How to make the biggest public service serve Private Corporates https: //www.cenfa.org/how-to-make-the-biggest-public-service-serve-private-corporates-learn-from-bjp-government/ The Government under Narendra Modi issued a licence for a Payment Bank instead of a Universal Bank which could give loans also.
Though it was announced that 1,55,015 post offices and 3,00,000 postmen will provide doorstep banking services, it has not been done. Now Airtel Payment Bank has 5,00,000 neighbourhood banking units and more than 155 million users. On the contrary, IPPB has 90 million users.
As no loans can be provided by a Payment Bank, IPPB has become an agent of Axis Bank, FIBE, HDFC Bank and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd for personal loans.
What is more shocking is that the IPPB has signed a strategic partnership with Aditya Birla Capital Ltd, a small NBFC. This will help the private lender to use the services of the present number of 1,64,972 post offices and lend its customers at a high rate of interest. More such are likely to come.
IPPB could have become the biggest public sector bank serving people in their 89% rural branches. Instead, it’s given on a platter to the private sector to exploit.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/
Francesca Albanese
The Special Rapporteur urges Member States:
(a) To impose sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel, including all existing agreements and dual-use items such as technology and civilian heavy machinery;
(b) To suspend/prevent all trade agreements and investment relations, – and impose sanctions, including asset freezes, on entities and individuals involved in activities that may endanger the Palestinians;
(c) To enforce accountability, ensuring that corporate entities face legal consequences for their involvement in serious violations of international law.
The Special Rapporteur urges corporate entities:
(a) To promptly cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with, contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people, in accordance with international corporate responsibilities and the law of self-determination;
(b) To pay reparations to the Palestinian people, including in the form of an apartheid wealth tax along the lines of post-Apartheid South Africa.
The Special Rapporteur urges the International Criminal Court and national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes.
The Special Rapporteur urges the United Nations:
(a) To comply with the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 2024;
(b) To include all entities involved in Israeli unlawful occupation in the United Nations database (to be accessible on the OHCHR website).
The Special Rapporteur urges trade Unions, lawyers, civil society and ordinary citizens to press for boycotts, divestments, sanctions, justice for Palestine and accountability at international and domestic levels; together we can end these unspeakable crimes.
This report is written at the cusp of a profound and tumultuous transformation. Globally witnessed atrocities require urgent accountability and justice, which demands diplomatic, economic, and legal action against those who have maintained and profited from an economy of occupation turned genocidal. What comes next, depends on all of us.
Have Signed Up Free Trade...': Sanjeev Sanyal Speaks On India-U.S. Trade Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7ISaKKqMY
India has already made free trade deals with countries like the UAE and the UK. He also said that the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shouldn’t bring back old systems that no longer work.