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Stock Doctor

Markets are in for churning

The sub prime mortgage crisis and subsequent US Federal Reserve’s 0.5 per cent cut in interest rates saw a mad rush of FII...

Tracking

SHISHIR JHAThe 1987-batch IRS officer has been appointed official spokesperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. KAVITA PANDEYThe 1990-batch IRS (IT) officer...

First Stirrings

I WAS born in a middle-class farmer family in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. I was very good in studies but burned the...

Governance

The unheralded policeman

IN 1948, when the first batch of the Indian Police Service graduated, the nation welcomed it. It was a laudable idea to have...

Governance

What’s so secret, anyway?

THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has received a good deal of flak lately over raids conducted as part of an investigation. A...

Mandrin Matters

Propagating a greed culture

The Sixth Pay Commission has taken up the onerous tasks of focusing on good governance and sprucing up the bureaucracy to provide cutting-edge...

Mandrin Matters

PRUDENCE above PAISA

As we await the Sixth Pay Commission’s report, it is encouraging to read the assertion by its Chairman in the October 2007 issue...

Global Scan

Mussoorie to the rescue

IT is widely acknowledged that India’s public services, particularly the executive grades, have maintained high standards. The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) has always...

Special Report

Destroying the LAW

●Raveena Singh (name changed) topped in MSc (Chemistry) and then reluctantly appeared in the Police Recruitment Examination of Uttar Pradesh on the insistence...

Out Of The Box

Changing the THER MOSTAT

WHENEVER I ruminate on the subject of the search for energy security, I look back 900 years into history and marvel at India’s...