Samsung India Workers Form First Union After 7-Month Struggle in Tamil Nadu
After 38 days of protest and 212 days of legal battle, the Tamil Nadu Labour Department registered the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)-backed Samsung India Workers’ Union (SIWU) on January 27, marking a victory for the labour movement. The union, Samsung India Thozhilalargal Sangam, registered under the Trade Unions
Vizag Steel’s Revival Plan Ignores Core Reform: Mine Access
On January 15, when the rest of Andhra Pradesh celebrated Sankranti, the employees of Vizag Steel stood firmly outside the Visakhapatnam steel plant in protest. They demanded their pending salaries—In fact, since September 2024, their salaries have been inconsistent. But that did not stop employees from working at the steel
India’s Startup Revolution is No Longer Soaring Skyward. Lack of Consumption Demand and Funds are to Blame
Prime Minister Narendra Modi poses for a selfie during the launch of “Startup India”, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on January 16, 2016. For 2024, the Hurun Research Institute’s Global Unicorn Index showed that India’s startup ecosystem had slowed, with the number of unicorns down for the first time
How Adani Enterprises Engineered Tribal Consent for Mining in Protected Hasdeo Forest in Chhattisgarh
For over 11 years, Hasdeo Arand, central India’s largest unfragmented forest and the last surviving pristine forest, has echoed with the cries of resistance and been stained with the blood of those who have dared to stand up for it. On the morning of October 17, 2024, the villagers of
Stringent Economic Policies and Growing Militancy have Left People in J&K Feeling Frustrated with the Centre
In September 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Jammu city, five years after the party he leads at the centre hacked away Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and ended its statehood. “The Jammu region in particular faced decades of injustice at the hands of the
How AAP’s Trickle-up Economics Offers an Alternative Path of Development | Book Excerpt from ‘The Delhi Model’ by Jasmine Shah
Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal, flanked by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi (right) and party leader Manish Sisodia (left) during the book launch of Jasmine Shah’s The Delhi Model, in New Delhi on December 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Shahbaz Khan/PTI Ahead of the final leg of the 2024
SUM AND SUBSTANCE | India’s Middle Class is the Biggest Loser of 2024
In a year of “yes, no, maybe” both the Reserve Bank and the Finance Ministry now agree that the country has a growth problem. If they had been listening to what consumer goods companies have been saying for a while, they may have reached that conclusion sooner. India’s festive season
Frontline At 40 | ‘Making lives better’: Interview with Amartya Sen
Nobel Laureate and noted Economist Amartya Sen visits Chennai on December 26, 2005. | Photo Credit: SHAJU JOHN Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He is a renowned scholar of social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines,
France in Turmoil: Prime Minister Michel Barnier Ousted in No-Confidence Motion Amidst Economic Crisis
When Prime Minister Michel Barnier unveiled his deficit-reduction plan in October, promising to bring down the public deficit from around 6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 3 per cent in 2029, it was seen as an attempt to steer the French economy into calmer waters. But on
The Adani-Modi Nexus Faces Its Greatest Test
To contend that the indictment of Gautam Adani, his nephew, and their associates, in the United States has dealt a blow to the ambitions of one of India’s, and the world’s, richest men, would be an understatement. The prominent tycoon, whose proximity to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the stuff