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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicJICA

Topic: JICA

Louis Berger scam in rear view, JICA wants ‘highest standards of ethics’ as it talks to Goa again

Japan International Cooperation Agency is in ‘early stage’ of discussions to finance Rs 2,000-cr power project in Goa, JICA India chief representative Saito Mitsunori has said.

Forest clearance, prime BKC plot in bag, Shinde govt clearing minor roadblocks for bullet train

Within 2 months of coming to power, Shinde govt gave forest clearance, signed shareholder agreement & handed over prime Bandra Kurla Complex plot for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project.

Lent Indian banks Rs 4,400 cr over 10 years for renewable energy work, JICA India head says

Japan International Cooperation Agency's India chief says agency has provided funds to Indian financial bodies since 2011 with the aim to create about 7.3 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.