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 …
In Short
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
Letters
Letter
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