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Clash of the mandarins

Raisina Hill may not be as high as Everest but getting to the top of this bureaucratic mountain involves an effort that leaves...

Major’s words on war

The media-friendly Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, recently invited the capital’s journos to dinner. And, to their pleasant surprise,...

Up in arms against a uniform!

Notwithstanding a discernible disquiet, moves are afoot to create a new post of coordinator in the Union Home Ministry. It is envisaged that...

Caught between Maya and deep blue CEC

The bureaucrats loyal to UP Chief Minister Mayawati are faced with a peculiar predicament owing to the imminent parliamentary elections. On the one...

Land sharks in high places

Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Gen. SF Rodrigues is at daggers drawn with Minister of State for Finance and Union Banking Minister Pawan...

Mumbai attack cost IB chief dearly

Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s was not the only head to roll in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack. The axe has also...

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...

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,...

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...