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From Planning to Transformation: An uphill task!

AT The Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in mid-January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out his Transformation Agenda in no uncertain terms. After...

RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE

ADDITIONAL Secretary in the Union Coal Ministry AK Dubey proudly remembers an incident involving his friend and Kerala cadre colleague KM Abraham, now...

Retired or re-tyred?

THERE was a time when government employees retired at 55 years of age. The received wisdom was that most people died at 50...

Retirement blues and the ‘joy of doing nothing’!

Retirement Blues… FOR India’s civil servants there are two kinds of retirement—one, compulsory (at age 60) and two, voluntary (after 20/30 years of...

To retire now or later?

THE little murmur about increase in the age of superannuation of Central government employees has been quashed for the time being by the...

Counting old as gold

SEBI: Turning a blind eye

Recently, SEBI cracked down on India’s biggest realty company, DLF. It barred six of its top executives, including promoter-chairman KP Singh, from entering...

His Master’s Choice

WHEN institutions of faith crumble, it hurts. As Peter F Drucker says, “No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen...

Exploiting the loopholes

From big sharks to small fish, the Indian financial system is a haven for conmen and swindlers. All kinds of individuals, structured associations...

Cheat funds

SUNANDA, the wife of a peon in an advertising agency, secretly invested Rs 1,000 every month in a ‘chit fund’ which promised to...