-Year ...
At COP26, India announced its objectives to reach net zero by 2070. In addition, the country aims to install 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030, 450 GW of which would come from renewable energy sources. India has set an ambitious renewable energy capacity target. By the end of the decade, India a...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above. Of the 1,680 such projects, 438 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.34 lakh crore and 539 were delayed....
Stop Adani Campaign, Australia
The recent deal between Adani Capital and the State Bank of India has raised eyebrows. State Bank of India was known as the people’s bank, and it could rightly claim that it was ‘the largest bank serving the smallest man.’ Since the year 1991, things ...
3rd Energy Finance Conference India
December 14-17th, 2021
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Theme: How Clean is Green Financing?
Understanding the National and International Landscape, Investors & its Efficacy
Organisers:
The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability, IIT-Madras
Centre for Financial Accountability
...
Infantile Jubilance: The numbers they don’t show
The claim that there has been a record recovery may seem correct on paper. Comparing the figures for growth in quarter ending in June 2021 – 22 with June 2020-21 there is a 20.1% recovery rate, which is the highest growth in India, since the qua...
AIIMS, Delhi
In an interview of Joseph Stiglitz that appeared in Investopedia on 23 April 2020 he said “Covid 19 reminds us that when we have a crisis we turn to collective action and to government.” What became very crucial in countering the pandemic are the collective actions in which civil societ...
This booklet is a result of webinars under the World Without World Bank campaign that brings together activists, academicians and other civil society groups to protest, respond to the World Bank’s neoliberal reforms. In 2020, the Working Group on International Financial Institutions started this cam...
3rd Energy Finance Conference India
Theme: How Clean is Green Financing?Understanding the National and International Landscape, Investors & its Efficacy
Date: December 14-17, 2021On Zoom PlatformRegistration: bit.ly/efci2021
Green finance is now central to the idea of building a ...
