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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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Topic: CPR

Govt scrapped CPR’s FCRA licence over ‘funding for protests’, paper on policy challenges

Govt says think tank ‘misutilised foreign funds to affect India’s economic interests’ in violation of FCRA rules. CPR calls decision ‘incomprehensible & disproportionate’.

CPR’s future in jeopardy after license suspension. Govt must rethink, guard Indian democracy

The Centre for Policy and Research in New Delhi through its work helps Europeans and Americans to revise their understanding of global issues from a distinctly Indian point of view.

Months after I-T searches, think tank CPR’s licence to receive foreign funding suspended

'No question of having undertaken any activity that is beyond our objects of association and compliance mandated by law', says Centre for Policy Research in statement issued Wednesday.

‘FCRA probe’: IT dept surveys Oxfam, think tank CPR, trust that supports independent media

Surveys being conducted in connection with alleged violations under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. 'Registered unrecognised political parties', businessmen also under lens.

‘No anganwadi centres built in 7 yrs because rural job plan was not interpreted correctly’

Rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha said MGNREGA had been misunderstood between 2006 and 2013-14, but since then, the govt has built 2 lakh centres.

‘Well-regulated markets, citizen participation critical for future of the Indian state’

At a session organised by Centre for Policy Research, panel of experts discusses future of Indian State.

Need business models that can monetise crop waste to check air pollution, says TERI chief

TERI Director General Ajay Mathur was speaking on energy and environment, at a session organised by Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research.

Indian courts clogged with land disputes because laws keep conflicting each other

Impartial and efficient management of land is necessary not just for India’s economic development, but also for its political and social stability.

Don’t just blame patriarchy for fewer women in India’s job force. Blame our cities too

Data shows that women are quite willing to work, and men are supportive of it despite patriarchal norms.

India can’t commit to climate change abroad and be non-compliant on environment at home

Government’s hurriedly thought out mechanisms have neither improved environmental performance of projects, nor reduced legal cases against polluting ones.

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Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.