The dud of a stink bomb

By castigating the reforms themselves because of the remediable and reversible defaults here and there in carrying them out, Yashwant Sinha is throwing out the baby along with the bath water, says......

Post Air India sale, IAF may own PM's aircraft

The government is also planning to replace the current ageing Air India One or Boeing 747 with Boeing 777s. Arup Roychoudhury and Archis Mohan report. The Indian Air Force might own and......

In a first, PMO assigns work for junior ministers

Breaking a long tradition, the PMO has ensured that specific divisions in each ministry are allocated to junior ministers, report Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Archis Mohan. Within about a fortnight of......

Corporate espionage: More officials may be involved in leaks, say CBI sources

Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday carried out searches in Mumbai on a law firm and a chartered accountant in connection with its probe into alleged sale of confidential government documents......

PSU Disinvestment: Modi Missing The Bus

'Inter-ministerial coordination, information on the proposed PSUs, and due diligence are taking longer than expected to conclude the process.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   In......

Ravneet Kaur: An IAS officer with varied experience

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has named Ravneet Kaur, a Punjab cadre IAS officer of 1988 batch, as chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Kaur will hold the post for five......

Govt Misses Divestment Target

Ahead of the Budget, the government has achieved almost half the divestment target of Rs 65,000 crore.FY23 divestment receipts are unlikely to be anywhere close to the budgeted target.......

BPCL privatisation not on cards for now

Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday indicated that the much-delayed privatisation of oil major BPCL may not happen in the near future, saying there is "no proposal whatsoever" on his table......