Union Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai is retiring on June 30 after 39 years in service. Bureaucrats in India are made of hard stuff but Pillai injected some soft power to the job by making the......
Readers have responded resoundingly to our invitation to congratulate the ISRO team for Chandrayaan-3’s successful Moon landing. Readers greet ISRO: India is proud of you! Dear ISRO......
Indian elections are puzzling, to say the least. In Rajasthan, despite rolling out several pro-poor policies -- such as free medicine and a pension scheme for the poor -- the Congress lost......
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......
Secretary of the Planning Commission, Sudha Pillai, on Wednesday said inclusive growth in India was still an illusion despite efforts to address it.Pillai said a nation should ensure that people......
The government's flagship health insurance programme for the rural poor has drawn increasing appreciation from European and Asian countries. The National Health Insurance Plan for unorganized......
In view of the severe drought and growing prices of essential commodities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a crisis management group of Ministers (GoM) for monitoring the situation on......
Erstwhile Planning Commission Secretary Sindhushree Khullar is believed to have been appointed as CEO of the newly formed NITI Aayog. Khullar's name has been cleared for appointment as CEO of......
Schemes are proposed to become an amalgam of priorities laid down by statesThe new body to replace the five-decade-old Planning Commission is expected to be structurally different from the......