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‘Bar criminals from contesting elections’

gfiles: What are the issues in the forthcoming election? SYQ: Every election is essentially the same, with a little variation. Fortunately, muscle power...

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‘If the Metro rail is Delhi’s pride, thepower sector is ours’

Dr MP Sood is an action-oriented and people-friendly Himachal Administrative Services bureaucrat. Holding a doctorate in plant breeding, he is at present Secretary,...

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‘We must fight against haphazard development’

Pondicherry was just a small fishing village when the French occupied it in 1673. But it soon grew into a flourishing port town...

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‘We are trying to change Indian perceptions about Argentine markets’

Recently appointed India’s Ambassador to Argentina, R Viswanathan joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977. An expert on Latin America, he has earlier...

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‘We are proposing a PIO/ NRI university in India’

A 1970-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre,Nirmal Singh, now Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, has also been Secretary-General of the...

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‘The only thing left is to physically silence my husband’

Today’s RTI,YouTube and internet era could become an effective defence shield for government whistleblowers who face the retaliatory wrath of the almighty state...

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‘Empower field personnel to make on-the-spot decisions’

JP Batra served in the Indian Army before joining the Indian Railways, where he has had a 35- year career and held key...

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Forged FIRs are registered for harassing IAS officers : Reva Nayyar

Reva Nayyar, a 1968 batch IAS officer from Haryana cadre, is a former president of the All-India IAS Officers’ Association. She retired in...

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People consider RTI their law

The CIC belongs to the Jammu & Kashmir cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and retired as Secretary, Panchayati Raj to the...