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First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Perception and prejudice
WHEN Madhukar Gupta, an alumnus of Allahabad University, decided to appear for the civil services examination in 1970, he was only following a...
Cover StoryThinking out of the box
UNION Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu says governance is like ‘intel’ (informal for intelligence), not so visible yet most important for any government, department...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Trustee of public interest
MUKUND BIHARI KAUSHAL (73) says he attended three schools in his life—government schools in places like Bareilly, Kanpur, Haridwar and Etawah and schools...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Captain of the people
IT was like yesterday. Brijesh Kumar Gupta had just entered Niranjan Talkies in Allahabad to watch a movie when he heard shouts of...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : For whom the bells tolled
IN the early 1960s, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) had a halo around it, thanks to the legacy of the British Raj that...
Cover Story7TH PAY COMMISSION How full are the coffers?
BETWEEN 2003-04 and 2007-08, it was boom time for the Indian economy. Propelled by stupendous growth in manufacturing, transport, communication and construction, the...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : Rising above caste affiliations
FOR Ashok Nath, the 1966-batch UT-cadre IAS officer, the events started unfolding even before he appeared for the civil services examination. The septuagenarian...
First StirringsFirst Stirrings : The Insider
IT was at an early stage of his career that Shantonu Sen, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-cadre officer recruited in the investigating...
Talk Time‘Noida better than Gurgaon’
Why is law and order so bad in Gautam Buddh Nagar district? Where is it bad? A perception has been created. It is...
GovernancePension jolt
After being dubbed anti-farmer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government faces the prospect of being branded anti-labour as serious discontent is brewing in central...
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