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This was the house that Nehru builtNarendra Modi has appropriated something of Nehru’s larger-than-life aura.- PM takes 'Quattrocchi mama' jibe at Sonia Gandhi, says Congress upset over transparent defence dealsThis was the prime minister's first public comments after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to the BJP government on the Rafale deal.
- Makings of a modern vestiarian crisisAre judges a tad too hard on bureaucrats appearing in bundi jackets?
- Army still to get 1.86 lakh bullet-proof jackets a decade after demandIt was way back in 2009 that defence acquisitions council had cleared the acquisition of 1,86,138 such bullet-poof jackets since Army was s...
- Indian Army grapples with arms, gear shortageParrikar on Friday told Lok Sabha that 162 arms contracts worth Rs 1.33 lakh crore with Indian and foreign manufacturers were signed from 2...
- No end to jawans' wait for 1.86 lakh bullet-proof jacketsThe only silver lining is that the "emergency revenue procurement" of 50,000 jackets, approved as an operational urgency by defence ministe...
- Government to buy 7.60 lakh medals for soldiersThough much-delayed, the move to procure the 7.60 lakh medals for about Rs 28 crore is a welcome step since the basic ethos of soldiers rev...
- Suit up! How Indian parliamentarians have stuck to dress code and avoided controversiesGreece’s PM Alexis Tsipras famously always goes tieless – and when presented with one by Italy’s PM Matteo Renzi, promised to wear it when ...
- Top bureaucrats engage with government on Civil Services DayDuring the discussion on Civil Services Day on Thursday, where the country’s top bureaucrats were in attendance, secretary to the electroni...
- Government straightening system to promote investment: VK Singh"There are problems. Those problems basically come up because we have a straight-jacketed system in our bureaucratic deals which is where a...
- NDMC to construct 40 public toilets on PPP modeThe NDMC has deployed auto-tipper trucks to collect garbage from its residential and market areas. Mechanical sweepers are being used for c...
- Dress a little casual, but get the tone right, say Harvard professorsIt’s not just the style gurus who’re suggesting less starchy attire. Even Harvard professors say it’s better to dress a little casual—but m...
- Tough decisions await new Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis at MantralayaWith Shiv Sena not part of the government yet, and Fadnavis facing a floor test, it remains to be seen whether the BJP will be willing to p...
- Where was Adi Godrej spotted last Saturday?The industrialist was spotted on the wooden stairs at the Ballroom of Mumbai’s Yacht Club attending a private dinner with bureaucrats and i...
- Four Pak Army officers sacked for kickbacks in arms inspectionThe development became public when Col Iftikhar Ahmed Malik and Majors Awais Chaudhry, Tabassum Daud and Khurram Sheikh approached the cour...
- Mumbai blasts: Mumbai not equipped to tackle terror, says Prithviraj ChavanPrithviraj Chavan's contentious statement that the Congress should have retained the home department has sparked off a row in political cir...
- Power dressingWill anyone go so far as to deny themselves air-conditioned comfort?
- What use disclosing Pradhan report: SC"What is the use of disclosing it to public? says SC.
- Rajiv, Prabhakaran: Bound by ironyThe 18th anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination has been invested with a new significance - the man who ordered his killing is now dea...
- How well protected are the ones who protect?In the scuffle, an old question elbows its way out, yet again: Is the domestic police force adequately equipped to protect itself?
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