'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon. IMAGE:......
Was Manmohan Singh focused too much on getting policy right, while Narendra Modi is focused essentially on getting projects moving? Arun Maira's engaging memoir, An Upstart in Government, is well......
'A foot-in-mouth disorder seems to grip the government, and is growing chronic by the day,' says Sunil Sethi. It's another exultant week overseas in the life of the prime minister. But as he moves......
'A lot will depend on the first Aayog and the power it derives.' Rashme Sehgal on what we can expect from the Planning Commission's replacement. One of the main edifices of the Nehruvian era, the......
All members of the Planning Commission have submitted their resignations to the Prime Minister's Office paying the way for reconstitution of the institution. "All members have submitted......
Mr Tata said a letter had arrived in his office from a young woman who had applied for the graduate engineering programme of TELCO Pune and been turned down.'I wouldn't interfere with your......
'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com "I find in many of the schemes the government has, it is......
'When you forgive a farmer's loans there is this ideological economists lobby which says: 'That's socialism. And that's bad'.''But to forgive the loans of big people, so that they will be......
The shortage of officers at the Centre has become so visible that the Department of Personeel and Training in a candid acknowledgment of the shrinking pool asked the states to ‘share the......
Economists say Modi should rein in 'hotheads' and shift narrative back to jobs and growth, rues Arup Roychoudhury The Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance’s loss in the Bihar elections might......
IMAGE: The Indian team, comprising Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari, was beaten by lower-ranked Colombia in the Final Olympic Qualifier, in Paris, on Sunday. Photograph: Kind......