As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...
ByAnil TyagiAugust 7, 2007On August 15, India will complete Shastipoorthi, ie 60 years of independence. With the 1948 batch being its first, the Indian Administrative Service...
ByMG DevasahayamAugust 7, 2007Vijay SinghThe 1970-batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh is the new Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. Christy Leon FernandezThe 1973-batch IAS officer...
ByTeamAugust 7, 2007I took the civil service examination by chance. But I stood first in the country in the examination. During the interview, the UPSC...
ByTeamAugust 7, 2007In the corridors of power, it’s often not so much what’s in a name but behind it that matters. Take the case of...
ByTeamMay 7, 2007The markets have shed a lot of flab and future direction is still unclear. International factors such as the impending US slowdown, the...
ByGS SoodMay 7, 2007On May 15, 1998, Rajesh Pilot, P A Sangma, Tariq Anwar and Sharad Pawar were sitting in the latter’s house in New Delhi...
ByAnil TyagiMay 7, 2007the 1948 ICS topper recalls how a young nation took momentous decisions Strange are the ways of destiny. Even though I had no...
ByAnil TyagiMay 7, 2007Reva Nayyar, a 1968 batch IAS officer from Haryana cadre, is a former president of the All-India IAS Officers’ Association. She retired in...
ByTeamMay 7, 2007When R S Pandey assumed charge as chief secretary of Nagaland in June 2000, the state had schools where teachers played truant, hospitals...
ByTeamMay 7, 2007