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Khera and his kitchen garden

It is well known that the de facto boss of the Sheila Dikshit Government in Delhi was Pawan Khera. After sister Rama Dhawan,...

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High and dry

The move to disband the six-decade-old Planning Commission has created a furore among the 500-strong Indian Economic Service (IES) officers. Nobody has thought...

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Hush-Hush!

The corridors of the Women and Child Development Ministry currently have an eerie silence. An incident within has struck at its very foundation....

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Make my India

Everybody is anxiously waiting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open his magic box and solve the country’s problems once and for all....

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Who will be the Cab Sec?

By the end of October, the Narendra Modi government has to select a new Cabinet Secretary of India. If the current Cabinet Secretary–Ajit...

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Significantly insignificant

ADalit wrote the most important policy document of the nation, our Constitution. But 68 years on, there have been very few IAS officers...

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Powerful JS

How was Ashish Kundra, a 1996-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, appointed as an administrator of Daman & Diu and Dadra and...

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Shadows of power

The State of Haryana holds a very crucial position for the Congress—not for political reasons but for economic ones. The interesting part is...

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Lost on the highway

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping, might not be aware of what is happening in the National Highways Authority...

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Shame to the service

The recent sacking of the graft-tainted couple Arvind and Tinoo Joshi from the Indian Administrative Service will surely go down in the annals...