New Delhi: Indian philosopher and political strategist Chanakya may have written the Arthashastra 2,400 years ago. But on Wednesday, the Allahabad High Court cited...
A recent Allahabad High Court order questioning UP police over missing honorific for Anurag Thakur in an FIR has triggered concerns over hierarchy creeping into criminal procedure.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
Prakash took VRS in 2024 after he found himself without a posting in Naidu govt. He says he was also denied central deputation, reflecting on politicisation of Indian bureaucracy.
The change is palpable at lower levels, too. According to data from October 2024, approximately 64 out of the 236 joint secretaries—27 percent—serving in the government, were women.
A senior leader sought feedback Saturday in Jaipur. This comes at a time when Rajasthan govt has been at the receiving end of criticism from its own party leaders and workers.
It feels that different responses to tragedies can not be shaped by what happened, but by who was involved and what political story can be built around it.
Carriers joining the fuel stabilisation scheme will buy ATF at predetermined rates backed by a Rs 10,000-crore fund approved by Union Cabinet, says civil aviation ministry.
An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.
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