Bank Nationalisation and the associated public policies on banking and financial sector development were predicated on the strong assumption of the need for promoting financial intermediation by building institutions, expanding their geographical spread, mobilising...
In the year 2017, the Government of India changed the way airport tariffs are calculated in India. Airport tariffs are fees that passengers and airlines pay the airport for using its services, which include...
Since the turn of the 21st┬аcentury, the Indian state has increased its focus on using digital technologies to provide and organise government services. As information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become ubiquitous, e-governance has...
The companies from the infrastructure sector are likely to report decent earnings for the quarter ended March 2021 driven by a sharp recovery in the pace of execution and improved efficiency. The brokerage house...
The Socio-political environment of the second half of 1960s reflected a sense of disenchantment in the growing inequalities spawned by the development processтАУa sense which was highlighted by a series of studies such as...
When India attained Independence in 1947 it inherited a weak, desperate and unwieldy banking structure. Other than the Imperial Bank of India, there were many Indian joint stock banks, but they did not have...
As ambulances siren through streets and social media is filled with desperate pleas for beds, ICUs, oxygen and Remdesivir, phones keep ringing with news of relatives, friends and contacts falling sick and many losing...
There were no public sector banks till 1955. Only on 1st July 1955 Imperial Bank of India was nationalised creating State Bank of India. It is important to know what was banking in our...
Since March 2020, the indigenous people and Adivasi farmers from Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Samaguri Revenue Circle, Nagaon, Assam, have been up in arms against the alleged "forceful" takeover of their agricultural lands...
The Ministry of Coal (MoC), through a notification on ┬аJune 18, 2020, officially launched the process of auctioning coal mines, thus opening up the Indian coal mining sector to commercial operations by the private...
All over the country, people came out in support of the general strike on March 15,16,17 & 18. With thanks to The Research Collective, Delhi, Sneha, Nagapatinam, TN, Defeat Fascist BJP Campaign, TN, Shahri...
The government wants to sell the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is worth about Rs 34 trillion (USD45 billion). The stage has been set with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance...