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The Indian club that outlasted the British may not survive ModiThe Indian government has moved to evict the historic Delhi Gymkhana Club from its 27-acre site in central Delhi, saying the land near Prim...- West Bengal’s Delhi wall may disappear: What schemes could BJP rule in Kolkata unlock?West Bengal's long-standing political clashes with the central government over welfare schemes are set to change. With the BJP now in power...
- India must leverage its digital verification architecture to evolve into a trust-based economyIndia faces a low-trust economy with high friction, exemplified by complex KYC norms. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted this ...
- 'Brutal tool of economic injustice, corporate cronyism': Rahul Gandhi slams GST, calls for reformCongress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on its eighth anniversary, calling it a tool of "corporate cronyis...
- Take on the bane of bureaucrat-ocracyDonald Trump has appointed Kash Patel as the new FBI director to reduce bureaucratic overreach. In India, the decentralisation from the Pan...
- 'Colonial mindset': Supreme Court schools bureaucrats for mistreating sarpanches, discriminating against womenThe Supreme Court criticised the bureaucratic tendency to undermine elected women representatives in panchayats, highlighting a case from C...
- Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire: ReportPresident-elect Donald Trump's transition team is preparing a list of military officers to be dismissed. The list reportedly includes the J...
- States can't make serving bureaucrats election commissioners, says Supreme CourtThe ruling came in a case involving Goa, where the BJP government gave law secretary ‘additional charge’ of the state election commission. ...
- View: Passenger fare hike must to push Indian Railways on reform trackRail minister Piyush Goyal has been able to get these reforms through by artfully maneuvering through the maze using a ‘carrot and stick’ p...
- Government designates Ajay Bhushan Pandey as the new Finance SecretaryPandey, a senior IAS officer with a BTech from IIT Kanpur and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, spent more th...
- View: If it moves, tax it. That's desperate, IndiaHaving lost the fiscal plot, bureaucrats are trying to marshal resources by squeezing taxpayers.
- CAG 'deliberately delaying' report on Rafale deal, demonetisation: Former bureaucratsThe letter claimed that there were reports that the audit of the Rafale deal would be done as late as September 2018, but the related files...
- Delhi HC asks assembly panel not to insist on CS's appearance before it"After giving a statement on March 5, the complainant (Question and Reference Committee) immediately issued notice notice to the Chief Secr...
- Kafka devises renewed terror for India's startup angels: GadflyTaxing capital assets is hardly a novel idea. Many jurisdictions, including the US, impose a levy on stock-market gains.
- Experts stress need to re-look Section 66A post verdictChandrashekhar had argued that Section 66A was unconstitutional because in the name of securing the internet and in the name of preventing ...
- Domain regulators must probe fraudsAll sectoral regulators should be tasked with preliminary investigation in their respective domains — such as Sebi for market manipulation.
- The SC strikes in favour of governanceGovernance is effectively crippled when politicians are free to shuffle civil servants at will, to shunt out “undesirables” and bring in th...
- Ministers slam CBI for naming KM Birla in FIR; fear that it may trigger derailment of economyCorruption charges by CBI against Kumar Mangalam Birla could have an adverse impact on the investment climate.
- Judicial Appointments Commission will outnumber judges to politiciansThe last bastion of India’s hope, judiciary is being attacked by the very politicians who have subverted India’s democracy.
- Government ownership of banks must not interfere with regulationsThe ministry is concerned that while PSU banks have largely been able to insulate their loan books, they have not been as successful. It wa...
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