In 2015, farmers and fishworkers from rural India sued the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., over impacts from a disastrous coal-fired power plant project that they said destroyed their livelihoods and damaged their...
Doing business report isn’t about economic milieu; it’s about lax regulations. This refers to your editorial, ‘Serious business’ (IE, November 2). It notes the improvement in India’s ranking, but also strikes a cautious note...
For Immediate Release A Resolute NO to Merger! Unions and Opposition Unite to Fight Merger of Public Sector Banks! New Delhi, November 2, 2018: “Under the present government, the Lion in the Make in India...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in a dispute over immunity for the International Finance Corporation, an international organization that makes loans to private businesses to finance projects in developing countries. The...
The recent appointment of SBI’s Former Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya’s as an Independent Additional Director at the board of Reliance Industries Limited has sparked public debate on the post-retirement career of senior employees of the...
New Delhi, November 3, 2018: “The Union government is pushing through the merger of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) with a misplaced notion that fewer stronger banks will be “too big to fail”. It’s ironical...
The Banks have been levying bank charges for providing various services like ATM card, chequebook, annual statement, and transactions. These charges directly affect the poorest sections of society. In August 2018, the Union Minister of State...
October 31, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a landmark lawsuit that will decide if international organizations are absolutely immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts....
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, narrating the history of violations by the IFC, Tata Mundra Power Plant and Peoples’ Resistance to it. The MAAS filed a case in the US federal...
October 31, 2018, New Delhi.: The Supreme Court of the United States of America heard the oral arguments in the historic case filed by the villagers from Mundra, Gujarat against the absolute immunity granted...
In the run-up to this week’s Supreme Court hearing, the IFC has announced a series of new policy reforms that strengthen its social and environmental commitments, an effort that is undoubtedly motivated in part...
भारत सरकार देश के विकास के नाम पर बड़ी ढांचागत परियोजनाओ के निमार्ण पर पिछलें कुछ दशकों से लगातार बल दे रही है। इन परियोजनाओं को भारत के सकल घरेलू उत्पाद की वृद्धि दर...
अधोसंरचना, ख़ासकर ऊर्जा के नाम पर हमारे देश में जो हो रहा है उसे सार्वजनिक सम्पत्ति की खुल्लाम-खुल्ला लूट के अलावा क्या कहा जा सकता है? मध्यप्रदेश सरीखे राज्य में जहाँ ख़ुद सरकारी दस्तावेज़ों...
This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s power plants on various fronts over the past decade — forceful land acquisition, environmental damage caused to communities, toxic pollution due to large-scale coal-fired...
The plaintiffs contend that the plant’s construction caused saltwater to leach into the local groundwater. They say that the plant’s ‘cooling system discharges thermal pollution into the sea, killing off marine life on which...