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Government Schemes Fail at the Last Mile?

India funds large-scale welfare programmes — yet benefits rarely reach the people they’re meant for. India funds large-scale welfare programmes, but audit reports...

Karamvir Singh Boudh
Politics

Congress backs a Dalit wildcard in Haryana 

The Congress has pulled a rabbit out of the hat at the last minute by giving Karamvir Boudh, a Dalit, the lone Rajya...

Personality

Nehru: A beloved of every Indian householder

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, statesman, secular humanist, social democrat, and author who was a central figure in India during the...

kamalnath
State Scan

Beware! The lotus eaters are on the prowl

IT’S tempting to project the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections to be held later this year as a Kamal vs Kamal contest—the BJP’s party...

Special Report

Bodies created to root out corruption are misused to protect the corrupt: Samal

In three years as Vigilance Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh, Ramchandra Samal did not release a single report. But, a week after retiring on...

Out Of The Box

Up, Up And Away?

My parliamentary constituency is rural. It is crucial we bring growth across the board. No longer can India survive in terms of islands...

Mayawati
Mastermind

Mayawati’s Trishul

As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...

Manmohan Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad
Mastermind

Courting the king

When Dr Farooq Abdullah ruled Jammu and Kashmir, he was known to forcefully assert thathe and he alone was the Chief Minister. In...

By the Way

Our very own Bhupi Bhai of Haryana

In the corridors of power, it’s often not so much what’s in a name but behind it that matters. Take the case of...