Month: December 2015

By the Way

Making amends for amending an Act

Narendra Modi’s efforts to bring in Foreign Direct Investment are bearing fruit but the big-ticket companies are waiting and watching regarding Vodafone’s alleged...

By the Way

Snafu in PSUs

Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) are crucial for any government but it’s very difficult to understand their complete network and they are dealt with...

By the Way

Kejriwal driving his babus away

Rarely do street protest leaders turn into good administrators on taking hold of the reins of government. There are umpteen examples to cite...

By the Way

You’re incompetent, Chhota Rajan sneers at CBI

They say that crime is usually a step ahead of the law. Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje aka Chhota Rajan was certainly ahead of the...

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Stock Doctor

Consolidate in the lull

POST the September quarter earnings, the market may remain bearish in the short to medium term due to stretched valuations with earnings not...

Leisure

Land of ‘The Jungle Book’

THE Pench Tiger Reserve and its neighbourhood is the original setting of Rudyard Kipling’s most famous work, The Jungle Book. The terrain of...

Politics

Social upsurge

THE outcome of the fiercely contested Bihar assembly polls has given a new direction to Indian politics to open avenues for mobilisation of...

Politics

After the Bihar storm

BIHAR has once again changed the paradigm: in 1917, Champaran set the tone for the freedom struggle; in 1974, the JP movement heralded...

Governance

The strategy of silence

IN politics, consummate players have to know when to speak and when to be silent. Manmohan Singh lost his gaddi because he maintained...

Governance

Civil services: pay, perk and performance?

TEN years ago, when the Sixth Pay Commission gave a hefty hike in pay and perks to civil servants, it also entered a...