How powerful or influential was Ottavio Quattrocchi, who died in Milan last Friday? Quattrocchi lived in India for several years as the representative of an Italian firm, Snam......
As many as 518 posts would be created in the External Affairs Ministry to strengthen India's relations with the rest of the world, the Cabinet decided on Thursday. Of these, 249 posts would be......
'Will Mr Jaitley listen, or is that expecting too much in pre-election season?' asks T N Ninan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com K P Geethakrishnan, finance secretary in the early 1990s, is......
The government on Monday appointed expenditure secretary Adarsh Kishore, a 1969 batch IAS officer from the Rajasthan cadre, as next finance secretary. The post had been lying vacant since DC Gupta......
The World Bank holds India's Fifth Pay Commission as the "single largest adverse shock" to the country's strained public finance, the bank's India Development Policy Review said on......
With several of his Cabinet colleagues appointing top personnel at will in the public sector units under their charge, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has sent off a letter asking them to stop......
In May 2004, the installation of the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre made analysts and experts talk about the return of the 'dream team' to steer the Indian economy to a higher......