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Electoral Integrity: Key to corruption-free India

THE anti-corruption rhetoric has been the flavour of the last several seasons with a political party morphing out of it and briefly capturing...

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Governance

Race for 7 Race Course Road

SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth has a poignant quote: “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it”. This refers to the execution of Thane of...

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Governance

Haryana: From Green to Grey State?

SCHOLARs believe that the name ‘Haryana’ came from the words Hari (sanskrit Harit, ‘green’) and Aranya (forest). At its formation in 1966, Haryana...

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A call to values

General Vijay Kumar Singh, the new Chief of the Army Staff, commenced his innings as head of the world’s second largest standing Army...

Governance

An adhocracy in the making

As part of fast-tracking administrative reforms, the Government of India is evolving a “Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System” (PMES). This task has been...

Governance

The see-sawing scales of justice

There is a singular lack of punishment to be noted in recent cases of corruption involving people in government The blindfolded “Lady of...

Governance

NEARLY two-and-a-half centuries ago, in 1770, Oliver Goldsmith wrote these poignant verses in his pastoral poem, The Deserted Village: “Ill fares the land,...

Governance

Netting the big fish isn’t easy

The Lokpal Bill’s repeated failure to become law is one of many instances of the clout of corrupt public servants In recent weeks,...

Governance

Who’s the biggest Trojan?

Flawed EVMs or money power, the Election Commission is simply shutting its eyes to solutions Weeks before the election to the 15th Lok...

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No meat in your policies, Pranabda

 There is little in the Budget to fulfil the stated goal of re-energizing government so how will it happen? Presentation of the annual...