Governance

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Governance

Flying at Cruising Altitude

THE positive impact of globalisation is undeniable. Since 1990, 1.1 billion people have been lifted from poverty. The world is growing richer and...

Rise-and-take-the-bull
Governance

Rise and take the bull by its horns

CIVIL Services in India have commanded an elite status ever since the first Indian, Satyendranath Tagore, was selected as an Indian Civil Services...

EVMs
Governance

Replace paperless EVMs with VVPAT EVMs

To Mr OP. Rawat, Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Sunil Arora, Election Commissioner Mr Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Sadan,...

Keeping-the-target
Governance

Keeping the target in sight

THE United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet and to ensure that all people...

CBDT’s circulars
Governance

Disquieting Governance

I have been contemplating a short article on the disquieting nature of governance for some time. This desire got hastened after media reports...

OIL-ICON
Governance

The fuel dilemma

IN December 2016, India’s apex environmental body Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) released a 14-page study about the ill-effects of Furnace Oil (FO...

Governance

Sagarmala Corporate Colonising of India’s Coast?

SAGARMALA (sea garland) project is a humungous Rs. 8 trillion (Rs. 8 lakh crore) port-led-prosperity investment initiative of the Government of India (GoI)...

income-inequality-cash
Governance

Regulating wealth

WHEN US President Donald Trump announced a reduction in corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 21 per cent, there was almost...

Governance

The omniscient bureaucrat

YOU love them, you hate them; you praise them, you decry them; but, you can neither be rid of them nor ignore them....

Governance

All that glitters isn’t Modi

KUCHCH din to gujaro Gujarat main! Only then can you visualise the entrepreneurial spirit of money-making adventures that grips the soul of a...