“We live in an age of urgencyтАж We cannot remain silent onlookers while corporate profiteers, financiers, and their allies peddle false solutions for addressing climate change and implementing sustainable development,тАЭ declared the joint statement...
More NPAs to haunt banks with IL&FS Exposures: The NCLT has asked the banks to consider their exposure to ILFS as NPAs. Earlier NCLT has restricted banks from declaring their exposure to IL&FS prompting...
A Joint Statement The False Promises of Hydropower: How dams fail to deliver the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals┬аby Civil Society Organizations on occasion of the 2019 World Hydropower Congress...
This brief report aims to throw light on the critical lapses and breaches which have been committed during the design, pre-appraisal and Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment тАУ Environment and Social Management Framework (SESA-ESMF)...
Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfaction among 25 per cent customers, Financial Accountability Network (FAN India), has issued a public statement chiding RBI for being...
Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving and current accounts) which banks use for...
“Modi government has granted licenses to 20 small finance banks. The successive central governments have undermined the significance of the public sector banks. Granting license to small finance banks is to...
The crisis in the banking sector is a created one, where the commercial banks have been forced to lend on a large scale to the development projects and to the corporates and which has...
WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of KutchтАУan inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...
The New World Bank President The annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC this year with...
In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to...
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 governmentтАЩs withdrawal of asylum. Interestingly, exactly a month back, on...