Governance
Dreaming of Olympic laurels!
WHEN the BJP-led government came to power in May 2014 with the clarion of ‘demographic dividend’, boasting of India’s youth power, one expected...
One order, many yardsticks
IT is common with CBI investigations that the agency arrests only the main accused during the investigation stage and the chargesheets are filed...
Governance : Why change the financial year?
ONE morning’s newspapers carried the news that the central government has decided to consider a change in the present Financial Year [April 1...
Indian Agriculture : Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change
ONE of the major achievements of the country has been food self sufficiency in spite of rapid population increase, which has reached about...
Governance : Force for Good…
AVIATION is not just connecting people and shifting goods,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO in his report on the air...
IATA’s Dublin AGM: Blocked funds raise concerns
HISTORIC Royal Dublin Society was aesthetically decorated in the first week of June to host the 72nd International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual...
Governance : Indian democracy’s underbelly: Time to clean-up
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi prostrates before Delhi’s Parliament House, venerating it as ‘Temple of Democracy’. At Capitol Hill in Washington DC, he uses...
National Civil Aviation Policy: Better late than never
INDIA finally has a National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP)—a good 25 years after private airlines were allowed to fly in Indian skies; a...
Transport infrastructure: A tough road ahead
TRANSPORT is an important part of the infrastructure required for a country’s growth. It brings mobility to people and goods. Transport is intimately...
NAMAMI GANGE : Purifying the Purifier
FOR countless millions, the ‘tripathgamini’ Ganga, the story of India’s civilization, is a river of eternal faith and deliverance, a ‘baitarni’. The promise...