NFRA moves to continuous audit supervision after orders citing ignored fraud reports
New Delhi - An auditor resignation in India used to be an administrative event. Several National Financial Reporting Authority orders now cite exactly that: a company that ignored a departing…
India lost 247 billion labour hours to heat, and records none of it as workplace injury
New Delhi - Heat exposure cost India 247 billion potential labour hours in 2024, a record and a 124 per cent increase on the 1990s average. The associated productivity loss…
Discoms turn a profit, and the customers who fund the subsidy are leaving
New Delhi - India power distribution companies recorded a profit of roughly 25 billion rupees in financial year 2025, after decades of losses. Aggregate technical and commercial losses fell to…
A third of new renewable capacity is being curtailed for want of wires
New Delhi - About a third of India recently commissioned renewable capacity faces curtailment because the transmission network cannot carry what it generates. During solar hours, curtailment on some routes…
Every listed company has a whistleblower channel, and almost none of them work
Mumbai - Every listed Indian company has a whistleblower mechanism. IL&FS had one. DHFL had one. So did Gensol, BYJU and GoMechanic. In each case, internal concerns existed well before…
Mining districts have billions to spend, and affected households still cannot find it
New Delhi - Keonjhar district in Odisha has spent 3,000 crore rupees of mining money on local development over seven years. Whether communities displaced by those mines can point to…
Record coal output alongside record renewables, and what that says about the transition
New Delhi - India expects record coal production of about 1,095 million tonnes in 2026 while adding renewable capacity faster than at any point in its history. Both are true,…
India has sold 2.66 million EVs and built 2.8 per cent of its battery cell target
New Delhi - India has sold 2.66 million electric vehicles in a year and built 2.8 per cent of the battery cell capacity it promised. That gap is the central…
Unspent CSR transfer window widens to 90 days as decriminalisation is proposed
New Delhi - The window for transferring unspent corporate social responsibility money has been widened from 30 days to 90, a change that sounds administrative and materially alters year-end treasury…
Delhi NCR industrial emission deadline slips to October as monitoring lags
New Delhi - The Commission for Air Quality Management pushed back its deadline for large and medium industrial units in Delhi and the surrounding region from 1 August to 1…
