'The drought is a policy induced disaster'

'Drought in the 1990s was essentially the drought of a poor India.''This 2016 drought is of a richer and more water-guzzling India.''The severity and intensity of the drought is not about lack of......

A bureaucracy to match Modi's ambitions

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interactions with the secretaries are being seen as a positive move aimed at confidence building among bureaucrats, the underlying implication is that the......

Why Indian bureaucracy is under virtual lockdown

Recent investigations into the telecom spectrum and coal scams have made bureaucrats very wary of taking decisions The lack of energy inside North Block -- the red sandstone building which houses......

Monsoon session ends

The monsoon session of Parliament was on Monday adjourned sine die four days ahead of schedule in the shadow of the government-Opposition stand-off on the Indo-US nuclear deal that disrupted......