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Piyush Goyal out of the race?

CHARTERED accountant-turned-politician Railway Minister Piyush Goyal is one of the smartest ministers in the Narendra Modi cabinet. Modi also has high expectations from...

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Technocrat PM?

IMAGINE the day when India is governed by a technocrat. Of late, technocrats have expressed their willingness to be Prime Minister, President and...

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Sushasan in Bihar!

EVERY day one reads news about corruption in Bihar. Former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is in jail on corruption charges. There is...

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Passing the buck?

DEMONETISATION, the Chanda Kochchar controversy, absconding Vijay Mallya and the impact of the Nirav Modi case has slowly started percolating down the line...

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Taking up the cudgels

ROHINI Sindhuri Dasari, an 2009-batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre, may have inadvertently joined a growing list of powerful women officers of...

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Virtual pay commission

THE 7th Pay Commission bonanza of Rs 30,748 crore was announced with a big bang by the Narendra Modi government. As many as...

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West Bengal, ahoy

FOR all those who desire to enter Parliament, the BJP has become the new breeding centre. People from all walks of life are...

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Tracking – April 2018

Brij Raj Sharma : The 1984 batch IAS officer of the Jammu & Kashmir cadre has been appointed Special Secretary, Department of Border...

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The Cat is Out of the Bag

IN May 2007, upon the resignation of Dayanidhi Maran, I was asked by my party leadership to take charge of the Ministry of...

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Bric a brac : Railway signals

THERE is a fierce war in the Ministry of Railways over selection of a telecom network model for the much-needed Modernisation of Signalling...