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Back to Roots

ON January 22 this year, when Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, visited Mahendragarh, an arid town in South Haryana where...

Tobacco: A Catch-22 situation
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Tobacco: A Catch-22 situation

Annual loss of over Rs. 25,000 crore (over Rs. 19,000-crore excise duty and around Rs. 6,000-crore worth of foreign exchange) which accrue to...

Be wary of lobbyists
Governance

Be wary of lobbyists

IN order to take the reform process—the Naya Daur (new era) initiated by Narendra Modi—to its next level, it may be imperative that...

administration prajapati trivedi
Governance

It is the system, stupid!

THE now famous slogan, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’, is given a big chunk of the credit for the election-winning campaign of Bill Clinton...

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Governance

Inspector Raj bleeds economy!

AJAY Jain and Saurabh Jain regret the day they decided to shift their textile industry from Jind (Haryana) to Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh)....

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Jignesh Shah The end game begins

THE higher you go, the greater your fall. Two, there are no permanent mai-baaps to break your fall each time you land in...

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Modi Governance: Quo Vadis?

THE day of Christmas (December 25) was observed as Good Governance Day to celebrate the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee....

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Governance

Unlocking value for shareholders

COMPANIES must be managed in a manner so as to create maximum value for all its stakeholders. Over the past few years, several...

Governance

RE-EXAMINE, RE-ENGINEER, RE-ENHANCE

THE central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) have a vital role to play in transforming India into a world-class global manufacturing hub. But to...

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India needs an Implementation Commission

AS a development economist, I have often repeated the following familiar story to my audiences. It is said that the study of economics...