Govt ushers in de-layering in bureaucracy, jt secretary reports to secretary

The Centre has taken a major step towards increasing efficiency in decision-making by empowering joint secretaries to report to secretaries directly, officials said on Wednesday. Joint secretaries......

Modi In 7,980 Photographs...

What some of our political leaders were up to on Monday, November 28, 2022.   IMAGE: Rivaba Jadeja, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Jamnagar North seat, greets BJP Supremo......

All The Muslim Union Ministers

It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet. After Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigned as the Union minister of minority affairs......

Shah, Sitharaman stand tall among ministers

Strengthening the portfolios of the home minister and the finance minister is a message that should not be missed, points out A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with......

Is India's economy crashing?

Or do we need to retool our country, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Open any newspaper or news Web site and the bad news is unrelenting. It looks like a whole slew......

Railways tops in corruption complaints: CVC

As many as 12,394 complaints of alleged corruption were received against railway employees.     Railways has topped a list of government organisations against which complaints of alleged......

Forecasting media's future

Ajit Balakrishnan recalls some lessons from the last time people talked of 'convergence' -- the mid-1990s. Image: In the 1990s, convergence itself was a word used in two different senses.......

Marans' luck runs out, can they bounce back still?

With the home ministry rejecting the renewal of broadcast licences to Sun group, is it end of the road for Maran brothers? R Ramasubramanian reports from Chennai. It’s black Monday for the......

PIX: Aamir-Sanjeeda, Keith-Rochelle on the red carpet

Television's swish set walk the red carpet. The 17th Indian Television Academy Awards took place on November 5 at the Versova Model Town Ground in Andheri, a western Mumbai suburb. Union......