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Holding Businesses Accountable For Biodiversity Loss https://thefrontiermanipur.com/holding-businesses-accountable-for-biodiversity-loss/
By The Frontier Manipur On Jan 16, 2025  The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity back in 2022, had mandated that businesses be held accountable for their impacts on biodiversity and for resources shift from subsidies that are harmful to nature while initiating projects ...The Trellis survey found that sustainability professionals want their companies to move faster to prevent habitat loss and species extinction, while four-fifths said that the companies they work for are not doing enough to address nature and biodiversity. More than half of the surveyed population said the lack of staff and expertise is holding back efforts on the initiative.

What Kind of Budget Does India's Banking Sector Need  https://youtu.be/Dtg8auJvEe0

Thomas Franco Social activist and former Gen Sec of the All India Bank Officers' Confederation  Budget 2025: What's at Stake?', Thomas Franco dissects the government’s claims of a banking ‘turnaround,’ as highlighted in the last Economic Survey. Are declining non-performing assets, rising bank profits and increased financial inclusion as promising as they seem? 
He also evaluates whether successive budgets have truly delivered on credit support for MSMEs, including MUDRA loans, during financial stress. Finally, Franco outlines what a credit-sensitive budget should prioritise, sharing key recommendations for strengthening the nation’s financial system.

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As A Deadly Artillery Range Turns Tourism Hub In Kashmir, Families Of Those Killed Battle For Compensation Sajad Hameed And Qazi Shibli
Wednesday 22 Jan, 2025 The Tosa Maidan Bachao Front (TBF), an advocacy group of victim families and civil rights activists, said in a 2017 petition for compensation in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that at least 54 had died between 1974 and 2014, including farmers, shepherds, and children.  The court ordered, on 16 December 2024, that petitioners should send copies of death certificates for 30 more people who died on Tosa Maidan to the union government and that “after verifying” the documents, authorities are to “process cases for grant of compensation”.