PRIME Minister Narendra Modi admires Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for his foresightedness in reposing faith and continuing with the Westminster Model of governance after...
ByAnil TyagiAugust 19, 2017Lateral hiring may sound like an exciting concept, but it is a flawed one for several reasons. For one, it will destroy what...
ByMG Devasahayam and Prabhat KumarAugust 19, 2017WRITING in the March 2011 issue of gfiles I had raised a poser whether there is hope for civil services to survive and...
ByMG DevasahayamAugust 19, 2017PRIVACY invades almost aspect of our lives. Sadly, slowly but surely, privacy is vanishing out of our lives. You switch on the phone,...
ByAlam SrinivasAugust 19, 2017DOMESTIC steel industry is still recovering from the last years’ global slump in the sector followed by largescale dumping in India, particularly from...
ByK. SUBRAMANIANAugust 19, 2017MADHYA Pradesh’s bureaucracy is baffled at an apparently Janus-faced Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Like the Roman god Janus that is depicted with...
ByRakesh DixitAugust 19, 2017IN 2016-17, over a billion people rode the Delhi Metro. On some days, over 3.5 million boarded the trains. Based on similar high...
ByAlam SrinivasAugust 19, 2017IN the nearly hour long speech that Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered on the ‘CA day’, on July 1, 2017, which also happened...
ByTN PandeyAugust 19, 2017IT was a house and family commitments that more or less brought Vinod Vaish into civil services. Son of Nihal Chand Vaish, a...
ByNarendra KaushikAugust 19, 2017BRAIN drain has always been catalysed by crooked and corrupt system prevalent in India. As a result, Indians not satisfied by no or...
BySadia RehmanAugust 19, 2017