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Any appointment in the all-powerful Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is viewed with great interest. So, when P. Amudha, who belongs to the 1994 batch IAS from Tamil Nadu cadre, was appointed to the PMO as Joint Secretary on a lateral shift basis for the remainder...

After unveiling a raft of austerity measures earlier this month to meet the spiralling expenditures entailed by the fast-spreading Covid-19 pandemic, a cash-strapped state government has followed this up by cutting down this year’s Budget allocations under different heads. Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari had presented...

Maneka Gandhi Many years ago, I spoke to the Mercedes people in India and told them to stop using leather for their car seats. They didn’t ban it, but they made it optional. Now, the responsibility is on the buyers. Unfortunately, very few rich people...

Supreme Court advocate and PIL activist Prashant Bhushan is no ordinary man. Bhushan has been in the forefront of fighting many a legal battle based on public interest and earned a name over the past decade. Some years ago, he and his father Shanti Bhushan...

Hopefully, the long standing dispute over Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid will come to some kind of calming down on Wednesday, 5 August 2020. The issue of Ram Lala has been dragging for over a century and it has always taken the garb of politics more than...

Former RBI governor, Urjit Patel, has suddenly felt the need to explain the context in which he abruptly quit the post he held for less than three years, by end 2018. Patel has cited differences he had with the Modi government over handling of Non-Performing...

The prime minister will lay the foundation stone for the new Ram temple at Ayodhya. It is certain to be a grand ceremony as is the case with things we associate with our PM. It will happen on August 5, which will be the first...

The gold-smuggling racket unearthed in Kerala has created a major controversy and a senior IAS officer staring at the abrupt end of his once brilliant career in the civil service. At the centre of the episode is M Sivasankar, principal secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi...

Diesel prices have outstripped petrol prices in major metros of the country. In Odisha also, diesel is costlier than petrol – a never seen before scenario. Over last few days, state-run oil marketing companies have hiked diesel rates even as petrol prices remained more or...

A month ago, I received distress calls from people in Mumbai that the municipal commissioner had suddenly swooped down on a 20-year-old feeding platform (chabutra) for pigeons, which was on the side of the road in Khar, had covered it with plastic sheets and posted...