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Governance

delhi railway station
Governance

Making an organisation tick

ORGANISATIONAL excellence is the need of the hour, and I wonder what excellence in organisations is really all about. Perhaps it is about...

NGO-partnership
Governance

Linking the last mile

LOCAL participatory development is a strategy that is being deployed by governments in developing countries to achieve a variety of socio-economic goals. These...

Governance

Another trade to dupe?

THERE was a time when Jignesh Shah was acclaimed as a pioneer in developing the commodities and futures industry in the Indian subcontinent....

Medical-services-for-senior
Governance

Demographic bulge ahead!

INDIA has traditionally enjoyed a robust joint family system taking care of elderly persons. However, the sweeping currents of globalisation and transcending cultures...

Narendra-Modi
Governance

Race for 7 Race Course Road

SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth has a poignant quote: “Nothing in his life/Became him like the leaving it”. This refers to the execution of Thane of...

Fukushima-nuclear
Governance

Strengthening the AERB

RADIATION and radioactive substances have many beneficial applications, ranging from power generation to uses in medicine, industries and agriculture but the risks that...

gurgaon-infra
Governance

Haryana: From Green to Grey State?

SCHOLARs believe that the name ‘Haryana’ came from the words Hari (sanskrit Harit, ‘green’) and Aranya (forest). At its formation in 1966, Haryana...

Governance

Storming the Bureaucratic BASTILLE

These headlines in UP newspapers show that the power of governance has at last reached the doorstep of the common man, never mind...

Governance

Gross inequality of income earners

The standard deduction provision should be applicable to salaried individuals who indirectly incur expenditure for earning income Income tax can be a very...

Governance

Urban cowboy or arm of the law?

The occurrence, and routine acceptability, of encounter killings stem from both politicization and a colonial legacy An Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate has held that...