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Ecostani | Billionaire Raj: India's rising inequality questions country's governance model

India, March 24 -- A report by the World Inequality Lab shows that 1% of the wealthiest Indians hold one-fourth of the country's wealth, higher than countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and t... Read More


Ecostani| What does commissioner Arun Goyal's resignation before the 2024 elections say about the Election Commission?

India, March 10 -- All is not well it seems, in the Election Commission. Unable to curb electoral malpractices such as the use of muscle and power, it supported opaque electoral bonds (recently struck... Read More


Ecostani | Himachal imbroglio is a commentary on the Congress high command

India, March 5 -- Sometime in January, rebel Congress legislator Rajinder Rana complained to the Congress high command about the "high handedness" of Himachal chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, in... Read More


Ecostani | A call to battle, and fight will be pitched

India, Feb. 26 -- India has a long history of all kinds of mashed-up alliances, sometimes with contrary ideologies, to garner votes. The 2024 election is one such poll where both the Indian National D... Read More


Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party - and the BJP, too

India, Feb. 19 -- Since Jayant Chaudhary, president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with influence among Jats in western Uttar Pradesh, announced that he would be part of Bharatiya Janata Part... Read More


Ecostani | A national MSP law will be a tribute to MS Swaminathan

India, Feb. 13 -- The farmers are once again on the path of confrontation with the Central government. In 2020, they spent a year-long sit-in along Delhi's borders to protest against the government's ... Read More


Ecostani | Jan 31: ED arrests JMM chief. Feb 5: New CM, from JMM, wins trust vote

India, Feb. 5 -- The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led ruling grand alliance won the trust vote with a clear majority in the state assembly on February 5, five days after its chief and Jharkhand chief ... Read More


Ecostani | New resolve to help 10 million homes aim for the sun needs new incentives, reduced financial burden

India, Jan. 28 -- The day after the Prana Pratishtha ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, prime minister Narendra Modi launched a scheme to install 10 million solar rooftops in the country. "On the... Read More


Ecostani | Why EU's carbon tax puts a spanner in climate change mitigation

India, Jan. 17 -- India is likely to take the European Union (EU) to the World Trade Organisation over its proposed "restrictive" carbon tax on imports for six emission-intensive sectors on grounds th... Read More