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Governing Defence

The post-kargil shakeup

Changes in higher defence management show sincerity but the pace is slow In recent times, India has undertaken a comprehensive review of its...

Bric a Brac

Hooda, the land shark

Duping farmers As a result of the unprecedented property boom in the National Capital Region of Delhi, NOIDA and Greater NOIDA in UP...

Governing Defence

The challenge lies in our minds

The nation’s defence planning and strategy need top to bottom overhauling India’s emergence as an economic power of global significance and our essential...

Governing Defence

Albatross aboard the MoD deck

Registering agents without singling out defence purchases is a likely solution The recent cancellation of the Eurocopter deal due to the alleged presence...

Governing Defence

The war within

Civil-political control over the armed forces turned into a bureaucratic stranglehold The decline in the governance of defence has become so stark that...

Governing Defence

Systemic phobias

The process is trapped in the Bofors-HDW-Kargil coffins straitjacket Higher defence management is a complex national governance challenge in most democracies and the...

By the Way

Nitish’s policing problems

1972-batch IPS officer, Ashish Ranjan Sinha, has been having the time of his life ever since Bihar Governor Buta Singh appointed him Director...

Tracking

Tracking January 2008

CM BHATT The 1974-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre has been appointed DG (Technical) in the state JAYANT PRASADThe 1976-batch IFS...

First Stirrings

ROMESH BHANDARI : RELUCTANT DIPLOMAT

THE best moment of my foreign service career is related to the hijack of August 24, 1984. Seven young terrorists hijacked an Indian...

Pravasi Divas Special

Foreign countries fight for Indian travellers

New travel and tourism data just published by Euromonitor International predicts that the number of tourists travelling from India will more than double...