Travelling abroad will be tougher for civil servants, with the Narendra Modi government further tightening the rules for foreign travel. He may have visited 33 countries in the past year, but......
'There were tears in my eyes when I parted with my medals. I thought was it for this moment did I become a soldier?' In 2008, Captain H Balakrishnan (retired) of the Indian Navy returned all......
We’re behaving like frogs in warm water. We swim around untroubled, cooled by our faith in Indian liberal democracy. We are blind to the bubbles popping around us, the bubbles warning of......
Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters. On the occasion of the Narendra Modi government completing one year in office, Sheela......
All the Gujarat officers have one thing in common. They do not need Modi's 'informal interactions' and advice because they are from the 'Modi school of governance.' They know Modi well......
'The promises of netas and babus and new laws, however well-meaning, mean little.''What matters is implementation on the ground.''Every law is finally implemented by a vast army of officials,......
Those behind recapitalisation are neither aware nor do they care. After all, they have no skin in this game.And the Lok Sabha elections are round the corner.That's what they care about, points out......
While the PM sees zero tax on long-term capital gains and dividend income as unfair since the beneficiaries are not poor, he is silent on the fact that rich farmers too don’t pay taxes, since......
'Under UPA only criminals flourished, during NDA nobody is flourishing' 'Modi should have offered VRS and reduced babudom by 50%' 'Unless the babudom asura is slayed and buried, 2019 will be very......
Three key babus will make room for a new set of officers to carry the baton of Budget programmes. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports. Three key members of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's team will......