We now have a system where a potato expert is looking after defence, a veterinary doctor is supervising engineers, and a history graduate is dictating the health policy.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Fixed tenures sound like good administration in theory. In practice, an officer is often appointed to such a past a few days – or even a few hours – before he is due to retire. That in effect gives him a two year extension. The CJI does not have a fixed two year tenure, retires punctually at 65, sometimes in the middle of the month. Look back to the apex of the civil service, where cabinet secretaries are now averaging four year terms, courtesy extensions, and recall one incumbent who has left footprints on the sandy banks of the Yamuna.
Fixed tenures sound like good administration in theory. In practice, an officer is often appointed to such a past a few days – or even a few hours – before he is due to retire. That in effect gives him a two year extension. The CJI does not have a fixed two year tenure, retires punctually at 65, sometimes in the middle of the month. Look back to the apex of the civil service, where cabinet secretaries are now averaging four year terms, courtesy extensions, and recall one incumbent who has left footprints on the sandy banks of the Yamuna.