WHEN I first heard the policy pronouncement of the new government that the Planning Commission was going to be abolished, I felt like...
ByMK KawFebruary 8, 2015ByMG Devasahayam and MK KawFebruary 8, 2015
IN his first flush of governance reforms, the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the Planning Commission and its replacement with the National...
ByPrabhat KumarFebruary 8, 2015AT The Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in mid-January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out his Transformation Agenda in no uncertain terms. After...
ByMG DevasahayamFebruary 8, 2015ADDITIONAL Secretary in the Union Coal Ministry AK Dubey proudly remembers an incident involving his friend and Kerala cadre colleague KM Abraham, now...
ByNarendra KaushikJanuary 7, 2015THERE was a time when government employees retired at 55 years of age. The received wisdom was that most people died at 50...
ByMK KawDecember 5, 2014Retirement 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...
ByMG DevasahayamDecember 5, 2014THE little murmur about increase in the age of superannuation of Central government employees has been quashed for the time being by the...
ByPrabhat KumarDecember 5, 2014Recently, SEBI cracked down on India’s biggest realty company, DLF. It barred six of its top executives, including promoter-chairman KP Singh, from entering...
ByAnil TyagiNovember 4, 2014