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Stock Doctor

Timing the market not the way to go

The Sensex is well past 17,000, riding the announcement of a half per cent cut in interest rates on federal funds by the...

Tracking

Tracking, October 2007

PROMILA ISSARThe 1979-batch IAS officer of Haryana is the new Chief Secretary of the state. She is the second woman Chief Secretary of...

First Stirrings

The PSUchamp

BELONGING to a middle-class family in Madras, I grew up imbibing certain values from my father, an accounts officer in the Comptroller and...

Mastermind

FELINE DEXTERITY

SO FAR it was deuce.But recent developments indicate the game is now poised at political match point. In Delhi it’s Congress versus Congress...

Talk Time

‘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...

Tracking

Tracking September 2007

AJAY CHADDHAThe 1977-batch IPS officer of AGMUT cadre has been appointed the first DGPof Arunachal Pradesh. FALGUNI RAJKUMARThe 1972-batch IAS officer of Karnataka...

Big Boss
Big Boss

‘We’ throwing out the old system’

Vijayendra Nath Kaul joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1965 after securing a postgraduate degree in history from St Stephen’s College,Delhi.He was sent...

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...

Mandrin Matters

What a fall, my countrymen!

On August 15, India will complete Shastipoorthi, ie 60 years of independence. With the 1948 batch being its first, the Indian Administrative Service...

Tracking

Tracking August 2007

Vijay SinghThe 1970-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh is the new Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. Christy Leon FernandezThe 1973-batch IAS officer...