'Frequent flyer' PM slashes foreign visits by babus to 4 a year

Travelling abroad will be tougher for civil servants, with the Narendra Modi government further tightening the rules for foreign travel. He may have visited 33 countries in the past year, but......

'Our enemy is not Pakistan or China; it is our babus'

'There were tears in my eyes when I parted with my medals. I thought was it for this moment did I become a soldier?'   In 2008, Captain H Balakrishnan (retired) of the Indian Navy returned all......

Modi@1: Exclusive interview with Amit Shah!

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters. On the occasion of the Narendra Modi government completing one year in office, Sheela......

The people are silent

We’re behaving like frogs in warm water. We swim around untroubled, cooled by our faith in Indian liberal democracy. We are blind to the bubbles popping around us, the bubbles warning of......

BJP upset over Swamy's tirades against Jaitley, top babus

There is concern in the organisation and the leadership over the unbridled criticism aimed at the Finance Ministry.  IMAGE: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks at ‘Invest in......

Hard times for babus, as Modi stops 1st class travel

Unveiling an austerity drive to trim fiscal deficit, the government has banned first class air travel for bureaucrats, meetings in five-star hotels and purchase of cars while freezing new......

Reforms are about implementation, not announcements

'The promises of netas and babus and new laws, however well-meaning, mean little.''What matters is implementation on the ground.''Every law is finally implemented by a vast army of officials,......

Mr Modi, let's have same rules for ALL rich Indians

While the PM sees zero tax on long-term capital gains and dividend income as unfair since the beneficiaries are not poor, he is silent on the fact that rich farmers too don’t pay taxes, since......