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Copycat growth is the evil

For a predominantly agricultural country like India, in which 650 million of our 1.05-billion population earn meagre livelihoods, the effects of global warming...

Big Boss

‘The partyin power is invariably unhappy with us’

Election Commissioner SY Quraishi has never been afraid of challenges. An IAS officer of the Haryana cadre (1971 batch), he realized when he...

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Bric a Brac

Headless chicken and absenteeism

There is an interesting sideline to the drama of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Sources say our envoy to the US, Ronen Sen, will...

By the Way

Virbhadra bendsover backwardsfor Priyanka

Himachal Pradesh is fast becoming the preferred haunt for high-profile politicians of every hue, while for the common man such aspirations remain a...

Tracking

Tracking, October 2007

PROMILA ISSARThe 1979-batch IAS officer of Haryana is the new Chief Secretary of the state. She is the second woman Chief Secretary of...

Talk Time

‘We are proposing a PIO/ NRI university in India’

A 1970-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre,Nirmal Singh, now Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, has also been Secretary-General of the...

Tracking

Tracking September 2007

AJAY CHADDHAThe 1977-batch IPS officer of AGMUT cadre has been appointed the first DGPof Arunachal Pradesh. FALGUNI RAJKUMARThe 1972-batch IAS officer of Karnataka...

By the Way

Nitish fishes for Bihar officers

With a reputation for valuing governance, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is in need of upright officers to develop the state and rid...

Stock Doctor

Long-term investors can take stock

The defaults in sub-prime mortgages and related securities in the US had a considerable impact on the global liquidity scenario. This could have...

Bric a Brac

Tina Dixit sitting pretty; high command quandary

Let us hark back to the time when that formidable gang of three – HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar – was...