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Amitabh Kant, Harsh Vardhan Shringla join Centre for Policy Research board

The office of the Centre for Policy Research in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photo)
india news
Published on Oct 02, 2025 06:07 pm IST

Ideas for India: The CPR saga is a cautionary tale

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Office of the Centre for Policy Research at Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photo)
opinion
Published on Mar 27, 2024 11:29 pm IST

Centre for Policy Research president Yamini Aiyar to step down

Office of the Centre for Policy Research at Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photo)
india news
Published on Mar 26, 2024 06:23 pm IST

MHA cancels FCRA licence of Centre for Policy Research

Office of the Centre for Policy Research at Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Jan 17, 2024 10:39 am IST

Delhi HC to pronounce order on CPR plea for using 25% of its funds on Monday

Income Tax department surveyed the premises of CPR last year. (X)
india news
Published on Oct 11, 2023 12:30 pm IST

Centre opposes CPR’s plea in high court to use portion of funds in FD

The Centre suspended the CPR’s licence under the FCRA over alleged violation of the law on February 27 (HT archive)
delhi news
Updated on Oct 11, 2023 06:38 am IST

Centre seeks cancellation of CPR’s licence under FCRA

The home ministry also told the court that during the examination of a report of raids shared by the income-tax department, it was revealed that CPR had transferred foreign contributions to other entities (Biplov Bhuyan/HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Oct 10, 2023 08:02 am IST

Oxfam India planned to pressurise govt via institutions like EU: CBI FIR

Oxfam India has not commented on the CBI FIR. (Twitter)
india news
Updated on Apr 20, 2023 02:19 pm IST

FIR filed against Oxfam India for FCRA violation

In its reference to the CBI, the MHA (ministry of home affairs) stated that even though Oxfam India’s FCRA registration is ceased, the organisation “planned to circumvent FCRA by routing funds through other routes”. (AFP)
india news
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 11:56 pm IST

CBI files FIR against Oxfam India, carries out searches at its Delhi office

An outside view of CBI headquarters at CGO Complex in New Delhi. CBI registered a case against Oxfam India on Monday (Sonu Mehta/HT File Photo)
india news
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 10:55 pm IST

Centre orders CBI probe against Oxfam India over FCRA violation

File photo of a high-street branch of an Oxfam charity shop in south London.
india news
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 12:56 am IST

Centre orders CBI probe against Oxfam India over FCRA violations

File photo of a high-street branch of an Oxfam shop
india news
Updated on Apr 06, 2023 06:56 pm IST

Evening brief: Govt suspends FCRA license of Centre for Policy Research

CPR has since 1973 been involved in research with a focus on India’s 21st-century challenges. (Twitter)
india news
Published on Mar 01, 2023 05:00 pm IST

To achieve water and sanitation security, learn from earlier programmes

For instance, while SBM produced rapid gains in access to toilet facilities, latrines do not mean safe management of wastewater, and they don’t enable reuse of waste water because the majority of urban and rural households depend on on-site sanitation systems.
analysis
Updated on Nov 13, 2019 07:55 pm IST

Podcast: Yamini Aiyar on the Hits and Misses of Modi’s Welfare Agenda

india news
Updated on Oct 23, 2019 11:13 am IST

Green norms for project expansion could be relaxed

The environment ministry is considering a number of relaxations in the environment impact assessment (EIA) process that is carried out for development projects, including mining, before they are given the go-ahead
india news
Updated on Sept 30, 2019 07:09 am IST

Environmental rules for expansion of projects may be relaxed

The new notification draft is an effort to reconcile several government and court orders and amendments issued over the years, said a government official.
india news
Updated on Sept 28, 2019 06:48 pm IST

Public school teachers in Delhi are mismanaged: Study

There are 1,024 government-run schools in the city, offering education up to class 12.
delhi news
Updated on Jul 02, 2019 05:58 pm IST

‘Don’t give tree cutting permit for AIIMS revamp’

In February this year, the project got the environmental clearance from the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
delhi news
Updated on Jun 22, 2019 05:52 am IST

How representative are our representatives?

“If campaigns must be self-financed, then candidates may view contesting elections as an investment rather than a sunk cost, leading to greater levels of corruption in office as legislators try to recoup the costs of contesting elections.”
editorials
Updated on May 14, 2019 10:24 pm IST

Green nods eased in 5 years of NDA govt: Official data

Industry executives accept that in the past five years the government has tried to standardise and simplify the process of granting environmental clearances.
india news
Updated on May 13, 2019 08:16 am IST

Podcast: Hindi heartland votes; and Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on Modi economy

lok sabha election 2019
Updated on May 07, 2020 09:59 pm IST

Green impact assessment body defunct for one year, activists demand reconstitution

“We received the environment clearance in February 2017. We have been regularly submitting reports to a monitoring cell formed by the SEIAA,” said a senior official of the DTTDC.
india news
Updated on Apr 22, 2019 08:14 am IST

Timber production forests find place in Forest Act draft

The state government also has the right to impose cess or taxes on the forest land used for such production.
india news
Published on Apr 14, 2019 03:56 am IST

Swachh Bharat Mission gains have come at a cost

An open defecation free village near Gwalior. Sustainably reducing open defecation in rural India would reduce the number of babies who die and would improve the physical and cognitive development of surviving children .
analysis
Updated on Jan 22, 2019 07:57 am IST

Air pollution: India waking up, but there’s a long way to go

India’s air quality presents a major public health crisis. The health risks are pervasive and deep, affect healthy and vulnerable people, and are particularly harmful for our children.
india news
Updated on Dec 22, 2018 10:34 am IST

Delhi has a complex air pollution problem

Air pollution is a multi-headed problem. Solutions need to be tailored to specific characterstics of pollution sources.
india news
Updated on Dec 22, 2018 11:26 pm IST

Activists see red over green scrutiny waiver for real estate projects

Housings and Commercial Real Estate, construction projects in Mumbai.
environment
Updated on Feb 22, 2021 04:13 pm IST

River Ganga may get armed guards with powers to arrest polluters

The corps will be raised by the ministry of home affairs as demanded by the National Ganga Council.
india news
Updated on Nov 01, 2018 09:18 am IST

Steps need to be taken to make campuses socially inclusive : Study

The study noted that compared to others, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students were more likely to be the first in their families or first generation higher education learners
education
Published on Oct 29, 2018 02:35 pm IST
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