Month: May 2015

By the Way

Legal loopholes

There is simmering tension between the judiciary and executive due to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). There seems to be a deep-rooted...

By the Way

The new boss

Civil Services Day, celebrated in April this year, was quite different from earlier celebrations. There were new faces and a new thrust. The...

By the Way

Khattar’s dual support

When Manohar Lal Khattar took over as Chief Minister of Haryana, he had virtually no experience in governing. It was a peculiar situation...

By the Way

No family time

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has advised bureaucrats to spend quality time with family as the government needs humans in offices and not robots...

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Perspective

Perspective : Essence of intellect

We live in times when the human intellect has been given a role utterly disproportionate to its intended function. This is due to...

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Stock Doctor

Waning sentiments?

WHEN analysts start talking of India as a good long-term story for five to 10 years, that itself is indicative of what lies...

Silly Point

Silly Point : Outwitting Mufti

SARVANAND is the pen name of an astute Kashmiri Pandit who has been a close observer of the mind games being played out...

Governance

Money has no colour

In para 102 of the Budget Speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a new comprehensive law on black money to specifically deal with...

Civil Services Day

‘Sheelam Param Bhushanam,’ Modi tells civil servants

You should be proud to tell your grandchildren what you did, affecting the lives of common people by taking decisions in favour of...

Bric a Brac

Whose Haryana?

MANOHAR Lal Khattar has been a simple social worker who enjoyed his life working with the RSS for 40 years. He had never...