Tata Mundra power project blamed for falling fish catch

Project yet to become fully functional has already destroyed creeks and mangroves, says report 

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Tata Tea under scanner for poor living condition and coercion of workers

World Bank authorises enquiry after investing US $8 million in the global beverages company

Secretive tribunals, hidden damages

Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …

India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable

Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …

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100 smart satellite cities on anvil

Push for urban development through PPP and FDI

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

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IFC’s green claims ring hollow

Analysis of media reports on Indian projects financed by the World Bank arm

Net equality

A campaign to protect Net neutrality has sparked a debate on how to keep the Internet open to all. There are differing views on what neutrality …

States get bigger share from Central taxes, freedom to restructure programmes

For the first time, finance commission has recommended giving weightage to forest cover of states for devolving funds

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

The deprived lot

Andhra Pradesh fails to allocate funds stipulated for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, says Cabinet panel

25% accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana are repeat accounts, admits bureaucrat

Modi government plans to revive cash benefit transfer scheme of previous government

Midday meal may be outsourced

Schools in Maharashtra do not want responsibility, say the scheme hampers teaching

Harsh Vardhan seeks tax of Rs 3.5 per stick on cigarettes, bidis

Earlier increase in tax ineffective in deterring smokers as it focused on length of cigarettes and led to production of shorter length cigarettes,…

Reaching for the sun

Micro-financed solar energy systems light up Bangladesh’s rural areas

Setback to health insurance

Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers

Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds