Month: October 2016

Governance

IRON ORE PRICES NMDC continues to suffer losses, voluntarily

WHAT happens when a leading mining company, which is majority-owned by the government and also listed on the stock exchanges, deliberately sells its...

Governance

The United Budget of India

MEDIA reports of late have been agog with news about the changes to be made in the Union Budget, inter-alia, with the prospect...

State Scan

KMP Expressway Subhash vs Abhimanyu

THE ray of hope for the completion of the prestigious Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway (KMPE) project is still far away. This is perhaps the war...

Cover Story

Cover Story : The cost of warmongering

B“ased on very credible and specific information which we received yesterday that some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the...

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Eyes wide shut

The malady of political interference

IN the last seven decades, innumerable studies on civil services have been conducted from time to time. They have been read, commented on...

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Bric a Brac

Maal kisi ka, kamaal kisi ka

THE newly appointed strategist of the Congress party, Prashant Kishore, approached Rahul Gandhi with a `72-crore mega-plan for Uttar Pradesh. Rahul told him...

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Bric a Brac

Rafale Deal

IT took 15 years to discuss the deal with Dassault Rafale. Then, overnight, India concluded an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) with France for the...

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Silent Ram Jethmalani

ONCE upon a time, Rajni Patel, President Bombay Pradesh Congress Committee, Justice YV Chandrachud and Ram Jethmalani were considered the Trimurti in Mumbai....

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From the Editor

From the Editor

NATIONAL security is one of the biggest issues of governance. If the security of a nation is lax, the havoc that could be...

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Bric a Brac

Kingdom of cheats!

Afew days ago, the Haryana government held the Golden Jubilee’s logo release function at Gurugram with great pomp and show. The state government...