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Caution! No mines ahead

INDIA received a not so envious accolade last week when the Fraser Institute (one of world’s top think tanks) dropped the country from...

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Why Gujarat result scares Shivraj?

Has the BJP high command reduced Shivraj Singh Chouhan to a pariah among Chief Ministers of the BJP-ruled States after the Gujarat election?...

I was Deputy Commissioner Hissar when Haryana was formed in 1966, and thus was with Haryana from the very beginning.
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STATE SCAN : Normalising corruption

A raging political storm over appointment of Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta provides enough and apt indications as to how the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government...

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State Scan : Wages of one-man show

SINCE June this year, good news seems to have stopped coming for the Shivraj Singh government in Madhya Pradesh. Worse, frequency and intensity...

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Janus-faced Shivraj

MADHYA Pradesh’s bureaucracy is baffled at an apparently Janus-faced Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Like the Roman god Janus that is depicted with...

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Metro : Myths

IN 2016-17, over a billion people rode the Delhi Metro. On some days, over 3.5 million boarded the trains. Based on similar high...

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FARMERS’ STIR IN MADHYA PRADESH : Self delusional edifice crumbles

THE farmer stir that claimed six lives in police firing in Mandsaur on June 5 may have petered out, but its aftereffects are...

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Paresh Baruah rings alarm bells

THE turning point came on the 4th of June, 2015. On that day, after being dormant for fifteen years, the North-East rebels proclaimed...

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UTTAR PRADESH : Making the State investor friendly

UTTAR PRADESH is the most populous state in India, with a large pool of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour. Alternately, the population is...

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1968 batch IAS officers reacted on the lynching of Pehlu Khan at Alwar, officers wrote an open letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister

To, Ms. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Dear Ms. Vasundhara Raje, We are very disturbed by the lynching and murder of...