Governance

Governance

Money has no colour

In para 102 of the Budget Speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a new comprehensive law on black money to specifically deal with...

Governance

Pension 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...

Governance

A systemic rot

KARNATAKA’S crusader-IAS officer DK Ravi’s murder or ‘coerced’ suicide—yet to be established through independent investigation—has thrown the system into a tailspin and has...

Governance

e-retailers flouting law

AMAZON, the US online retail giant, has admitted that there are huge question marks over its Indian operations. In a recent filing with...

Governance

Where is it heading?

WAY back in 1894, a report by the State Fish and Game Commissioner of North Dakota cautioned that short-term thinking on environment and...

Governance

Will Kindle curb spying?

HISTORY seems to be repeating itself in the corridors of power in New Delhi. Three decades back, as Rajiv Gandhi was trying to...

Governance

Baby and the bath water

THE needs of the country and people are centred mainly on security issues (internal and external, food, water and power), social welfare programmes...

Governance

Importing a nuclear albatross?

THE Indo-US nuclear jugalbandi (duet) commenced in July 2005 with then US President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signing an...

Governance

Back to Roots

ON January 22 this year, when Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, visited Mahendragarh, an arid town in South Haryana where...

Tobacco: A Catch-22 situation
Governance

Tobacco: A Catch-22 situation

Annual loss of over Rs. 25,000 crore (over Rs. 19,000-crore excise duty and around Rs. 6,000-crore worth of foreign exchange) which accrue to...