Thermostat Setting: India's Cool Move

'Are there other ways to reduce the energy airconditioners consume?' asks Ambi Parameswaran. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff   'For the first time, India will mandate setting airconditioner......

How Modi Has Changed Babus

At the PMO, policies are framed by factoring in analytical perspectives, implications, sustainability, and other dimensions. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The past 10 years have......

SC says Bihar babus suspended for bridge collapse brought back

The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Bihar government observing its officials were suspended after incidents of bridge collapse but brought back after the furore died down. IMAGE: People......

Babus coached Bofors execs on shielding Rajiv Gandhi: Book

Senior Indian bureaucrats had "tutored" Bofors officials in a "secret meeting" in 1987 on "how to absolve then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of all blame" in the infamous bribery scandal, according......

Union Budget 2016: Who are the 'Jaitley Babus'?

Senior New Delhi-based journalist R Rajagopalan, who has been closely following the Union Budget preparations since 1977, lifts the veil off India’s most secretive operation. With......

Will the real Mr Modi please stand up?

Human memory about policy issues is short.That alone can explain why many are deliriously happy with his latest slogans and ignore seven years of poor 'doing business' climate, taxtortion,......

Bihari babus better-paid

Although Bihar is far behind other states in almost all development indices, its government employees are much better paid than their counterparts at the Centre and even developed states such as......

Don't the babus need a phoren summer break?

Codgers on holiday in rising India! Growing foreign travel is one sign of the radical change in rising India’s vacation dynamic. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com. As scorching......

Heads will roll if babus delay athletes' incentives: Sports Minister

IMAGE: Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Photograph: PTI Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Monday said he will not hesitate to sack his officials if they delay sanction of......