Month: November 2016

By the Way

Servants of the system

It was a tough task to organise Haryana’s 50th Year Golden Jubilee Celebrations at Gurugram on November 1. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal...

By the Way

Arundhati : Reward for keeping quiet

It’s a serious exercise to choose a successor to a serving Chairman of Public Sector Undertaking Banks. The way SBI Chief Arundhati Bhattacharya’s...

By the Way

I am better than others!

Some officers are very sensitive about the prefix before their names if they happen to be a doctor. If any notification by DoPT...

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Perspective

Perspective : Health cultures

TRADITIONAL health cultures everywhere are founded on a basic premise: that the human organism is naturally geared for health. Since the body is...

GS-Sood
Stock Doctor

Stock Doctor : Worrying times ahead

DESPITE pricy valuations of Indian market at around 20 times FY17 earnings, most of the analysts I have talked to are not too...

First Stirrings

First Stirrings : The fair administrator

WHEN Gopal Krishna Pillai (67) joined as Sub Collector in Kollam (then Quilon) in July 1974, his first job after passing out from...

State Scan

PM pats Manohar Lal’s back, praises Haryana for all-round development

For the first time any State in the country celebrated its 50th anniversary in such a grand manner like Haryana did on November...

State Scan

Why is the RSS angry with Shivraj?

HOW dare he say that and that too two years ahead of the assembly elections?” fumed a senior RSS leader when a journalist...

Governance

IDS, a misconceived idea

THE Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS) ended on September 30, 2016 and the gains and losses from it can now be assessed. According to...

Silly Point

Silly Point : The anatomy of surgery

THESE days the only topic of conversation in the Indian sub-continent and the surrounding SAARC region is Surgery. The last time when surgery...