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Of hirsute matters

Archana Agarwal, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the UP cadre, is better known as the PPP (public-private partnership) lady of the state and...

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Highway tonotoriety

NOW here’s a dubious record. In less than a year, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) sent three competentChairmen packing. Pradeep Kumar,...

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All in the Som family Founded in 1950, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), weathered the alleged involvement of its former Director-General,...

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Maharashtra’s rich and powerful sugarcane lobby has had its way. The pro-farmer Chairman of the Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), T...

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Garland a cow,win an election Avinash Mishra , a 1979-batch Indian Forest Service officer of the AGMUT cadre and Resident Commissioner of Delhi’s...

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Lalli’s latest shenanigan

The Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, BS Lalli, is on the rampage again. He has built a reputation for highhandedness and lack...

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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...

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Merit gets the boot at NABARD

THE stage for the drama over the appointment of the next Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has...

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What price Shaheed Bhagat Singh?

It seems Prasar Bharati suddenly awoke from slumber and decided to join the nation in celebrating the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh...

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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...